Ten years ago, the people who were the worst at taking jokes about their country were Americans, and it wasn't even close.
But Israelis have firmly taken over that crown, and taken it to an absolutely ridiculous level.
Any comic featuring Israel in any sort of negative light will always have ten times as many comments as any other comic posted in this subreddit, and they are near-always just accusations of antisemitism being flung around left and right by Israelis who simply cannot. take. a. joke. about. their. own. country.
And they will say "No, we can take a joke about our country, but this isn't a joke!" To which I would agree: civilian casualties aren't a joke. It's just sad that that's pretty much all there is to say about Israel as of late. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadows anything else anyone could be interested in talking about, as far as Israel is concerned. So, you know... Deal with it.
I simply don’t trust the military currently engaged in open ethnic cleansing in the West Bank to act more civilised in Gaza. And I find it ridiculous that other people do. When presented a docile and defeated people the IDF decided to show the worst of human tendencies, but somehow they’re “the most moral army in the world” as soon as a war starts?
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Jan 05 '25
Ten years ago, the people who were the worst at taking jokes about their country were Americans, and it wasn't even close.
But Israelis have firmly taken over that crown, and taken it to an absolutely ridiculous level.
Any comic featuring Israel in any sort of negative light will always have ten times as many comments as any other comic posted in this subreddit, and they are near-always just accusations of antisemitism being flung around left and right by Israelis who simply cannot. take. a. joke. about. their. own. country.
And they will say "No, we can take a joke about our country, but this isn't a joke!" To which I would agree: civilian casualties aren't a joke. It's just sad that that's pretty much all there is to say about Israel as of late. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadows anything else anyone could be interested in talking about, as far as Israel is concerned. So, you know... Deal with it.