Appendix

 

 

Illustration 1:

Man 1: You can’t believe we made the Crossing??

Man 2: No, I can’t believe we were defeated in 1967!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 15 October 1973)

 

Illustration 2

 

           

 

     -Israel announces her number of human casualties-

 

The educated newspaper reader refers to the fact that more than 70 per cent of all African countries cut diplomatic relations with Israel in the wake of the war: “Even if we assume that this number is accurate we still need to tally their losses in Africa and the rest of the world, can you see how much that’ll add up to?!”

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 15 October 1973)

 

 

 

 

Illustration 3

                         

  

   I wonder after how many communiqués Vietnam won the war ?!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 29 October 1973)

 

Illustration 4

 

 

                      

           

Good Heavens!! We’ve wrought quite a few international transformations ..!!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 15 October 1973)

Illustration 5 

 

 

This is the October tree, every time you water it, it sprouts!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 9 May 1974)

 

Illustration 6

 

Host entering the room with a bottle of sand from the Sinai: This New Year’s Eve we’ll stay up till the morning and talk politics ...!!

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 31 December 1973)

 

Illustration 7

 

                       

Don’t ask me for coffee, don’t ask me for tea  … because quite frankly my only passion is the battle ...!!

 (Ruz al-Yūsuf, 26 November 1973)

 

Illustration 7

 

                       

 

I shut it down because the people are all cleansed after the 6th of October

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 5 November 1973)

Illustration 8

 

                                    Congratulations ... It’s a man ...!!     

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 5 November 1973)

 

Illustration 9

                       

Foreign journalist: And you were born when, Sir?

Soldier:                  I was born on the sixth of October!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 22 October 1973)

 

Illustration 10

 

           

 

Two men looking at the statue of Egyptian Renaissance after 6 October 1973: Calm down, don’t let the joy overcome you!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 29 October 1973)

 

Illustration 11

 

 

 

 

He died on his own the moment the battle began !

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 22 October 1973)

Illustration 12

 

           

 

An Israeli child with a book on ‘The Theory of Secure Borders’: “Man, what is this tosh that you’ve written here. Go and find us something else to learn ..!”

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 3 December 1973)

 

Illustration 13

 

                       

 

An Israeli husband berating Defence Minister Moshe Dayan: Now that your expansionist theories have failed ...where are we going to put this one ?!

                        

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 26 November 1973)

 

Illustration 14

 

Make room! I’m entering with my electoral manifesto!!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 14 January 1974)

 

Illustration 15

 

           

 

Moshe Dayan talking about the God of War: He will represent us at the Peace

Conference ..!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 10 December 1973)

Illustration 16

 

 

The Arab: Israel does not understand any other kind of negotiations !!

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 10 December 1973)

 

Illustration 17

                       

You know, we complement each other quite well

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 22 October 1973)

 

Illustration 18

             

Of course, we will cultivate Resistance in every land ...!!

                                                (Ruz al-Yūsuf, 10 December 1973)

 

Illustration 19

             

 

Nixon lectures the world’s puzzled ‘Public Opinion’: The only way to establish peace in the Middle East is if Egypt withdraws from Egypt and Syria withdraws from Syria !

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 22 October 1973)

 

Illustration 20

                         

 

Abba Eban: Of course, the disengagement of forces is a matter that takes time... You see, when we disengage two soldiers from each other, we separate the two soldiers one from the other ...

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 31 December 1973)

Illustration 21

 

I think it’s been proven now that Disengagement between us is impossible ..!!

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 2 June 1974)

 

Illustration 22

                       

                                   

(Ruz al-Yusuf, 30 December 1974)

 

Illustration 23

 

Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin tells US President Gerald Ford: Of course America needs to protect Israel outside her borders, for a very simple reason... Israel doesn’t have any borders!

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 9 June 1975)

Illustration 24

 

Israeli military planners: If we’re supposed to withdraw from the Sinai, let’s withdraw in the direction of Cairo... that way, we can return to Egypt the passes and the oilfields of Abu Rudais ..!

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 14 July 1975)

 

Illustration 25

 

 

                                    Writing in the sky: Allahu Akbar!

 

(Ruz al-Yūsuf, 22 October 1973)

 

Illustration 26

 

           

A weeping Cairene falls into the arms of a citizen from Suez who says, “On the contrary, we felt sorry because you weren’t fighting like us!”

                                                (Ruz al-Yusuf, 4 February 1974)

 

Illustration 27

 

 

                                    Title Page of Al-Da‘wa, August 1978

 

 

 

Illustration 28

 

           

Uncle Sam stands next to an Israeli soldier eyeing the flare-up in Lebanon: “Step-by-step diplomacy … first Lebanon and then a second Arab country and then a third Arab country and so on and on!!”

                                    (Ruz al-Yusuf, 26 January 1976)

 

Illustration 29

 

 

                                                (Ruz al-Yusuf, 24 June 1974)