This past Sunday’s (May 23, Page D3) editorial cartoon by Christopher Weyant of The Boston Globe represented a defamatory lie, fueling misperception and hostility toward Israel and Jews. It showed an Israeli tank crushing a Palestinian and an Arab woman nearby reading a message suggesting that Israel’s goal is to build “the state of Israel” on top of Gaza.

Hamas, the terrorist organization that initiated this recent conflict, is the group whose objective explicitly is to expand its Islamist enclave on the Jewish bodies of all Israelis and to totally destroy the Jewish state. This is announced daily by Hamas, and their genocidal intent can be found in its charter.

In 2005, Israel evacuated every Jew, living and dead, from Gaza, and handed it over to the Palestinians, who trashed business structures that could have provided businesses, jobs and income for them.

Israel did not carpet bomb – as the cartoon suggests – and did give warnings of their response to Hamas’ indiscriminate bombing of civilian centers both in Israel and Gaza. Phone calls and leaflets were made and distributed by the Israelis to Palestinian civilians warning of their responding attack.

It is understood that cartoons often exaggerate in order to prove a point; however, no Israeli tanks invaded Gaza, nor were any Palestinians crushed by tanks.

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