How Many More?

A cartoon about lives more than numbers . . .

As the war in Gaza continues, Israel’s military campaign is looking more and more disproportionate every day.

Let me clarify: I’m using the word “disproportionate” the way it is used among regular humans, where one thing is not equal to another.

In the world of military strategists and experts in the laws of war, “proportionality” doesn’t really take into account the sheer numbers of deaths on either side of a conflict. (It’s pretty chilling, horrible stuff that sounds like it’s taken right out of Dr. Strangelove.)

Of course Hamas is evil and the October 7 attack involved acts of terrorism and war crimes, but how many Palestinians must die in what increasingly appears to be an incredibly asymmetrical war of revenge.

Is the Israeli government’s end goal to wipe out Hamas . . . and wipe Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip while they’re at it? (“Population transfer” it is euphemistically called.)

Unfortunately, that is not a rhetorical question, it’s an actual thing that is being discussed by people in Israel’s government.

Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of the term “blowback.”

Meanwhile, since I posted my earlier drawing . . .

. . . there is more outrage about journalists getting killed by the Israeli military.

These deaths are sure starting to look a lot more like assassinations than *only* collateral damage.

Thanks for watching the animation and digging deeper into some of the vitally important awfulness with me.

Doing a cartoon about all this misery really makes me want to do a cartoon that pokes fun at a silly buffoon.

See you back here shortly!