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Fighting a death cult

Expecting that the legacy news media to understand what Israel is facing in Hamas was naive.

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

The question posed by the interviewer in the cartoon is based on his assumption that there is a land dispute between Israel and Hamas, with an innocent Gazan population in peril.

Not true. Hamas has a deep religious dedication to the genocide of the Jews. We face a demonic force that must be exorcized.

Unfortunately, we can’t cure the carefully groomed hatred that now lives in the hearts of the people of Gaza.

Expecting that the legacy news media would understand was naive.

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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