Netanyahu lashes out at Iran for 'mocking' Holocaust in cartoon contest

[MariaThinks]

Source: The Guardian

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during the second world war. The Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one, he said.

A State Department spokesman, traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry in Saudi Arabia, expressed US concern about the contest, saying it should be “condemned by the authorities and civil society leaders rather than encouraged”.

Iran has long backed armed groups committed to Israel’s destruction and its leaders have called for it to be wiped off the map. Israel fears that Iran’s nuclear program is designed to threaten its very existence.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/15/netanyahu-iran-cartoon-contest-mocks-holocaust

[BillZBubb]

1. Iran did it in response to cartoons mocking Allah. Netanyahu didn't object then.

There are loons on both sides of this behavior.

[iandhr]

2. The extermination of six million people...

... doesn't compare to a cartoon making fun of religion.

[MariaThinks]

3. thanks for pointing that out for the terrorist apologists

6 million people killed.

cartoon.

how can anyone equate the two?

[skepticscott]

6. Muslims have killed more people over cartoons

that offend their religious sensibilities than Jews will kill people over this contest. Which should tell people something about religion, and about Islam in general.

[MariaThinks]

7. agreed and telling

[romanic]

11. +1

I agree completely.

[youceyec]

8. some

might argue with your assertion that the prophet Muhammad was a terrorist. Actually, I have 1.5 Billion friends that would.

[MariaThinks]

9. nice escalation there. So you're saying all think exactly like that?

1. only Islam is the true religion.
2. gay people should be killed
3. people leaving islam should be killed
4. adulterers should be stoned to death.

are these the beliefs of 1.5 billion of your friends.

[leftynyc]

19. Perhaps you can point

out where the poster called muhammad a terrorist. It sure wasn't in the post you were responding to.

[Redwoods Red]

17. Cartoon is cartoon.

No Iranian cartoon killed six million people.

Isn't it odd that a cartoon that offends Muslims must be defended, but one that offends Jews must be decried.

It's like "freedom to offend for me, but not for thee."

I think both sets of cartoons are pretty damned tacky and I wish people wouldn't do that, but some of these people are their high horses are being hypocritical.

[iandhr]

20. The big difference is

When someone draws a cartoon that offend Muslims people are murdered. That doesn't happen with anyone else.

[leftynyc]

34. You don't see anyone here

saying either cartoon is okay - that's quite simply a LIE. What we are pointing out is that only one side feels justified in KILLING the cartoonist for being insulting. I know that's an inconvenient fact but it's time to suck it up because it's the truth.

[BillZBubb]

21. Not to you. But, just maybe to Muslims it does.

Christians used to burn people for far less.

[leftynyc]

18. Let's compare how

many people Muslims have killed because of a fucking cartoon versus Jews who have killed because of a holocaust denying cartoon. There is no comparison and shame on you for trying to create one.

[BillZBubb]

22. To them mocking Allah is the ultimate evil. To you it is something else.

That's the reason the Iranians chose the Holocaust--to make that point.

[leftynyc]

25. And still

NOBODY is killed for mocking the holocaust. You're making my point for me but don't seem to realize it and the Iranians are only proving that being insulted isn't a cause to kill someone - not what they were expecting.

[6chars]

27. Iran's leader also leads chants of Death to Israel

and they are always talking about annihilating Israel and actually write that on their new intercontinental missiles we are funding. and they fund continually terrorists to kill Jews etc. So at least they put their money where their mouth is.

[sulphurdunn]

4. The really dangerous part of this Iranian stupidity

is that such use of the Holocaust gives the Israelis cover in their oppression of the Palestinians and aides the American Israeli lobby with further pretext to become even more hyperbolic and hysterical in its attempt to push the US into war with Iran.

