The Palestinian militant group, Hamas, has joined what's becoming an established trend in the Middle East of depicting enemies in the form of playing cards.
| What a marvelously original idea... |
First it was the deck of cards issued by the Americans in Iraq showing the faces of the 55 most wanted members of Saddam Hussein's Government. Then, an Israeli newspaper used the same device to depict Palestinian militants with the Hamas leader as the "Ace of Hearts". Now, a Hamas affiliated website has taken up the theme by publishing pictures of Israeli leaders as playing cards. At the top is the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, as the "Joker". He is surrounded by two armed, masked men wearing green strips of cloth across their foreheads, a trademark of the Islamic Palestinian group. |