Jim Fitzpatrick’s update of his iconic screen print poster based on Korda‘s image of Che Guevara.
Jim writes:
“Like many of my Jewish friends I am deeply shocked by the slaughter in the Gaza ghetto of so many innocents…I am posting this new CHE image in solidarity with the people of occupied Palestine.”
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Bingo ! First appearance of ” some of my best friends ” in the current conflict.
Not really.
It’s not a conflict, it’s a slaughter. It’s not about Jewry, it’s about the criminal actions of Israelis.
Conflict –
‘A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one’
‘A serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests’…..It’s a conflict mate
It’s a war between two sides, there wouldn’t be a war without Hamas or other armed militias before them and there wouldn’t be a wall if it werent for the Intifadas…This whole one sided “slaughter” shite only works on retards
One of the best equipped and most sophisticated war machines in the world intentionally and repeatedly fires artillery ordinance into school playgrounds to kill little children seeking sanctuary from your “conflict”.
That, “mate”, is slaughter by any reasonable interpretation of the word.
Yes it is. But it takes place WITHIN a conflict/war .
grow up.
grow up indeed Boycott Israel, your populist propaganda is tiring and marks you out as a simpleton.
This simpleton has the capacity to think for himself, and is perfectly capable of recognising the difference between populist propaganda and the eviscerated remains of a child lying on a Gaza playground.
None of this would be going on if there was no Israeli EXPANSION. That is the problem and has been the problem since the first village was ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1947.
Israel needs to pull back and declare its borders. That IS the problem. Otherwise Israel will continue to wrongly justify its expansion and will do so until all Palestinians are removed from their land.
Everything else follows on from this. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring history and the expansion. Simple as.
See clampers, even of Israel did what you desired and what makes sense, it would require other parties to do their part that I don’t think they would.
If Israel defined it’s borders in the am, removed the blockade peace would not come. That is the sad reality
I agree Am I Still…. but some reversal on expansion is a MUST and is absolutely necessary or else Israel will continue it’s apartheid, and continue to kettle in Palestinians in Gaza and there’s only one reaction to that because there is nowhere to go, and that’s fight back.
Israel knows this, and by throwing their hands in the air and saying ‘they keep attacking us’, then they bomb and destroy more and the open prison gets smaller again.
Israel is doing this on purpose since 1948. And they will continue until all of Palestine is wiped out and the Palestinians are scattered like refugees without a homeland.
Planned, slow expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland, through any means necessary including ethnic cleansing. That’s what Israel is doing. That’s how I see it.
dude, when you start calling folks ‘retards’ then your point is null and void.
…strange, people deemed retards and simpletons were also exterminated by the nazis.
‘…current conflict’…we are going to need a bigger card to play hasbara bingo on your euphemisms for slaughter.
Of course its a bloody conflict. It might be a one sided one with plenty of careless barbarism thrown in but its a conflict.
Denying its not a conflict is PR Spinning as bad as any ‘hasbera’ that the world is apparently infected with.
Look, I’m sorry, but this is not a serious point. It is a conflict. It is also a slaughter. The two are not mutually exclusive. Taking issue with someone for calling it a conflict is not an argument that can be taken seriously. Expanding on the term to show the slaughter within the conflict would be acceptable. Just because you may be on the right is no excuse for lazy sloppiness.
..I agree Nigel but I am making a serious point and not merely indulging in semantics. The language of hasbara has the objective of playing down the horror of what has been inflicted on innocents in Gaza and there are some skilled exponents of it on Broadsheet.
I don’t have problem with challenging language that diminishes or deflects, God knows debates about this whole thing have always been rife with euphemisms, slurs and dog-whistles on both sides (including the term ‘on both sides’), but when you find yourself arguing that this isn’t a ‘conflict’ then you’ve made a misstep that will be gleefully capitalised upon. The word may not convey the full horror you wish to see expressed, but it doesn’t deny it, either.
This is fantastic. I had never heard the word ‘hasbera’ before a week ago.
