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The new year hadn’t even been rung in when the Israel-Gaza border erupted yet again. Out with the low-hanging political fruit (recession, deficits, stimuli), out with the holiday fruitcakes (Blagojevich, Madoff, Lame-Duck Dubya) and in with grim reality. Perhaps understandably, our Middle East cohorts captured the chaos with more passion and immediacy than American cartoonists. Whether despondent victims of bombing, metaphorical munitions or symbols of a region abandoned to its violent fate, children were at the forefront. No kid gloves here.

-- Joel Pett

Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of the Lexington-Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.

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