Marriage of Marie Bari. Family photo in Wadi Abou Jmil street, Beirut, June 2, 1957. (Credit: João Luis Koifman via the Arab World Institute)
“I wanted to say congratulations. You were extraordinary.”
Albert Dichy was 15 years old when the supervisor at his Catholic school came up to him in the playground to congratulate him on Israeli military prowess.It was June 1967.The Arab world was reeling from a major defeat in the Sinai: Egyptian tanks had been destroyed and the Israeli flag flown over Sharm al-Sheikh. In Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan’s troops were parading in front of the Western Wall.The Lebanese watched in bewilderment as the “flagrant aggression” unfolded. With school classes suspended throughout the fighting, like many other young Lebanese men of his age, Dichy watched the Arab defeat on the living room television with his family. The one difference: He was Jewish.It mattered little that he had no particular sympathy for the Jewish state, because later he would be...
Albert Dichy was 15 years old when the supervisor at his Catholic school came up to him in the playground to congratulate him on Israeli military prowess.It was June 1967.The Arab world was reeling from a major defeat in the Sinai: Egyptian tanks had been destroyed and the Israeli flag flown over Sharm al-Sheikh. In Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan’s troops were parading in front of the Western Wall.The Lebanese watched in bewilderment as the “flagrant aggression” unfolded. With school classes suspended throughout the fighting, like many other young Lebanese men of his age, Dichy watched the Arab defeat on the living room television with his family. The one difference: He was Jewish.It mattered little that he had no particular sympathy for the Jewish state, because later he would be...
“I wanted to say congratulations. You were extraordinary.”
Albert Dichy was 15 years old when the supervisor at his Catholic school came up to him in the playground to congratulate him on Israeli military prowess.It was June 1967.The Arab world was reeling from a major defeat in the Sinai: Egyptian tanks had been destroyed and the Israeli flag flown over Sharm al-Sheikh. In Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan’s troops were parading in front of the Western Wall.The Lebanese watched in bewilderment as the “flagrant aggression” unfolded. With school classes suspended throughout the fighting, like many other young Lebanese men of his age, Dichy watched the Arab defeat on the living room television with his family. The one difference: He was Jewish.It mattered little that he had no particular sympathy for the Jewish state, because later he...
Albert Dichy was 15 years old when the supervisor at his Catholic school came up to him in the playground to congratulate him on Israeli military prowess.It was June 1967.The Arab world was reeling from a major defeat in the Sinai: Egyptian tanks had been destroyed and the Israeli flag flown over Sharm al-Sheikh. In Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan’s troops were parading in front of the Western Wall.The Lebanese watched in bewilderment as the “flagrant aggression” unfolded. With school classes suspended throughout the fighting, like many other young Lebanese men of his age, Dichy watched the Arab defeat on the living room television with his family. The one difference: He was Jewish.It mattered little that he had no particular sympathy for the Jewish state, because later he...
