Pivotal Events (1977)

Thursday, January 05, 2012

November 18, 1977

(1977) Currency, Sadat, Peace, Jerusalem, LSD, drugs, Egypt,
Today's Golden Oldie is from 1977. Thirty five years ago!

The words of the Bob Dylan song rang in our ears; "The times they are a-changin!" Our economy was being freed and Anwar Sadat was about to open the door to real peace with Egypt. The dream was about to become real.

* * * So thirty five years have passed and peace and normalcy with the people and nation of Egypt is a dream that never really blossomed and seems about to die. Sad.

Labels: 1977, Currency, drugs, Egypt, Jerusalem, LSD, Peace, Sadat, Travel tax

4 Comments:

At 8:23 AM, Dabas said...: Shalom Yaakov.
I remember as if it were yesterday when that cartoon was published back then.
Peace looked as if it were around the corner...
As you say, 35 years later and its not that we are back to the pre-Sadat years, but it seems we are worse off now!
Very sad....
At 9:28 AM, Robbie Dolev said...: The peace with Egypt was more of a non beligerent ceasefire agreement than true peace, and the fact that the future of the agreement hangs in the balance due to a change in the regime should set off loud alarm bells about signing any agreement with any Arab neighbors without first ensuring ironclad (no pun intended) what is good for us and, if we can't achieve that, then a good war is better than a bad peace.
At 5:58 PM, Shamino said...: I can only quote Golda Meir: "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."

That's the entire situation, and nothing in the universe will be able to change that fact.
At 12:23 AM, Anonymous said...: is this rly the only cartoon featuring lsd?