[green, pointing to a clock with Hitler above it, that reads 11:30] Oh no, look… It’s half to Hitler
[yellow, annoyed] Chill out buddy, don’t be such an alarmist
[green, pointing to a clock with Hitler above it, that reads 11:45] Oh no, look… It’s quarter to Hitler
[yellow, rude] Yeah I get it, I tweeted about it, leave me be
[green, pointing to a clock with Hitler above it, that reads 11:55] Oh no, look… It’s five to Hitler
[yellow, scared] Oh shit oh fuck, we really need to do something NOW
[green, pointing to a clock with Hitler above it, that reads 11:59] Oh shit, look… It’s one to Hitler
[yellow, terrified] It’s too late now, wish we could have seen it coming earlier
This applies just as well to Israel’s increasingly violent ethno-Fascism ending up in a Genocide about to turn into a new Holocaust, as it applies to the US’ empoverishment, explosion of inequality and collapse of social mobility which together with the domination of various pillars of Democracy by the moneyed elites made the election of a Fascist Populist a certainty.
The toon on the right is obviously a US-style Liberal - the last part (“Too late now, nothing we can do”) is especially telling.
Israel started as a genocidal state, it continued as a genocidal state, and it still is a genocidal state. Settler Colonialism is genocide.
Indeed: the Nakba was already a Genocide.
My point is about Israel’s “evolution” toward a Genocidal nation with levels of violence and rabid racism similar to Nazi Germany, from the generic “19th-Century White Colonialism” model they started with.
With that “Hitler clock”, this cartoon is pretty much a perfect representation of how Israel has changed over time from run-of-the-mill white colonialist nation to its current state a ultra violent rabbid ethnostate just about to commit their own version of the Holocaust by starving Gazans, and of the reactions of mainstream Western politicians to both Israel’s “evolution over time” and it’s current state.