Abie Nathan (1981)
Today's Golden Oldie is from October 26 1981, twenty days after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In Israel we were shocked at the lack of public response in Egypt to the murder of our "peace partner". I'm posting this cartoon today because Abie Nathan has just passed away. He was a true Israeli hero.According to the AP report that's just come in:Israeli peace pioneer Abie Nathan dies at 81
JERUSALEM (AP) -"Abie Nathan, the peace activist who made a dramatic solo flight to Egypt in a rattletrap single-engine plane and later founded the groundbreaking "Voice of Peace" radio station, died Wednesday. He was 81.Nathan died at Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital, the hospital said in a statement.He burst onto the world of Middle East diplomacy in 1966 with his solo flight more than a decade before Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty.Although he failed in his initial bid to talk peace with the Egyptians, his daredevil escapade won the affection of many Israelis and launched a long and often eccentric one-man crusade to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.Over time, he earned a reputation as a maverick peace activist who often took diplomacy into his own hands. He was called a crackpot and a prophet. But many admired the daring of the former Israeli air force fighter pilot as he pounded on Egypt's doors, sailed his pirate radio ship into hostile Middle East waters or risked his life on hunger strikes for peace." -more
Abie at the controls, broadcasting offshore from the "Voice of Peace".
Labels: 1981, Abie Nathan, Egypt, Peace, Sadat
6 Comments:
Excellente work!!!
You are MASTER!!!
Congratulations.
Abie Nathan was one of the true voices for peace.
May he inspire a hundred thousand others on all sides of this horriffic conflict.
When will the crazies on both sides realize that even without atomic bombs, both sides have enough military might so no one can win an all out mid east war.
A just and equal peace will make the middle east one of the most prosperious regions in the world and there will be pleanty for everyone.
MAy this great man have his dream realized.
As a wife and mother whose children were very small in 1973 and husband called up to fight in Israel's defense in 1973, I shocked that all of the accolades to Natan (who accompolished nothing to bring peace) nothing was said about his completely subversive broadcasts to Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur war, to lay down their arms and do not fight back against the attacks from Egypt and Syria. Our state was nearly destroyed in the first 6 days of that war, and we have forgotten this--I am horrified at our necessity to glorify people as we all want peace, but at ANY price? He had a right to his own views, but glorifying behaviour that would throw us back to the death, persecution and destruction of the diaspora is not something to idealize.
Sorry - I cannot crank up much admiration for a leftie who "took diplomacy into his own hands".
We have an elected government to do that.
The childish peaceniks who "took things into their own hands" because their saccharine dreams weren't coming true fast enough - have brought us to the sad position we're in today.
Small time traitor with too much time and too much money for his own good.
The prototype of the current generation of traitors.
Good riddance.
Time to call a spade a spade ...
http://tinyurl.com/6dc8ov
Obit for Abie Nathan in the Philadelphia Bulletin:
"A Legacy Of Not Fighting Back When Attacked"
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