From the Archives: Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban on "Face the Nation," March 1971

[@kai7778.]

Abba Etan is one of the greatest statesman Israel has ever had! What an orator!

[@j49mass]

A marvelous speaker. Multi-lingual as well

[@4AMPizza]

A brilliant man

[@erpollock]

When I studied at the music academy in Jerusalem, the Foreign Minister's villa was right next door. Twice I saw Abba Eban outside his home - on the balcony and stepping to the sidewalk to meet a visitor. That was a thrill!

[@jtfeasor]

His son, Eli, was a tenured professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

[@georgekpodovia6517]

Great man with persuasive oratorical skills ❤

[@SuperKripke]

Yeah he sounds totally indigenous to the Middle East.

[@adamsaleh4143]

Another criminal

[@EL-oj6uq]

@@SuperKripke Yeah the arabs sound native to the Levant

[@SuperKripke]

@@EL-oj6uq Arabic has been a language of the region for centuries. Israeli Hebrew was invented in the 19th century and transplanted at the expense of the natives and the coming migrants.

[@jonathanmaister2153]

​@@SuperKripke Been the language of the region since they colonized it in the 7th century.

[@gybx4094]

The most eloquent intellectual in modern history.

[@Shelomi-nr1kv]

What was right now is so right today . A great man from a great nation ! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@LSMGinc]

So eloquent and persuasive. Haters will always hate.. but there’s a reason this tiny country has achieved exponentially more than all its hater neighbors. General rule: You will never find a hater more successful than you.

[@drbobby111]

He was a special man. A hero.

[@flaviocalichmansp-brasil6958]

This is what a truly great man looks like.

[@williampevsner9887]

And this all before the Yom Kippur War...as history repeats itself

[@roynexus6]

Bingo. Israeli Left and the appeasers haven't learned a thing.

[@sabbaelly]

Great statesman ship, oratory talent and passionate Zionism on full display here.

[@qentrepreneurship9987]

Wow ! An Israeli historic person.

[@davidvita]

2:36 we lost those memories when we supported Hamas Abba … I really hope you cannot c the news in these days 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@beatricealiba7053]

Is he still alive? What a great man

[@זוהר-פ3ב]

Died long time ago

[@flaviocalichmansp-brasil6958]

From Wikipedia: 'Abba Solomon Meir Eban[1] (/ˈɑːbə ˈiːbən/ ⓘ; Hebrew: אבא שלמה אבן [ˈ(ʔ)aba ˈ(ʔ)even]; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 - 17 November 2002) was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages'

[@ramicohen1536]

Pleasure to the ears

[@RadioTiberio]

Israel needs a PM like him right now

[@dvoravithanovsky6902]

So interesting to noe the verbal aggression of aba eben so long ago as well as an uncompromising approach to so called pace negotiations. No wonder that the Palestinians realized after decades of brutal occupation that israel has no interest whatsoever in peace or in living peacefully with its neighbors least of all with the oppressed Palestinians

[@kobis204]

LOL

[@Jonathan-o1q6q]

He came from south africa

[@chcoo]

From one apartheid state to another apartheid, occupation state

[@sladetuner8661]

Cape Town

[@victorblock3421]

@@chcoo he didn't move to an Arab country, he moved to Israel!

[@rainman7769]

He moved to Palestine​@@victorblock3421

[@skagenman1]

He said of Netanyahu: “only Netanyahu the newly elected Israeli leader failed to comprehend the centrality of the Palestine issue in the Middle East”

[@gobalik]

israel should never have given back sharm el sheikh to egypt. For the average egyptian sharm was/is totally and utterly meaningless. For israel it would have given security over the straits if tiran. Now israel needs to rely on arab whims and caprice - at any moment a radical islamic government could takeover egypt and it would be chaos all over again

[@wmbrown6]

Sounds like Don Robertson was the opening and closing voiceover on this edition.

[@RS-uh7rz]

Looking in vain to find any remotely comparable interlocutor from the Arab or broader Islamic worlds - in Eban's time or our own.

[@ahwien]

Israel has excellent negotiators in ever era. The Arabs won't accept any Jewish State. 'nothing new. The next major war initiated by Arabs would come 2 years after this program.

[@tounsi925]

You talk about a genocidal state it's not about a good interlocutor

[@gringo19860]

Mellifluous 😂

[@mercomania]

Which country did Abba Eban emigrate from to the settler state?

[@chcoo]

Apartheid state of south Africa

[@GotterVibez]

Why do all israelis have a such a good english? From what i know, their native language is hebrew. :-/

[@quartzfe.ja12jonathan]

born in south africa and lived in england

[@jonathanmaister2153]

They are educated people.

[@KushiteComplex]

"Experts React: Assessing the Israeli Intelligence and Potential Policy Failure."~CSIS, Oct. 25, 2023.

[@474fsde]

This guy is such a liar about the 1967 war!

[@davidartzy6732]

I agree, the Egyptian, Syrianor Russian depiction is so much accurate

[@adamsaleh4143]

Another criminal

[@kobis204]

like your mother

[@KushiteComplex]

"How Israel Spies on US Citizens." ~The Nation, Aug. 31, 2018.

[@myintegruns12s51]

obsessed

[@davidartzy6732]

"U.S. tries to reassure Israel about security relationship after Pentagon leak: Officials" , Axios 2023, How U.S. had spied on some of its closest allies, including Israel

[@davidartzy6732]

"Once Shocking, U.S. Spying on Its Allies Draws a Global Shrug", NYT, 2023

[@davidartzy6732]

"U.S. tries to reassure Israel about security relationship after Pentagon leak", Axios, 2013

[@KushiteComplex]

"The art of deception: How Israel uses ‘hasbara’ to whitewash its crimes." ~TRT, 2021.

[@KushiteComplex]

"Israel's Intelligence Agencies and Military Need More Civilian Oversight." ~Newsweek, Apr. 10, 2024.

[@davidartzy6732]

"U.S. government buys data on Americans with little oversight" @NBC, 2023

[@davidartzy6732]

I guess the Russia, Iran, China, Lebanon, Syria, Eygept, Jordan Turkey oversight model is better....

[@KushiteComplex]

@@davidartzy6732 I guess your blatant False Equivalence fallacy is even worse...

[@TangoDaddy1]

A brilliant liar!

[@arimoff]

Who, mohamad?

[@MrDastardly]

Palestine. 😘

[@yonatangoldman9759]

53 years after this interview, the savage Arabs of Gaza are not closer to having a state.

[@MrDastardly]

@@yonatangoldman9759 The sort of comment I’d expect from an unfortunate member of the world’s most despised organism, the despotic life form which threatens mankind.

[@yonatangoldman9759]

@@MrDastardly What's your point?

[@MrDastardly]

@@yonatangoldman9759 Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. All pseudo ‘humans’ should be aware of this.

[@MrDastardly]

@@yonatangoldman9759 What organism are you?