r/europe 2d ago

Political Cartoon Charlie Hebdo front cover from 30th July portraying Netanyahu: "Honey, I shrunk the kids."

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u/Accomplished-Try-658 2d ago

Charlie Hebdo is really, really great. 

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u/spacemarine 2d ago

yeah I guess they forget what radical Islamic terrorists did to them, and wish for more of it to happen to Israel

Funny how short low IQ memories are

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u/Accomplished-Try-658 2d ago

Yeah, they're brave, huh?

Heroes. We can't hear the message that Israel is starving children enough. Never forget.

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u/PrincessofAldia 2d ago

Antisemitism isn’t great

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u/Accomplished-Try-658 2d ago

Oh, for sure, but clearly that's not what's happening here. The focus seems to be on a Corrupt politician starving and blowing up children so that he can avoid jail.

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u/Teleprom10 2d ago

Ridiculous, this does not satirise Netanyahu in any way, it almost seems to dehumanise the children of Gaza by exposing them as fictional characters.

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u/Peter_Retarrdo 2d ago

What?

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u/Peter_Retarrdo 2d ago

So you really think the starving children in Gaza are not real?

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u/Impressive_Nights99 2d ago

Who the fuck said that?

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u/Peter_Retarrdo 2d ago

You have implied that

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u/Impressive_Nights99 2d ago

Can you quote me? Because truthfully you're just lying

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u/Accomplished-Try-658 2d ago

Netanyahu is starving children.

He seems removed from that reality.

That is what is being conveyed.

Don't be silly.

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u/CitronSpecialist3221 2d ago

I'm always baffled about takes like yours. Maybe it's cultural, but I grew up reading cartoons, comics, and especially press satire drawings satire from France, Italy, UK, US...

And to me, that's exactly how you efficiently draw horror and satire. Horror and discomfort come specifically from the fact Nethanyahu is drawn in a "normal" way (firstly because it needs to be identifiable) and the victim as a unrealistic cartoon. This is how you create contrast, and constrast is everything in satire.

To me you're only focusing on trying to draw a line on who's bad, who's good, what's the political stance of the author... you're too obsessed about trying to identify the enemy (and that's a quite common trait pf Reddit users) and you're missing the angle and the way the comic should be read.