Now they’re EVERYWHERE
the paranoia on show here is palpable and a little pathetic.
Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. What The Israeli government is doing is sickening but hamas are not Marxists.
I don’t understand what Che has to do with Palestine… The South American struggle was very different from what is happening in The Middle East…
The artist would then have to think for himself.
Or you would have to think about what the connections could be.
Nice little earner
Oy vey….. You may be interested to note that he released the Guevera image royalty free in the 60s. As in, he makes no money from it, and this is common knowledge. Like, common knowledge in the “everyone and their mother knows this” type common knowledge.
Yes and he mentions on several posts from yesterday that this poster is free and not to be sold by anyone.
well is was a rip off of a photo not an original image
(like the Obama HOPE print)
idiot
Not sure how a man who preached “confrontation, not compromise” is relevant to the situation in Gaza?
In fairness, that kind of does fit in with Hamas’s thinking.
Rebel rebel your face is a mess.
Jim you are an idiot. What you have produced is such an embarrassment . I do not know where to start . you are also one of those stupid idiots who says things like “deeply” shocked or “deeply” saddened or “deeply” offended. etc. the mark of a stupid idiot. Unless this Che thing is some king of post modern alternative comedy highlighting the naïve student mentality mixed with ignorance when it comes to history and world politics. But I doubt it . I also doubt you have any friends let alone Jewish friends.
I’m sure Jim will be crying into his cornflakes this morning that some anonymous poster on a website, who named himself after a children’s television show, has so eviscerated his work.
+1
Very mean.
Deeply mean.
Ah, the old Che graphic.. nothing used to boil my Cuban colleague’s blood more than idiot western liberals in their trendy Che t-shirts. The guy was no angel, to put it mildly – ask the locals.
But hey, cool shirt dude.
But they are happy to sell the tee shirt to westerners in Cuba all the same… ask the locals
They cry themselves to sleep at night though Sheila, it would be like you or I working in Carroll’s and selling only Leprechauns dolls.
And….. so long as the money is good, sounds like an breezy number. Gives one time for personal pursuits… where do I sign?
‘a’ damn it
Fie upon thy proletarian emendations! An breezy number it was, and an breezy number it shall remain.
Would that I could disinherit you twice.
Really? A revolutionary fighting in South America at the height of the cold war was not an angel? Get the hell out.
How about an Allah T shirt supporting Palestine…or a cartoon?
Wile E. Coyote comes to mind.
Or a cartoon with Allah …
How does Hamas ultimate goal of destroying Israel fit with Che Guevara? Ii it only genocide if the Jews defend themselves? You guys really need to get over your post colonial and Catholic indoctrination hang ups.
“You guys”? “your post colonial and Catholic indoctrination hang ups”? Where are you joining us from today, caller?
Hahahaha… another person ignoring the Israeli expansion. Israel created Hamas through land grabbing, apartheid and ill treatment of Palestinians. That much is a certainty.
Left wing socialism meets right wing theocracy. I like it!
Bizarre amalgam of images. If Che the Marxist was still alive and for some reason in the Gaza Strip, he would be chased out by Hamas, or worse. Just like they brutally purged Gaza of members of Fatah and other leftists.
Still Jim’s heart is in the right place. I suppose.
See how Hamas isn’t mentioned in the poster?
Israel aren’t bombing the West Bank.
Before the current conflict, Fatah were in control and maintaining a ceasefire and Hamas were increasingly sidelined. Thanks to this conflict, Hamas will almost certainly emerge in power with Fatah sidelined. Golf clap.
Jim the plagiarist still trying to be irrelevant and Broadsheet still censoring my comments to suit their agenda, that’s ok, I’m screen grabbing my posts and will file them for future use.
Looking forward to reading the first edition of “Baz – The Lost Comments”
‘The Ragewankening’
I’m sure Che would approve.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/latin-america-reacts-to-israels-massacre-in-gaza/194827/
Oh great, will you be putting them up on a blog or will you rent some gallery space?