[StoneCarver]

5. Why can't Israel just return to its borders

And the US just stand behind Israel? For Gods sake we both have nuclear weapons! There is no chance Israel will disappear In the next 50 years.
Stonecarver

[McKim]

10. Amen

Amen to that. If only Israel and its supporters in the US would spend their energy solving the problems in Israel and helping the Palestinians, instead of spending all that money, time and energy justifying their oppression of their neighbors, oppressing and bombing their neighbors and blaming and name calling against anyone who defends the Palestinians, we would all be better off!

[leftynyc]

35. If only the Palestinians

would prove they have any interest whatsoever in peace, you would have a point. Given what happened when they were given a state in 1947 (war) and when they unilaterally pulled out of Gaza (more violence), you don't have a leg to stand on in whining about Israel not trusting the Palestinians. You know when we'd all be better off? When Palestinians denounce violence and sit down with the Israeli's to hammer out an agreement (that they should have accepted 68 years ago).

[DavidDvorkin]

13. What the hell does this have to do with Iran's Holocaust denial?

[6chars]

28. The armistice line was peaceful for Israel before 1967

(The Arabs refused to recognize them as borders, though)

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Isn't it amazing?!

An OP about a Holocaust "cartoon" contest devolves into finger-wagging and tut-tuts for Israel, but mocking the Holocaust, not so much. This is a prime example of how anti-Semitism and "criticism" of Israel get conflated, but doesn't get confronted because it isn't Jews doing the conflating.

[BillZBubb]

24. Mocking the Holocaust is disgusting and outrageous.

I certainly don't like what Iran has done. But, take off your pro-Israeli blinders and maybe you can see that's why they did it. Muslims consider cartoons mocking Allah in the same light. How better to retaliate than to choose something the West considers appalling? Israel was not the target of this stunt although the subject matter rightly disturbs them the most.

Netanyahu is a boob. He should have been in the forefront of those denouncing the mocking of Allah. That would have been good for Israel. And then he'd have some grounds to complain about this.

[Behind the Aegis]

26. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

This has NOTHING to do with "pro-Israeli blinders", that would be your department, except not the "pro" part. How about they "mock" Apartheid? Slavery? Freedoms of the Press? You know, offenses to or Western values. No, the Holocaust is chosen for a very specific reason and if you think it is because they consider depictions of Mohammad (not Allah) equal to the Holocaust in terms of "mockery", then the issue lies with them and their defenders, and I am not talking about the 'general' ones, those like me who defend the right to do it, but those who find "parallels."

Who gives a shit what Netanyahu should have done. I can guarantee, had he done what you said, he still would have been pilloried, so what would be the point? I find this contest to be actually disgusting, not because it is PC or because it "scores" points as being something I am not.

[BillZBubb]

29. I give a lot of shit about what Netanyahu should have done.

Israel's overall situation would be far better if the Likud and fools like him never existed.

[Behind the Aegis]

31. Of course you do.

That was the point of my original post. That is the primary concern for those like you, not the actual mockery of the Holocaust.

[BillZBubb]

33. Well gosh aren't you smart! Netanyahu was named in the OP.

So of course his idiocy plays a part.

[Behind the Aegis]

36. "plays a part"

Notice any other words in the headline?

[6chars]

30. what is this about mocking Allah?

do you mean mocking Muhammed? I don't think they are the same person.

[Archae]

14. I don't agree with Netanyahu a lot of the time, but on this he's 100% correct.

This is just one of the stupid "cartoons" being shown in Iran:

[Angel Martin]

15. if Iran was making threats of extermination,

and joking about it, against some leftist darling country...

all those on this board who mock the danger of a nuclear Iran would be screaming for instant war

[BillZBubb]

23. Nonsense.

Most people on this board wouldn't scream for war in any situation short of a direct attack on the US. And even then, with reservations.

[6chars]

32. Is this your response to his not liking the cartoon contest?

[leftynyc]

37. How predictable

that so many of you ignore this repulsive contest and put the onus on the leader of Israel. Pathetically predictable for the far left. Thankfully the vast majority of Americans AND Democrats know better.