A Day which will Live in Infamy

Dec 7, 1941.

Remember Pearl Harbor.
80 years ago today.
The Japanese "Sneak Attack" on the U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii.

Did you grow up with knowledge of this "Day of Infamy"? When did it stop being important? Was it ever important to non-Americans?

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Israel's Future

Mr. Shuldig consults his crystal ball.

Disaster

Right now I'm away from my studio.
I did today's cartoon before leaving for a U.S. lecture tour.

I'm in America on my "Dry Bones Campaign to turn Z Street into the Grass Roots Zionist Movement that America Needs", and to explain my YIISA (Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism) "Secret Codes" findings.

* * * You can keep up with my adventures in the U.S.A. by following me at facebook.com/drybonescartoon.

I plan to return home to Israel in time for for Shavuot (June 7).

What's NEWS

I'm often surprised by what the media decides the News is. Right now the massive destruction in Japan has become a background story, as the media concentrates on exaggerating the potential danger of the damaged nuclear energy plants.

Monster Attack

The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE) said that "Art imitates nature."

Japan in 2011 seems to say that, in this case at least, "Nature imitates Art".

Your thoughts?

Just Not News

The stories this week that you may not have seen:

Reuters: Israel seizes ship carrying Iranian weapons to Gaza

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – "Israeli naval commandos on Tuesday seized a cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said were Iranian-supplied weapons intended for Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

A military spokeswoman said Israeli forces met no resistance when they intercepted the German-owned "Victoria" some 200 miles from Israel and were taking the vessel to the Israeli port of Ashdod." -more

And the weapons manuals were in Iranian (Farsi)

Navy: Anti-ship missiles, Farsi manual found on seized vessel

"IDF estimates some 50 tons of weapons found on Gaza-bound 'Victoria' vessel intercepted by commandoes; Rear Admiral Ben-Yehuda says Chinese-made C-704 anti-ship missiles would have threatened Israeli sea-based strategic installations, navy vessels had they reached Strip. Containers were loaded after Iranian ships docked in Syria two weeks ago, he adds" -more

And then a day later (yesterday, March 17 ) The Australian ran this story:

Turks order Iran transport plane to land

"An Iranian cargo plane en route to Syria was forced to land in Turkey last night amid fears it may be carrying military or nuclear material.

The plane was being searched at Diyarbakir airport in southeastern Turkey a day after Israeli commandos operating deep in international waters boarded a ship carrying arms allegedly on their way from Iran to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

The plane, which took off yesterday from Tehran bound for the Syrian city of Aleppo, landed following an order from the Turkish foreign ministry.

Two F-16 jet fighters were put on standby to intervene if the Iranian plane did not obey the orders to land, security sources said.

Anti-nuclear, biological and chemical material units of civilian defence teams took part in the inspection of the plane, Anatolia news agency reported." -more

Generation Gap

Watching current events is like watching a crash scene in an eighties movie. Everything seems to be happening in slow motion ...but moving towards its inevitable conclusion.

A new set of "Axis Powers" has arisen. And those of us who are old enough to have seen the movie before are doomed to sit through it again!

* * * And for the under-seventy crowd, "Tojo" was Japan's dictator during WW2. "Il Duce" was Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of Italy during WW2 ... and "Der Fuhrer" was Hitler.

Toyota Sales Department

The latest, according to the Financial Times:

Embattled Toyota Chief Agrees to Testify

"Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s embattled chief executive, agreed on Thursday to appear before a US congressional committee investigating his company as lawmakers stepped up their scrutiny of the Japanese carmaker with a subpoena for documents held by one of its former attorneys.

Mr Toyoda accepted a formal request, issued by the Democratic chairman of the House oversight committee, Edolphus Towns, to appear at a hearing next Wednesday.

“I look forward to speaking directly with Congress and the American people,” Mr Toyoda said." -more

* * * When I was a kid, something that was "made in Japan" was shoddily built and unreliable ...while American-made goods were reliable.