Stories like Aftonbladet's fiction of IDF theft of Palestinian organs and France 2's false allegation that the IDF murders Arab children sell newspapers and raise television ratings because the popular animus against Israel is so great that people are willing to buy newspapers and watch television networks that propagate obviouslies that feed this irrational hatred.
An obvious source of inspiration lies in 17th- and 18th-century European botanical prints, which are often bizarre and stylized but always highly colored.