"The cucumber has become the most common object in Arab caricature cartoons in the past two weeks. Anyone who seeks to mock Iran's reactions and threats in the face of the strikes it suffers from Israel - including the recent attack near Isfahan, attributed to Jerusalem – points to illustrations of missiles or aircraft armed with cucumbers, playing on the word "khyar," which means "option" in Arabic, but also "cucumber."
Faisal al-Qassem, a popular Syrian-Druze host on Al Jazeera — who has 6.5 million followers on X (formerly Twitter) — has turned the ridicule against Iran into his professional trademark. In recent weeks, he held polls among users of the social media platform, which show that 85% of them believe the Iranian attack a week ago was intended for propaganda purposes and didn’t cause any real damage to Israel, and spices it with sarcastic remarks, such as describing the Syrian people's response to 'the developing confrontation between Israel, which received the Golan Heights from the Assad family, and Iran, which received the rest of Syria from the regime in Damascus'."
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Read in English - Ynet News, 22.4.2024.
Read in Hebrew - Ynet, 21.4.2024.