The story of the exploding pagers and how they wreaked absolute havoc on Hezbollah terrorists last week will be studied, analyzed, and debated long after anyone reading this is gone.
“The attack on the militant and political group Hezbollah via exploding pagers and walkie-talkies this week, widely believed to be conducted by Israel, was a novel use of a well-trodden spy tactic and a devastating intelligence blow to Hezbollah, ” NBC News reported after interviews with warfare and intelligence experts.
The tactic, of course, was condemned by The Usual Suspects including members of the so-called “Squad” of anti-Israel radicals in Congress like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who called it “disgusting” and retweeted a post from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who declared “This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict.”
Two days later, cartoonist Henry Payne shared the following cartoon on his Twitter/X page, which featured Tlaib acting shocked that her pager had exploded:
National Review Online also posted it as their cartoon of the day that same morning.
Not surprisingly, Tlaib being called out for her well-documented terroristic sympathies prompted the Squad and their allies to erupt once more, alleging that it was “racist” and that it would incite violence and threats against the Islamic-American community:
For starters, the Detroit News didn’t publish the cartoon. Payne is not even a cartoonist for the publication:
Further, perhaps the real outrage was over the fact that the cartoon was too close to the truth for their comfort:
Lastly, perhaps NRO will take down their cartoon when Tlaib takes this tweet down:
There was also this:
The good news is that Payne is standing his ground. Also, the Detroit News isn’t planning on canceling him, although they’ve asked him to stop putting his Detroit News email address on his cartoons going forward:
I did reach Payne by phone who told me “Jews are under an existential threat from Iran and its Hamas-Hezbollah proxies not seen since WWII … my cartoons for Andrews McNeel have been consistently critical of Rep. Tlaib’s lack of Congressional leadership in failing to support Israel’s battle for survival.”The Detroit News tells me they do not plan to remove Payne or discipline him in any way for making the cartoon.However, they say Payne was asked to discontinue use of the Detroit News email and agreed, when working for other publications, given that the Detroit News has nothing to do with creation of this cartoon.
The bad news is the Outrage Mob is continuing to do its thing. Hopefully, NRO won’t back down in the face of demands for an apology/retraction.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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