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A plan for a hospital, an airport and a brand-new Jewish city in the heartland of the Land of Israel. Do we adopt it? No.

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

A plan for a hospital, an airport and a brand-new Jewish city in the heartland of the Land of Israel.

Do we adopt it? No.

Why not? Well, because it will be condemned by our friends and foes alike.

My first instinct was to draw a “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” cartoon. A cartoon that condemns the double standard that Israel is judged by.

But satisfying as that would have been, I felt the need to focus on the folks we are defying. In the last few days both U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have each shown us, and the world, what they are capable of doing.

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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