This is the best response to the cartoon controversy I have seen yet.

JERUSALEM, Feb 16 (Reuters) - An Israeli cartoonist has launched an "anti-Semitic cartoon contest" to poke fun at fellow Jews in response to furore among Muslims over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.

"We thought it would be a much braver thing to do to publish cartoons about ourselves, rather than our adversaries," Sandy told Reuters. "We want to fight fire with humour."

The cartoons will be exhibited in a Tel Aviv gallery and on his Web site www.boomka.org.

Freedom of speech. The most powerful tool in the fight against terror and oppression. Earlier today, Rush Limbaugh sang the praises of the Northern Illinois University students who were suspended from the student newspaper after choosing to publish the Danish cartoons that have caused such fury in the Muslim world. But how brave is it to publish something that may be offensive to people you neither know nor, perhaps, like?

Freedom of speech is important when it comes to issues that your friends, family, and government may not be comfortable with. It's the freedom to declare that your own Emporer is naked that forms the meat of a defense of liberty. Everything else is just gravy.