Comments on: If Jews were suicide bombers

By: Rose Morrow

Rose Morrow — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:16:07 +0000

satiric – satirical: “exposing human folly to ridicule; ”

satirist – “a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm”

Satir – “The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it”

“Satire is a mode of discourse or genre defined by its use of irony, sarcasm, or ridicule for mocking, exposing or denouncing the frailties and faults of mankind”

By: jp

jp — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:21:36 +0000

Ha, what is more telling than the article is the comments that have followed it. Firstly their is this weird support for people who strap a bomb to themselves, get on a bus, or enter a crowded market or restaurant with the intent on killing, maining and injuring as many innocent people as possible. In fact rather than condemning this atrocious act, they attack israel. Which leads me onto my second point. What does Israel have to do with any of this? Besides the fact the Yasser Arafat, and the second intifada made suicide attacks more famous than most. Just the other day over 200 people were killed or injured in a suicide attack in a market in Pakistan. There is a suicide attack every little while in Iraq. In fact there have been suicide attacks in places like London.

And then I suppose since the first real use of it as a tactic in Sri Lanka, how many have been Jewish. Not very many I would think, I Traps is just giving us the reasoning.

PS. Masada was not a suicide attack it was a suicide defence. The choice being living, enslaved, or being put to death by the Romans, or killing oneself (and obody else) and there is huge debate amongst different thought trains if what they did was right or wrong.

By: Joy-Mari Cloete

Joy-Mari Cloete — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:38:20 +0000

How is this satire?

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:09:20 +0000

Poor woman having to lose her baby while Ju-hus laugh at her. Sad, very sad.
But that ordeal, does it really justify her being a suicide bomber??

Oh my, then Mandiba would never have been a hero. We know why Mandela is an icon, a leader to reckon. He did the opposite.
Am hungry right now, and very broke, pay day is daysto come, does it give me a right to kill this s*n of b*itch eating McDonalds burger infront of me or even shoplift ?

Hey, Traps, good journalism.

By: Johannes van Eeden

Johannes van Eeden — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:07:35 +0000

You should make a difference between Jew and Isreali as you should make a difference between Muslim and Palistines. The one is not neccessarily the other and though it is forbidden for both Jews and Muslims to commit suicide, we find numerous examples of both in history. Any person(or group) can be driven to horendous deeds if prevoked hard and long enough.

By: Rose Morrow

Rose Morrow — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:45:04 +0000

This is cute and amusing although it’s a bit uncomfortable “joking” around so serious a matter. I guess we can’t take ourselves too seriously though. Zapiro is the master of the art of satire and that is the page I turn to first when I get the Mail & Guardian on Friday and often find myself having one or two sneak previews through the week! The Israeli / Palestinian situation is really difficult even if you live there – outsiders are further disadvantaged since we are at the mercy of journalists and commentators for information which is often unreliable and biased. From most accounts, the Goldstone report is objective and fair and in this regard it bothers me that most pro-Israeli groups have simply discounted it as biased against Israel, ill informed and unfair which is just ridiculous given the credentials of Justice Richard Goldstone, not to mention the fact that he is himself Jewish. Generally my sympathies are strongly with the Palestinians – there are just too many sharp reminders of SA’s cruel apartheid days-even the propaganda put out on a regular basis by various Israeli authorities touches a raw spot and sets the alarm bells ringing. That said, I despise any indiscriminate violent operation that kills, maims or injures children and innocent people – there is no justification or excuse – if you have to employ violent methods which are sometimes necessary, aim them against the military, not civilians.

By: MuAfrika

MuAfrika — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:11:05 +0000

Its in line with the Richmark Sentinels view of the world…Am not suprised for someone who drinks in the same pot with Bullard

By: brigs

brigs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:24:25 +0000

Thanks traps you had me rolling on the floor in hysterical laughter. I needed that today

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By: RM

RM — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:09:32 +0000

Very amusing. A pity that people are taking it so seriously!