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UNIFIL renewed again

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was renewed. For another year. Again.

Dry Bones cartoon UNIFIL
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

The annual U.N. Security Council vote to renew the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s mandate has taken place.

After a debate between France (whose draft resolution limited UNIFIL’s freedom of movement) and the United States and the United Arab Emirates (who opposed the limitation), UNIFIL was renewed. For another year. Again.

Meanwhile, an increasingly-belligerent Hezbollah, a puppet of the Iranian mullahs, continues its threatening moves on Israel’s northern border.

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.
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