Confusing Times

 Here is a Dry Bones cartoon from 2006. Peace process? It is all very confusing. We are waiting for war one day, and waiting for peace the next. This is a very on and off situation and now, the Iranians are bombing our Gulf State Arab neighbors. We are living in very confusing and uncertain days.

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Opportunity Knocks ?!!

 This Dry Bones cartoon is from 2006. And now, Israel is standing with many of it's Gulf Arab neighbors. I keep being amazed at Yaakov's perceptiveness, and vision, year after year, cartoon after cartoon.

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Opportunity Knocks.

 Here is a Dry Bones Cartoon from 2006. Amazing. The gulf Arab nations are now on Israel's side after being attacked by Iran. This was the first cartoon that I read this morning while looking over the old cartoons to post. I don't understand how it could be so current. I don't remember what incident that could have sparked it's creation back in 2006.

This was the first night here in central Israel that there were no missiles or sirens. I hope that it may continue.

Also, I need to make a correction. Yesterday I gave the wrong website address for the wonderful Australian columnist, David Singer. His  newsletter can be found at,  davidsinger@substack.com

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On Our Own

While America is off appeasing Iran will we (and by we, I mean Israel, Egypt, and our Abrahamic Allies) be able to defend our region together? Your Thoughts?

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An Old Saying

Story in the Washington post HERE

Regional Threat

The latest from the Times of Israel:

Obama plans in tatters as Saudi king, most Gulf leaders to skip summit
Only two heads of state now to attend Camp David meeting intended to assuage Arab fears over nuclear deal with Iran

"It is not just the Saudi king who will be skipping this week’s Camp David summit of US and allied Arab leaders. Most Gulf heads of state won’t be there.

US President Barack Obama had invited six Gulf kings, emirs and sultans to the presidential retreat at Camp David, seeking to shore up wavering trust while Washington negotiates with regional power Tehran. Obama’s plans now lie in tatters, with only two heads of state slated to attend the Thursday meeting.

The absences will put a damper on talks that are designed to reassure key Arab allies, and almost certainly reflect dissatisfaction among leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council with Washington’s handling of Iran and what they expect to get out of the meeting."-more

Good News, Bad News from the Gulf

People always ask cartoonists "Where do you get your ideas from?". The question that they should be asking is "How do you get your head into gear so that you can think up those cartoons?". * * * One of the tricks that gag cartoonists use to stimulate idea-production is a time-honored warm-up exercise. The exercise is based on the fact that there are three classic cartoon situations that are easy and which always work. The first is the guy or guys marooned on a tiny desert island. The second is the guy standing on a corner selling little wind-up mechanical men. The third is the two guys hanging on the wall of a dungeon.

What the cartoonist does is to start knocking out captions. After your juices are flowing you go on to something more original. It's simpler than it sounds.

Here's a scribbled sketch of the two guys in the dungeon scene with the first caption that came to my mind:

* * * When I switched from being a gag cartoonist to a strip artist I decided that I needed to devise a warm-up exercise for a comic strip. One that works is the Good News, Bad News format. But when I read this morning's news about our foreign minister in Qatar I didn't have to "warm up". Clearly a Good News Bad News cartoon jumped out at me.