Peace With Saudi Arabia ?

According to CNN:

Air India is launching a new flight from New Delhi to Tel Aviv, starting on March 22, and has been given permission to use the skies over Saudi Arabia, an Air India spokesperson told CNN.
Israel and Saudi Arabia have never had official diplomatic relations, and interactions between their governments have taken place only through back channels.
But the historic animosity has given way to cautious, if often denied, cooperation based on a shared enmity towards Iran.
The permission for Air India to fly over Saudi Arabia will likely be seen as a major breakthrough, cutting hours off direct flights between India and Israel.

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LA Airport (2002)

July 08, 2002

Today's Golden Odie cartoon is from 2002.

According to CNN's report:

"...both local and federal authorities said it was too early to say whether terrorists were to blame for Thursday's shooting."We have no information that indicates that this incident is connected to any terrorist event or anything else, but the matter is under investigation right now," Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn said.Added Richard Garcia, the FBI agent in charge of the bureau's Los Angeles office, "Right now, we're looking at it as an isolated incident." -more

Business Class Seats

The world is getting so crazy that sometimes I can do a cartoon that simply reports the facts and people will think it's a joke.

Below is the eBay ad for ...that's right, two El Al Aircraft Business Class Seats being offered at $400 for the pair.

your thoughts?

The U.S. Dollar (1978)

Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon that I did way back in July of 1978. Thirty years ago this month!

Back in 1978 the Israeli currency was called the Lira. Now it's called the Shekel. The Dollar is still called the Dollar, but as the old song goes "A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore" ...and wildly changing rates of exchange always seem to mean higher prices here in the Promised Land.

* * * A major story in Israel in 2008 is the incredible drop in the value of the American currency. The Israeli economy is being shaken. Israeli charitable organizations that receive donations in U.S. Dollars are hard hit as the Shekel value of those donations continues to drop ...also hit are Israeli manufacturers who find that U.S. sales bring Dollars that are worth less in Shekels each month as the crisis deepens. At an Israeli friend's house the other day she explained that her savings were in a Dollar account. She was confident that in another year or so the Dollar would be back to where it "should be". I said "What if it never goes back up to its previous value?"

So what do you think about the falling Dollar? Will it rise again?

What do you think?

* * * Oh and if you're too young to remember the old song and want to hear a snippet of it, make sure your speakers are on and click on "A Dollar Aint a Dollar Anymore"!