Ted Rall is in the P-I.
On the P-I's editorial page is this Ted Rall cartoon which implies that suicide bombing is caused by impolite Israelis and checkpoints. First of all, the checkpoints are there for no other reason than to stop the terrorists, who happen to predate the checkpoints. Not to mention that none of the people who blew themselves up and murdered innocent people at the synagogues and British bank in Istanbul, or the police stations in Baghdad, or the American embassy in Dar es Salaam are even Palestinian or have ever been to an Israeli checkpoint.
Nevertheless, this cartoon passes the P-I's editorial standards for information and/or entertainment value. Just another fairytale, a little sicker than the other fairytales that regularly appear on the P-I's editorial page.
Perhaps that should be the "fairytarial page".
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 22, 2003 02:20 PM