The full translation of the headline is the following.

"The Independent: Israel targets the fetuses in the wombs."

I assume the British Independent is meant. The cartoon cannot be attributed solely to the Arabic media or to ash-Sharq.

In any case, Zionist thieves and interlopers are waging a particularly dirty demographic war against the native population of Palestine as the toll on Palestinian women and children shows.

I have watched IDF use Palestinian children for target practice in Rafah. As a foreign observer at checkpoints, I have complained about the brutalization of Palestinian women. The abuse is almost invariably much worse when a Palestinian woman is obviously pregnant.

When I first saw such IDF behavior, I recalled scenes of death camp selection that I saw in Holocaust movies.

If a Palestinian woman has pregnancy complications at a checkpoint, it is for all intents and purposes a death sentence.

The cartoon is completely fair and can only be considered anti-Semitic if one believes that Jews have the right to kill non-Jews with impunity.

That is complete baloney, sir. I'm not sure which is worse: the cartoon or the attempt to justify it and claim it isn't racist, bigoted and guaranteed to incite yet more violence.

Your comments mangle the reality of the situation, which is that the checkpoints and other security measures evolved in response to brutal terrorism - shootings (including the murders of pregnant women and children, a baby in her father's arms, the murders of families in their homes) - not to mention suicide bombings, knifings, beatings, lynchings, rocket attacks - in short, the glories of "the resistance," whose tactics openly and even with religious justification deliberately target Israeli civilians.

The tragedy that innocent Palestinians are harmed by the checkpoints and other security measures doesn't obviate the fact that EVERY DAY bombs and other threats are thwarted by them and often women and children are used as weapons. Ambulances have been used to smuggle both weapons and fighters.

Perhaps you have a solution to this problem instead of just flinging mud?

Your attempt to justify this incitement, in itself a major part of the problem - not just recently but for many decades - is simply appalling.

These smears are compounded by the fact that Israeli physicians risk their lives, often coming under fire, to try and help Palestinian children in Gaza, where medical facilities can't cope with serious heart ailments, and even wounded Hamas members have been treated in Israeli hospitals.

Shame on you.

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