A cartoon published by the pro-settler Israel National News site appears to depict an IDF soldier as the Jewish child raising his hands in surrender in an iconic photograph from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
Pointing a loaded rifle, and a copy of the army’s rules of engagement, at the soldier is an Israeli authority figure — either government or military — who is equated with a Nazi officer.
Also equated with a Nazi officer is a Palestinian woman holding a slingshot.
Presumably, the cartoon is saying that the Israeli soldier, whose life is threatened by the slingshot, is being prevented by the Israeli authority figure from taking action to defend himself, through too-strict rules of engagement.
The cartoon comes in the wake of an incident in the West Bank Saturday that saw a group of Palestinian women grab on to an IDF soldier to keep him from arresting a Palestinian youth who threw stones.
A Facebook post with a cartoon published Sunday, August 30, 2015, by the news outlet Arutz 7 (screen capture)
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