Article: More men of peace, like Eban, are needed now.(News)

Byline: Ray Hanania

Abba Eban snuffed out a stogy and joined me on the set of a nationally syndicated program hosted by veteran newspaperman Irv Kupcinet.

So much separated Eban and myself that day on Dec. 2, 1977. We were invited to debate the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement and Mideast conflict.

At 62, Eban was Israel's most eloquent spokesman. He served as Israel's first ambassador to the United Nations and a decade as foreign minister. I was a 24-year-old college student, Air Force Vietnam-era veteran and the spokesman for the Arab American Congress for Palestine. The FBI was providing security to Eban, while they were completing a ...

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