The Israeli Haaretz daily said Bahgouri's visit to Israel was within the framework of a project called ‘Cartoons for Peace'. The project was the initiative of French cartoonist Plantu, who had agreed with the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan following the crisis of the Danish drawings to bring together cartoonists from different countries under one roof. So Bahgouri has cleverly chosen Heikal the symbol and the Nasserite Al-Arabi newspaper with its chief editor Abdallah Sennawi to pass his quest for normalization with Israel.
He gave Al-Arabi six cartoons, five of which praised Heikal, while he used the last to praise himself and Plantu's cartoonists that have defeated Israel in the battle of caricature. He writes to Heikal: “I admire you and your talk show on Al-Jazeera channel. Your pen is like a machine gun pointed at the invaders of Gaza.”
Ironically, Heikal did not say anything of real value about the massacre in Gaza. And Sennawi also has this Heikalomania. It is a disease that affects the Nasserites aged 30 to 50. Its symptoms are the blind praising of Heikal and the addiction of seeing him every Friday on Al-Jazeera.
