I don’t mean to be cynical, but after all these years of disappointment, most of us can’t help but roll our eyes at talk of a new “peace summit” or the old “road map for peace.” Granted, the Israelis and Palestinians need to keep an ongoing dialogue or else both sides will simply keep killing each other. I doubt the Bush Administration has the requisite interest or political capital to invest in such a huge endeavor as this — especially since Dubyah got us bogged down in Iraq. It’s frustrating as a cartoonist because there’s already been thousands of cartoons drawn about the Israel-Palestine issue. I have a feeling — unfortunate, though, it may be — that cartoonists will still be drawing these long after even I’m gone.
Here’s the doodle of this cartoon from my sketchbook:
