Jeff Danziger for November 28, 2023

It’s all a game at some level. Horrible level.

It’s fair to point out that both are to blame. Maybe the blame isn’t equal, but no one has clean hands. Not that Israel needed to respond. – They did. Just an ugly ugly situation.

Its sad this would it has come to

There should be other countries in this cartoon — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt.

The surrounding Arab countries do everything they can to keep Palestinians in a perpetual poverty stricken refugee status with a burning hatred of Israel. It is also vital to Hamas’ interests.

Also in Bibi’s interests.

I’m heartsick over this.

So, we’re little more that “playthings for the gods”?

The game cannot be played if one of the players is no longer around.

Religion brings peace and brotherhood —NOT!

For example:

“… America is easily the most religious among the wealthy democracies; weekly church attendance is higher than Europe. If religion brought safety and a crime-free country, America should be the safest.

It is not.

Rather, we are the only country where these kinds of mass shootings occur on a frequent basis. As the Washington Post’s Paul Waldman put it, “[If] the United States is simultaneously the most religious wealthy country and the most violent, a lack of religion clearly isn’t our problem.”

Nick Fish of American Atheists compiled a scattergram comparing church attendance and gun violence using the CDC’s firearm mortality rates and weekly church attendance statistics from Pew Research.

As shown, the higher the weekly church attendance, the higher the firearm mortality rates. Senator Gray’s admonition would result in more firearm deaths, not less. …" — >

Hamas is trading innocent civilians they took hostage. Israel is trading terrorists they arrested for attempted murder and inciting violence. The comparison is sickening.

When two mad dogs are fighting it out on the streets, I do not feel called upon to take a side.

It has always been like this. The saddest part, for me anyway, is that it likely always will be.

theoretical question who would come to Iran’s defense if somebody bombed it out of existence

I’m not condoning everything Israel does, far from it, but I don’t believe there’s a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel, as this cartoon seems to imply.

Israel isn’t laying the bodies of their own civilians on the board.

You can put any two farmers from any country or culture in the same room and they will get along fine. Same with any two artists, or athletes, or scholars, or truck drivers, or scientists, or accountants. Put any two religious people or politicians together and they will fight to the death.

Very accurate

Unfortunately, innocent civilians are played by all sides.

One word, one picture. Can’t do it any better than that. Outstanding!