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Holy Colonial Masters

Aussie cartoonist Bruce Petty, who draws for The Age, thinks Israeli colonial masters are only interested in cheap Palestinian labor. Memo to Petty: Why not accuse Israel of organ-harvesting too? P.S. The ’67 borders aren’t…

Pesach Benson
May 30, 2011
12:00 am

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Aussie cartoonist Bruce Petty, who draws for The Age, thinks Israeli colonial masters are only interested in cheap Palestinian labor.

Memo to Petty: Why not accuse Israel of organ-harvesting too?

P.S. The ’67 borders aren’t so holy either.

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Tags: 1967 borders, Bruce Petty, Palestinian labor, Peace Process, The Age

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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