Africa (1983)
Today's Golden Oldie is from 1983.Back then, Apartheid still held South Africa in its grip while the mad tyrant Gaddafi ruled in Libya to the north. As of this writing Gaddafi (crazier than ever) is still clinging to power in Libya.In 1973 Israel was hit by a successful Egyptian surprise attack. We call it the "Yom Kippur War". They call it the "October War". Israel recovered, turned the tide, and pushed invading Egyptian troops back. The Arab States, displeased by Israel's survival pressured African States to cut ties with the Jewish State.
According to Mongabay.com:"after the October 1973 War twenty-nine African states severed diplomatic relations with Israel. Malawi, Lesotho, and Swaziland were the only sub-Saharan countries to maintain diplomatic relations with Israel.The African "embargo" of Israel began to collapse after the 1978 Camp David Accords and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel. Following Zaire's lead in 1982, Liberia (1983), the Cote d'Ivoire (1986), Cameroon (1986), and Togo (1987) renewed diplomatic ties with Israel" -more
Labels: 1973, 1983, Africa, Apartheid, Gaddafi, Israel, October War, South Africa, War, Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur War
11 Comments:
Of course, what is really interesting is that even without diplomatic relations, Israel, then and now, helps many African (and other developing nations throughout the world) with development projects of all kinds.
What an excellent comics style.. Very informative article.
Also interesting to note that the South African "Apartheid" state supported Israel, and had military ties with Israel. The new "democratic" government supports PA, Hamas, and sponsors the Durban anti Israel / anti Apartheid conference....
Having great friends in Africa is all good and well. However, we can no longer afford to take in anymore of these wefare "refugees". This part of the world must realize that Israel is not a welfare state for them to come here and mooch from our amiable system. There are too many here already living from the state and they return nothing.
Just read on Arutz Sheva that the Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe claims "descent from the Jewish people". Look Out!! Here come thousands more welfare trash to bum from us!!
anonymous:
and if the Lemba are indeed our long lost brothers?
bones
Bones,
It may be true but I am suspicious of their claim. You have seen yourself how these destitute African peoples seem to want to go to a country and live from the welfare. Israel can not afford any more welfare people. the country will go bankrupt providing haven for all of Africa. Most of them claim to be Jewish and wish to take advantage of the right of return just to improve their lot.
Just heard Moamar is blaming - wait, NOT Israel, but al Quida !! - for the revolution in Libya; he also claims hiss fellow Muslems spiked the water.
But can you believe it, (so fard) he's not blaming Israel or Jews; not even the US ! Is it Hanukah (nes gadol hiyah sham); I know it's close to Purim.
Frankyn,
I thought Mu'ammar was blaming the Zionists at Al-Jazeera for his troubles.
I hope the Libyans hang him and his noxious spawn. I don't expect znything better to come after him, for us, for Israel, or for the Libyans themselves, but having at least one more Arab tyrannothug get his just deserts would please me.
In ancient days, Libya was the heart of an anthropomorphic map in north Africa.
Aphrodite
The goddess we call Aphrodite
Is not just an old Grecian deity.
The Phoenicians did make
Her a map. It's not fake.
Her body is cartograffiti.
The Punic war destroyed her face, 1
The Romans left nary a trace.
But her hair is still there,
In Sahara, that's where. 2
And her chin's a Tunisian place. 3
Mt. Atlas is her first verTebra. 4
Her backbone is now Gulf of Sidra. 5
Her heart is in Libya, 6
Her left leg, Somalia. 7
Her breast is in Chad wearing no bra. 8
The Greeks called her liver Egypt, an' 9
Her kidney was Biblical Goshen. 10
She's bent at her waist,
Now Misr-ably placed. 11
The Red Sea was her menstruation. 12
As a kid I did think the Red Sea
Was an English map typo: lost E,
From Reed Sea in Hebrew.
But that could not be true,
Mare Rubrum 'twas Latin, B.C.
Aphrodite with Hermes did sin,
We know this is true 'cause within
Her "snatch" we call Sinai 13
His "zaiyin" does still lie. 14
It's known as the desert of Zin.
Notes:
Anthropomorphic maps were generated by configuring the body of a god or goddess over the area to be mapped. The name of each part of that body became the name of the area under that part. This produced a scale 1:1 map-without-paper on which each place name indicated its approximate location and direction with respect to every other place on the same map whose name was produced this way.
1 The Romans destroyed Carthage during the 3rd Punic War. In Hebrew, "face" is PaNim.
2 In Hebrew, "hair" is Sa3aR (using 3 for the letter aiyin).
3 Tunis is a reversal of SaNTir, the Hebrew word for chin.
4 The Atlas is the first cervical vertebra that supports the skull.
5 In Hebrew, SHiDRa is spine, backbone.
6 The Semitic term for "heart" is LeB.
7 In Hebrew, "left" is S'MoL.
8 In Hebrew, "breast" is SHaD.
9 As in ancient Greek hepato- "liver".
10 The ancient shin had a T-sound, e.g., SHoR = ox was ToR as in Taurus. The gimel often has a K-sound in other languages, e.g., GaMaL = camel. So, GoSHeN sounded like QTN, as in QiTNiot = beans. Goshen was her bean-shaped kidney. Now you know why Ashkenazi Jews do not eat beans on Passover. Cotton was exported from QTN / Goshen. The Latin genus for cotton is Gossypium. Compare English gossamer.
11 Both Arabic Misr and Hebrew MiTZRaim are derived from the Semitic term for narrow, TZaR. The waist is (or should be) the narrow part of the body.
12 In Hebrew, the Red Sea is "Yam SooF" = Sea of Reeds. SooF is a reversal of the sounds in peh-sof PoS, Hebrew for the female pudenda.
13 In Hebrew, Sinai is spelled without an aleph. But it is pronounced as if had an aleph after the nun. It seems that the ancient sound of aleph changed from CHS/GHT => a glottal stop. Treating aleph as CHS, Sinai sounded like SNCHs, a reversal of K'NiSah = entrance (to her body).
14 ZaiYiN means "weapon" in Hebrew. It is also a euphemism for the male member.
Ciao, Izzy Cohen, Petah Tikva
Izzy
Great stuff
But WHERE'S THE MAP that goes with the legend??
Nu?
Give us a link.
Bones
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