Written by by Rafael Medoff at lidblog.com
One of America’s most beloved newspaper comic strips has dared to poke fun at Hamas. Get ready for controversy!
In the latest Sunday installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury strip, a fictional anti-terrorist fighter—known as “the Red Rascal”—bursts into the bedroom of an actual Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, who is living in Qatar.
The cartoon shows Haniyeh enjoying luxurious accommodations and identifies him as “one of three Hamas leaders worth billions, who enriched themselves with donor money intended for impoverished Gazans!”
One of America’s most beloved newspaper comic strips has dared to poke fun at Hamas. Get ready for controversy!
In the accommodations, he identifies him as “one of three Hamas leaders worth billions who enriched themselves with donor money intended for impoverished Gazans!”
Garry Trudeau, the writer and artist of Doonesbury, has dared to acknowledge a fact about the Hamas leadership that most of the mainstream news media prefer to ignore.
For years, leaders of the terrorist group have been stealing funds that the United States and other countries have generously donated for the needs of Gaza’s citizens. According to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Haniyeh is worth about $ 4 billion, making Hamas one of the wealthiest terrorist groups in the world. He and other Hamas leaders “have been photographed flying in private jets, enjoying fine dining, and attending international sporting events,” the FDD noted.
There also have been numerous reports of Hamas terrorists in Gaza stealing food, medicine, and other supplies that the international community has been sending to the territory.
This Doonesbury strip is even more interesting because Trudeau has been strongly critical of Israel. His view of Hamas is not motivated by any kind of built-in pro-Israel bias.