Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

Or else?

The problem that we (and Israel’s leadership) now must face is that America’s tie to Israel is breakable.

Dry Bones
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

The Biden administration’s slick response to Israel’s enemies thinking of joining the attack on Israel was one word: “Don’t!”

The problem is that there was no “or else” attached to the implied threat.

The Biden administration’s threat to Israel, in contrast, is backed up by an “or else”

Israel’s weaponry—from ammo to Iron Dome interceptor missiles—comes through our “unbreakable” tie to the United States.

The problem that we (and Israel’s leadership) now must face is that America’s tie to Israel is breakable.

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 former national security advisor faces up to 60 months in prison for mishandling national defense information.
The House Appropriations Committee’s report calls for a Defense Department review of the U.S.-led Gaza ceasefire efforts and the use of U.S.-supplied military resources.
“I don’t know,” the candidate said when asked if the attacker targeted Jews during the 2025 attack. “I don’t know what his intentions were.”
Michael Fein, who was indicted in 2020, allegedly obtained financing for apartment complexes by submitting false occupancy, income and loan information.
“The Democratic Party as a whole, the party that we’ve known, that we’ve grown up with, is not an anti-Jewish party,” Pesach Osina told JNS. “It’s a party that reflects our values.”
“What we’re interested in is not their press conferences,” the U.S. secretary of state told reporters in Bahrain. “What we’re interested in is whether or not ships are moving.”
Benny Gantz, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan S. Tobin, Gilad Erdan, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Nissim Black and leading voices in security, diplomacy, media, law and Jewish communal affairs headline the summit’s third day in Jerusalem.