07-18-2016, 06:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2016, 06:42 PM by Anthony '58.)
PLO?
In the wake of the Achille Lauro affair, the popular, if sick, joke was that "PLO" stood for "Push Leon (Klinghoffer) Overboard."
More seriously, we really have come a long way from arch-liberal Herbert Block, aka "Herblock," and his Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon showing a stereotypical - and, as I recall vividly, decidedly androgynous - figure representing Israel with his back turned toward the edge of a cliff and an even more stereotypical Arab figure telling him, "Back off first and we'll negotiate later."
In the wake of the Achille Lauro affair, the popular, if sick, joke was that "PLO" stood for "Push Leon (Klinghoffer) Overboard."
More seriously, we really have come a long way from arch-liberal Herbert Block, aka "Herblock," and his Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon showing a stereotypical - and, as I recall vividly, decidedly androgynous - figure representing Israel with his back turned toward the edge of a cliff and an even more stereotypical Arab figure telling him, "Back off first and we'll negotiate later."
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892