On the Road

Right now I'm away from my studio.
I did today's cartoon before leaving for a U.S. lecture tour.

I'm on my way to America on my "Dry Bones Campaign to turn Z Street into the Grass Roots Zionist Movement that America Needs", and to explain my YIISA (Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism) "Secret Codes" findings.

* * * You can keep up with my adventures in the U.S.A. by following me at facebook.com/drybonescartoon.

I plan to return home to Israel in time for for Shavuot (June 7).

Dry Bones On Tour

I'm about to leave for America on my "Dry Bones Campaign to turn Z Street into the Grass Roots Zionist Movement that America Needs", and to explain my YIISA (Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism) "Secret Codes" findings.

* * * You can keep up with my adventures in the U.S.A. by following me at facebook.com/drybonescartoon.

I plan to return home to Israel in time for for Shavuot (June 7).

I've done cartoons for while I'm away so that you can still get your Dry Bones "fix".

Terrorist Triumph

The American holiday of Thanksgiving will be celebrated this coming week. A traditional time for going "home for the holidays". Thinking about how travel has been impacted by Islamist Terrorism got me angry ...as did the increasingly draconian security measures being taken and the continued refusal to use profiling to protect us.

So I did this cartoon. And to those of you who will be traveling through airports this week, my sympathies and thoughts are with you. Happy Holiday!

TWA (1985)

Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon done back in 1985 about the TWA hijacking.

We knew, even back then, that releasing terrorists was crazy.
Here's a recent blog posting by Debbie Schlussel on the topic

"On June 15, 1985, Hezbollah hijackers seized the TWA flight in Athens. Identifying Robert Dean Stethem as an American serviceman, they brutally beat and tortured the 23-year-old Stethem to death. Then, they threw his body off the plane, like garbage. Stethem was so badly beaten that he could only be identified from fingerprints. He was on his way home after a tour of duty with the US Navy in the Middle East.

But Stethem never made it home. His next and final stop was Arlington National Cemetery.

At the time, the President was Ronald Reagan, a heroic leader who didn’t give in to Islamic terror. Well, almost. In 1983, Hezbollah terrorists (with the help of the PLO and Syria) attacked and killed over 300 U.S. Marines and civilians in Beirut, while they slept. It was the bloodiest attack on the Marine Corps since World War II. But President Reagan didn’t strike back. Instead, he pulled out of Lebanon. He sent a signal to Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorists that their attacks would not be answered, that America was weak. That gave Hezbollah the courage to hijack the plane and brutally kill Stethem, almost two years later." -more

Gray Outlook

I did this cartoon on Sunday night.

It thumbs its nose at Europe, laughs at their troubles, and makes a metaphor out of the volcanic cloud of ash. This kind of prideful behavior is, of course, a big no-no in Jewish culture. Acting with the degree of boastfulness that I exhibited in this cartoon simply invites cosmic retribution. A dangerous act like mine has a name. It's called a "kina hora".

After doing the cartoon, on Sunday night I went to bed. The next day the news broke on Arutz Sheva:

Volcanic Ash Heads for Israel, Some Flights Delayed

"The volcanic ash that threw international travel into an upheaval last month is expected to reach Israel Monday night, where at least two flights have been delayed. A flight from Barcelona is due to land late Monday night after a 20-hour delay, and a plane from Barcelona also was delayed.

The Israel Airports Authority (IAA) met in emergency session Monday afternoon and announced that it will not close the country's airspace, relaxing travelers who heard Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz say earlier in the day that Israel would shut down the airport if forced to do so" -more

I'm sorry. Forgive me. I won't do it again.