Here are the words of Ian Thal, regarding the cartoon linked in the Vermonters for a Just Peace website in my August 14th post. He added them as a comment, but many readers may not see them there, so I am pulling them up into my post for today:
“While there are mountains of evidence for the murdered Jews, there is no evidence for “six million Palestinians ethnically cleansed, dispossessed, mudered, and humiliated. ” The official U.N. refugee count is about 711,000 and their refugee status is generally agreed upon to be caused primarily by the Arab invasion of Israel, and not out of an ethnic cleansing campaign, and only about 40,000 were deported by Israel.

There are real statistics and real facts that people who are truly sympathetic with the Palestinians could and should cite, but people who cite lies care more about creating anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic sentiment than actually improving the plight of the Palestinians.” The bottom image is layer four on the still life which has been evolving this week, based on Tad’s comments of yesterday. Today I’ll work more on the background to make this “true to life.” The edges of the flower were lost yesterday because of background work. I’ll regain these this afternoon.

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