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Lorraine DiBattista's avatar

What do you mean? The final cartoon and video is on the way? I've enjoyed your works for years. I hope you just mean this cartoon piece. You are very loved, Mark.🥰

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Mark Fiore's avatar

Hahah, I should have said "finished" cartoon. Hopefully the final cartoon won't happen for many years. Thanks so much, Lorraine 😃❤️

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Ezekiel Detroit's avatar

Sloan B., That is a sane solution. It does not meet Hamas definition. Their solution is to kill all Jews in Israel. Terrorists do not think like typical westerners. If they die, they just go to paradise where women will serve them. No big deal to die. Hostages are now their property to be their slaves. It is written. Catch my drift?

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

I understand your drift completely.

Hamas views all of its subjects killed by Israel as martyrs sent straight to Allah, so no big deal. Hamas’s original charter called for the destruction of Israel. Hamas' “amended” charter praises Islam as a peace-loving religion and does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. Sinwar spent a long time in prison in Israel, and he figured out there was no way Hamas could defeat Israel militarily, and after he got out of that prison he switched the defeating Israel, and its benefactor America, in the court of public opinion, and he designed an attack that he hoped would cause Israel to do precisely what it did in Gaza, to paint Israel as a modern Nazi Germany, and smear America, and Israel took the bait and America sided with Israel and here we are.

I know Israel did plenty to provoke Islam in the past, taking land, and taking land, and wars in Gaza and the West Bank, and Israel does not have clean hands, and it, too, is run by religious fanatics, who claim God is on their side. President Biden should have cut off money and munitions to Israel months ago. But I live in Alabama, which is very red, and I know the America religious right back Israel all the way, (a) because their Bible says God promised Israel that land, even though they ignore the Israelites turned their back on God many times, and (b) they hope Israel will kill very Muslim in the Middle East, and they would’t mind Israel using its nukes to to it.

It’s a really screwed up mess, thanks to religion, and God has nothing to do with it. If Trump is elected this year, his base won’t let him abandon Israel. It’s s shame all the nice Christians in America did not allow the WWII Jewish refugees resettle in America. If that had happened, maybe there would be no Israel today. As long as Israel exists, there will be strife in Palestine. All predicted in Genesis when God told Abraham that Ishmael’s seed would become a great nation and would cause Issac’s seed (Israelites) trouble. Islam views Ishmael as the promised child, and radical Islam views that part of Genesis,, which is in the Koran, as a mandate from God to cause Isaac’s seed trouble. Alll of that is in the Bibles Trump is selling :-)

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

Gaza mayhem is horrible. I think if HAMAs cared about its subjects in Gaza, months ago it would have offered to release all of its Oct 7 hostages, if Israel agreed to leave Gaza alone for so long as HAMAs left Israel alone.

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