The Arab world has been absorbing attacks from Iran in recent days, but found time to feature Prime Minister Netanyahu again. In a cartoon published in Qatari media, they chose to criticize the prime minister regarding the escalation between the U.S. and Iran—and this time, it seems the Arab world is jealous of Netanyahu.
21st-century Arab media loves using political cartoons. Many Arab news sites maintain entire pages dedicated to cartoons on various topics. The figures appearing in the cartoons are typically those making headlines, but one figure keeps returning to Arab illustrations again and again—Prime Minister Netanyahu.
After being upset about six months ago by the Indian prime minister’s visit to Israel and the signing of agreements between the countries, this time the Arab world appears jealous of Netanyahu. In the new cartoon published in the Qatari newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, the prime minister is shown sitting in a comfortable chair while Iranian and American missiles fly around him without hitting him.
The cartoon’s purpose is obviously to illustrate how, while Arab states have been suffering daily Iranian attacks over the past two weeks, the ayatollah regime appears afraid to launch any threat toward Israel. So essentially, the regional war simply isn’t felt in Israel at all.
This cartoon continues the recurring criticism lately across all Arab media. Just last week, Egyptian media figure Ahmed Moussa delivered an angry monologue in which he raged at Iran, a Muslim country, for attacking its Muslim sisters while being afraid to attack Israel.