Posted By: paul durkin  on Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Enjoy all your G W cartoons. Have 2 ideas for G W cartoons, but do not know how to contact anyone in this field save this "method" of contact.



paul durkin

Posted By: Cal Wellander  on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Cal, it sounds to like the gangs you are discribing are the land hungry israelis, with their Hi Tech weapons supplied by our government for the profit of defence contractors and paid for by the tax payers of the United States.  If the israelis would move back into the land that was givin them, stop building new settlements on land stolen from the Palestinians, stop building impassable walls separating the Palestinians from their farms, knocking down their homes and start treating the Palestinians with respect all people deserve, there might be a chance of peace.  I don't think the israelis will be satisfide until they occupy the hole Middle East.  Between this mess and bush/cheney attacking Iraq because they said Iraq had WMD's, which by the way were never found, it's no wonder to me that the whole Arab world now hates us and we are viewed by many other countries as one of the biggest threats to world peace.  I'm Seventy years old now and can remember when we had friends and were respected around the world.  My wife passed away last Sept. and I hope I can join her soon so I won't have to watch what is happening to our once proud United States of America.

          Sincerely, Cal W

Posted By: Wanda Hawkins  on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Excellent picture of reality!  I wonder how many starving, wounded, repressed, little people they had to walk on and step over to get to the conference?  I didn't hear anything about that in Bush's speeches - did I miss that part?



Keep up the good work!!!

Posted By: Steve D.  on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

A paramount issue in the Middle East making lasting peace difficult actually vindicates our founding fathers wisdom of codifying separation of Church and State.  This allows law to be written and rewritten by educated citizens, rather than following law written long ago by people who believed the world was flat and at the center of a small and young universe.  Those who would integrate these ancient religious beliefs into our government institutions should take note of what life is really like in a religious republic, be it of any faith or sect.  

Posted By: Debillo  on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

To simplify matters, how about this? Just have a plentiful buffet in which none of the attendees will partake. Isn't this what we're talking about here?... You can lead them to the buffet, but you can't make 'em eat what you offer them.

Posted By: Glynn Holleran  on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

I preume the article which followed this cartoon was written by someone who has been living in a bunker since the 40's with only Likud campaign literature to read. Pieces of Israel? The author has obviously not been there or maybe subscribes to teh view that God gave this and that never changes. Being from celtic origin I have often wanted to have paris and London! Religious states either muslim or jewish or Hindu or christian are by definition based on a concept of superiority and teh resuklt is always teh repression of other. the arabs did not want a foreign country in thier midst this is waht iosrael is. The Disapora produced foreigneers with teh same religion but hey my ancsetors lost control of europe too !

God gave the Jews this place according to the Jews. There are more second opinions that maybe the world has moved on from tribal gods to a life approach based on compassion and humanity.

maybe if Bush  and the Arabs did not fund the bombs there would be fewer bombs

Posted By: Manny  on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

If I was Israel I would not give up a single square meter of land.

Posted By: Delta  on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Israel won battles that were meant to destroy it from people who surrounded this tiny country.  The thing of it is, Israel beat attacks from Jordan to win back Judea and Samaria and all of Jerusalem.  Israel beat attacks from Syria to win the Golan.  It beat Egypt to win the Sinai Penninsula and the Gaza Strip.   According to the media spin of the past years, Israel has been "occupying Palestinian land".  How is this when the land outside of the Auschwitz borders was in the hands of Jordan and Egypt???



Cal Thomas makes very good points.



Btw, since Jordan took 87 percent of what was formerly Palestine, and since Arafat started out demanding land from Jordan - how come no one is trying to pressure Jordan for land for a Palestinian state?  There are miles upon miles of land there.

Posted By: jerry  on Thursday, November 29, 2007

Funny thing, there never was a palestinian nationality until Arafat created on in 1964. Roman province, Caliphate province, Ottoman province, UN mandatory area.  If you read history, most references to "palestine" pre-1948 usually referred to the Jews in Palestine, the Jewish Palestinian Brigades (WWII), etc.  So called Palestine was an unwanted, backwater province under Arab rule for nearly 1500 years.    The UN mandate which became Israel was the final result of an Arab started war (6 armies) to destroy the UN mandated partitian and with two miniature statelets.  Oil politics changed the idea of who "palestinians" for good after the 1967 war.  Israel didn't want the west bank or Gaza in 1967-8 either.  However, neither jordan nor egypt wanted them back.  If no one wants peace except on the condition of one party being destroyed and thrown into the sea (jews of course), any peace settlement (if enacted) will only last until an Arab nation thinks Israel can be destroyed.  The only thing not offered to date on a platter is Israel itself.  Boy, W needs good publicity badly!!!!