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Replays and eggs

“Keep all your eggs in one basket, and then guard that basket very, very well,” said Mark Twain. It’s the second part that we seem to have missed.

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

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme,” Mark Twain once said.

The current situation in Israel is awfully close to a repeat of 1948, beginning with the slaughter and humiliation of Jews and a pledge to destroy us all.

We won’t know how Israel’s security system failed us until after we win this war and have a national inquiry.

In the meantime, I offer another pertinent piece of advice from Twain.

He said: “Keep all your eggs in one basket, and then guard that basket very, very well.”

It’s the second part that we seem to have missed.

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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