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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Libyan anti-Israel postage stamps

This is the third in a series

As far as I can tell, no one has ever compiled an illustrated list of anti-Israel postage stamps since the 1970s.



Libya's first stamps on the topic, as far as I can tell, was this 1971 series promoting Fatah terrorism:



There was a 1977 series called "Palestinian Fighters and their Families" but I do not have any images.

In 1979 and 1982 they had some pro-Palestinian Arab stamps that were not explicitly anti-Israel, such as Palestinian Children's Day.

Their stamps promoting "International Day of Cooperation with Palestinian People" would typically draw maps that erased Israel from 1983, 1984 and 1985:





In 1978 the stamps explicitly called for the destruction of Israel by war:



These stamps were to commemorate the "Anti-Israel Summit Conference" in Bahdad in December, 1978.

1986 continued the theme of violent pan-Arab war to destroy Israel:



The first intifada provided more stamps romanticizing violence, a theme that continued even during the Oslo process. This 1988 stamps shows rocks and Molotov cocktails - the "non-violent" resistance we hear so much about:



1992

1989
1994

1995
1996 - rock throwing