More on Cartoon War II
Israel’s ambassador to Norway, the disagreeable Miryam Shomrat, continues her campaign to stir up outrage over a satirical cartoon in the Oslo tabloid Dagbladet. As I noted in a previous post, she has filed a complaint with the Norwegian Press Trade Committee, claiming that the cartoon — which portrays Ehud Olmert as a smiling Amon Göth from Schindler’s List — exceeds the limits of free speech. Now the ambassador makes her case in the New York Sun:
Is it a crime for a European paper to be critical of Israel? Did Der Stürmer come out in 1956? And lastly, who is now making tasteless comparisons?
Israel’s objection to freedom of expression in another country is nothing like the Muhammed protest because Israel is fighting a war? Since the New York Sun can hardly be suspected of anti-Israel bias, presumably the ambassador is accurately quoted. And it boggles the mind.
Israel used to be adept at propaganda as well as war. What went wrong?
