Because it's Friday afternoon...

Gregg Carlstrom | November 20, 2009 4:38 PM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

I was looking for a cartoon to post, mostly because it's Friday afternoon and I've got nothing better to write about. That turned into a surprisingly tough job: The major Arabic papers were on an anti-Semitic cartoon kick this week. (This one from Al-Hayat is pretty representative.) Tells you something about how the Gilo settlement expansion is perceived in the Arab world.

So I settled on this one, from Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, about Iran's nuclear program. The Arabic in the top-right corner says "Iran's Nuclear Reactor."

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Iran cartoon

Also, not a cartoon, but cartoonish: The Tehran city council plans to open "laughter workshops" to "relieve tension" in the capital. So many jokes I could make here; so many jokes...

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