The Victory in the Mirror of Caricature: Israeli Propaganda Cartoon Book, Tel Aviv, 1967
A scarce Israeli propaganda booklet published in Tel Aviv immediately after the 1967 Six-Day War, using caricature as a weapon of ridicule, triumph, and political framing. The publication gathers and reworks wartime cartoon imagery around Nasser, the Arab states, the Soviet Union, the United Nations, refugees, borders, and military defeat, turning the Israeli victory into a compact visual argument. Its tone is openly mocking, nationalist, and polemical, with cartoons staged as evidence of Arab humiliation and Israeli survival.
The booklet belongs to the fast-moving propaganda culture that followed the war, when printed satire, cartoons, and cheap illustrated booklets became tools for explaining victory to Israeli readers and reinforcing the image of Arab political collapse. The visual language is blunt and aggressive: chained bodies, broken armies, bloated leaders, snakes, coffins, borders, rockets, caricatured diplomats, and repeated images of defeat. It is not a neutral cartoon collection, but a postwar propaganda object designed to circulate the emotional afterlife of military victory.
Title: הנצחון בראי הקריקטורה (The Victory in the Mirror of Caricature)
Publisher: Kossigin and Partners, Tel Aviv
Country: Israel
Editor: Uri Sela
Language: Hebrew, with Arabic text reproduced inside the cartoons
Format: Stapled illustrated booklet
Subject: Israeli political cartoons, Arab press caricature, Six-Day War propaganda, anti-Arab satire, postwar Israeli print culture
Published: 1967
Condition: Original booklet with visible edge wear, handling marks, creasing, rubbing, and minor cover wear. Interior pages intact with signs of age and use.
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