Bibi's ACME bomb at UNGA inspires Israeli meme artists

[azurnoir]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (or should I say Bib E. Coyote?) had a lot of people worldwide holding their stomachs with laughter as he held his Looney Tune ACME bomb above the UNGA podium. The Israeli meme artists, as usual, were quick to respond.

http://972mag.com/bibis-acme-bomb-at-unga-inspires-israeli-meme-artists/56636/

[Iggy]

1. I've Been Suggesting

over on the twitter that Bibi's "atomic bomb" diagram was drawn by Boris Badenoff from
the Rock and Bullwinkle Show.

Unreal. he's getting nowhere with Obama... and rightfully so.

[bemildred]

2. Yep, that one is going to be around for a while.

Some of the facial expressions alone ...
And the bomb chart.

For some reason it makes me think of Eastwood's schtick, the use of feeble props I guess, so old school in the day of PowerPoint(R).

[azurnoir]

12. well it puts a new meaning to "detonator strategy" n/t

[bemildred]

15. Heh.

Sort of a concrete illustration, you might say.

[azurnoir]

20. yep however I like Bib E Coyote or Bib E Coyote' n/t

[oberliner]

3. As predicted here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=248341

[The Wizard]

4. Reminds me of

Colin Powell at the UN selling WMD with drawings of mobile weapons manufacturing trucks. How'd that work out?

[jdadd]

5. Here's another one....

[on point]

7. PERFECT rejoinder!!

Now if he would only fess up to having an atomic bomb and the world would set a red line for Israel (already crossed) that would be great!

[oberliner]

11. Maps are BS

The first map labels all these areas in green as "Palestinian land" in 1946 - but this was not at all true. In fact, all of the land was occupied at that time and controlled by the British.

To say that there was "Palestinian land" and "Jewish land" (not "Israeli land" but "Jewish land&quot is to render those terms as meaningless.

And, as most people know, the second map represents a proposal that was rejected by the Arab side - this configuration never actually existed.

This second map was how the colonial powers wished to divide Palestine between a "Jewish" and "Arab" state.

In the third map, there is a shift from "Jewish land" as a heading to "Israeli land" - but, there are actually lots of Palestinians who live in the white area. In fact, there were (and are) many Palestinian Israeli citizens.

Whereas the area in green was not "Palestinian land" by any definition between 1949-1967. The areas in green were, in fact, controlled by Jordan and Egypt.

[azurnoir]

21. agreed because today the only areas that are truly Palestinian land are Area A 18% of the West Bank

and Gaza, Area B 21% of the West Bank could be considered Palestinian land however it is under Israeli military control

[King_David]

18. Those 'maps'

Have been debunked many many times.

But yet are a favorite of some.

They should be called the 'Sam Bacile' maps.

[jdadd]

19. Thank you, I stand corrected.....

This was not my photo shop...I quickly snagged this from another site.

[nonoxy9]

6. Remember the last time cartoons were used at the UN to justify war?

Thanks General Powell! That one worked out great, too!

[tk2kewl]

8. My two faves

[progressoid]

9. Dr Strangelove

Perfect.

[tk2kewl]

10. yup

[azurnoir]

13. Bibi and the bomb: Buffoonery or clever tactics at the UN?

A few people commented that it looked as though it were drawn by Acme Cartoons and that it should have had the word BOOM!! drawn across it in red letters.

Netanyahu followed up by taking out a red marker and drawing a thick line at the 90 percent line – i.e., *this* was where the red line had to be drawn. Or else!

But even as people jeered on Twitter at the cartoonish diagram, Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller suggested that Bibi’s buffoonery might have disguised a clever tactic. Who, now, remembers the speech Mahmoud Abbas gave less than one hour earlier?

http://972mag.com/netanyahus-uses-diagram-of-irans-nuclear-process-to-illustrate-un-speech/56624/

well I don't know about the Abbas theory but it certainly has gotten attention

[bemildred]

16. Interesting thought.

Haaretz had a story about Bibi and Lieberman's "fury" about Abbas' speech.

I don't know what I think about the distraction idea, skeptical, but not sure it's wrong. It seems un-Bibi-like somehow, but I can't say how. His manner (Bibi) when he gave his speech bothers me, he seemed almost jovial.

[azurnoir]

22. His presentation was presumably showmanship

perhaps meant to put the audience at ease while speaking about starting what many see as a possible beginning of WW3

[oberliner]

23. Or attempting to avoid it

Depending on your perspective.

[azurnoir]

24. well Netanyahu is not stupid and he almost had to know that his bomb diagram

would be taken the way it was, he is I am sure no stranger to Warner Brothers cartoons as he spent a good deal of time in the US something backed up by his English which has an American accent and perhaps what could be called a presentation that had a humor angle to it was his method of showmanship, it all depends on presentation too

[oberliner]

25. I think he is pretty stupid

And I think his diagram was one of the stupider things he (or his people) has come up with.

In his mind, though, he believes by getting a "red line" he is helping to prevent WWIII.

[bemildred]

27. I think he was going through the motions, somewhat.

It seemed obvious to me that he was not taking it too seriously, like Eastwood and his chair. But we will wait and see what comes next.

[bemildred]

28. This is kind of how I see it:

http://www.politicususa.com/obama-plays-netanyahu-fiddle-romney.html

That piece is also posted in GD.

[azurnoir]

29. yes it is from the US perspective

but I think at home that Netanyahu doesn't exactly have the Israeli military establishment 100% on board with a military strike on Iran either not to mentiomn the Israeli public and Bibi is up for re-election soon too

[bemildred]

30. Quite.

I think Bibi's agenda now is domestic butt-covering, so I agree with that, but waiting for more evidence. Meanwhile, the reason for the necessity of domestic butt-covering was that he got stuffed by Obama and internationally, or anyway, that's my theory pending further input. Getting stuffed does not look good domestically, esp. getting stuffed by Obama. So yeah.

[oberliner]

17. A theory as dumb as the cartoon

You really do seem to be quite a fan of 972mag.

Lisa seems to be one of the dimmer contributors over there.

[Purveyor]

14. LOL. Thanks for posting. +1

[aquart]

26. First one is my favorite.

Perfect.

[hrmjustin]

31. +1