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Vision 2030

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have joined the battle against Israel and “normalization.”

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

The Saudi Vision 2030 plan for a peaceful Middle East was blocked by Iran-backed Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis.

Now the Houthi rebels of Yemen, also Iranian puppets, have joined the battle against Israel and “normalization.”

A U.S. official said the blockade of Iranian ports would be lifted if Tehran and Muscat finalize an arrangement.
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“I’m happy that the University of Washington, for literally the first time ever, has made the correct decision to not have an America-hating communist spread his hatred and terrible ideology to young people at our taxpayer funded universities,” Republican state representative Travis Couture told JNS.
The cohort includes 392 new immigrants—246 men and 146 women.