By O. Winter and E. Glass* 
 
Numerous cartoons recently published in the Arab press dealt with the Hamas takeover of Gaza.

Some of the cartoons condemned the brutal murders perpetrated by Hamas, implied that they have led the movement, as well as the Palestinian cause, to a dead end, and presented the fighting among the Palestinians as shocking and pointless. Others presented the civil war as the result of an American-Israeli plot carried out with the collaboration of Fatah. And one cartoon even depicted Gaza as an Iranian nuclear outpost.
 
To View Cartoons Regarding Hamas Brutality: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA36607 .

To View Cartoons Regarding Hamas Has Reached a Dead End: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA36607 .

To View Caartoons Regarding The Absurdity of the Palestinian Civil War: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA36607 .

To View Cartoons Regarding Conspiratorial Interpretations: The Palestinian Fighting as an American and/or Israeli Plot: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA36607 .

To View Carttons Regarding Gaza as an Iranian Nuclear Outpost: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA36607 .
 
*O. Winter and E. Glass are Research Fellows at MEMRI. 
 
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