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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a picture of a cartoon bomb to illustrate his “red-line” doctrine on Iran, he may have inadvertently spawned an Internet reaction he didn’t expect.

First, here is the picture as tweeted from Netanyahu’s official account:

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Which drew many reactions like this one:

http://twitter.com/lowleveltweet/status/251394574830936065

Atlantic national columnist Jeffery Goldberg compared the bomb picture to Clint Eastwood’s chair picture: