Gas Masks (1991)

Today's cartoon is from January 1991.

Missiles were now hitting Israel, the first Gulf War was on, we all wore gas masks, and I did this cartoon with Mr. Shuldig at the drawing table in a gas mask, drawing a Dry Bones cartoon. It was sort of a letter from the front for our non-Israeli readers.

* * * Twenty years ago this month.

TV (1991)

Today's cartoon is from January 13, 1991.
We're continuing our review of the days leading up to the first Gulf War.

Five days after this cartoon was published, SCUD missiles would hit Israel and the world would be watching on TV! We in Israel would also be watching, but we would be wearing our gas masks, as would TV reporters on the scene.

To see the TV broadcast we would see on January 18, 1991 click on the image below of Martin Fletcher reporting from Tel Aviv:

Fear of Flying

According to the University of California, San Francisco

UCSF scientists speak out against airport full-body scans
"Four UCSF scientists sent a letter last April to the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, expressing concern about the health risks of full body scanners being implemented at U.S. airports. The co-signers were David Agard, PhD, John Sedat, PhD, (emeritus), and Robert Stroud, PhD, all professors of biochemistry and biophysics, and Marc Shuman, MD, professor of medicine (hematology/oncology)." -more

And then there's this report out of Vancouver Canada:

Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says

"A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country.

"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.

"That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world."

Sela, former chief security officer of the Israel Airport Authority and a 30-year veteran in airport security and defence technology, helped design the security at Ben Gurion." -more