Posted on 01/29/2008 9:54:25 AM PST by NYer
The country plans to deliver letters of apology to the two surviving members of the group and relatives of the deceased members for cancelling the concert back in the group's heyday.
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The reason given at the time was because the Israeli government could not afford to host the world-famous band.
But other sources suggest Israel was concerned it would not be able to cope with Beatle-mania and feared that it might corrupt the minds of Israeli fans.
"We would like to take this opportunity to rectify a historic missed opportunity which unfortunately took place in 1965 when you were invited to Israel," the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper quoted the letter as saying.
"Unfortunately the state of Israel cancelled your performance in the country due to lack of budget and because several politicians in the Knesset had believed at the time that your performance might corrupt the minds of the Israeli youth."
Israel's ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor was due to meet Julia Baird, the sister of the late John Lennon, on Monday during a visit to Liverpool.
He was expected to use the occasion to invite the surviving members to play at Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations in May this year, Yediot said.
Other copies of the letter would go out to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and the relatives of the late George Harrison.
"There is no doubt that it was a great missed opportunity to prevent people like you, who shaped the minds of the generation, to come to Israel and perform before the young generation in Israel who admired you and continues to admire you," the letter said.
An apology. Next comes reparations...
get over it??
I was just so butt hurt when they canceled the show.
Took 400 years for the Catholic Church to apologize to Galileo.
I believe Israel was a little distracted at the time by threats of extinction from six Arab nations.
Never again!
I believe Israel was a little distracted at the time by threats of extinction from six Arab nations.
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I am inclined to say that they appear quite busy right now with the same sort of issues.
Don’t they have matters more pressing than that of apologizing to the sister of that dead, drug using hater of Western civilization?
I’ve always thought so and those photos don’t help any. LOL
I have followed the Beatles ever since they made their way to America in 1964, and you could say I was a Beatlemaniac. I never knew John Lennon had a sister. I knew his mother was named Julia, for whom he named his older son.
And, what has taken so long? Sheeesh.
You forgot the sarcasm tag /s.
Hmmm... did you ever see them in the same place together?
I always thought that those ‘he’s alive again’ photos and stories at the end of the human parrot’s life were just an actor. Now I am sure of it. Lol
Do we know Ringo’s whereabouts during Arafart’s final days? :^)
Ha, touche!
That works as a bon mot, but it's not quite precise. Here's how it really happened.
Yes, there were apologies made in 1992 and again in 2000, when Pope John Paul made a point of publically lamenting all the historical wrongs committed by "children of the Church" in its 2000 year history. But that was a formalization of a regret that was voiced centuries before. Even after Galileo's first trial (1616) Riceloll and other contemporaries of Galileo were well aware --- and were permitted to declare--- that neither the pope nor any Church agency had made an anti-Copernican definition of doctrine (in other words, the heliocentric theory per se was not regarded as heretical.)
Caught up in a whirlwind of academic rivalries and church factions, a weak pope (Urban VIII) nevertheless permitted a verdict that Galileo was "vehemently suspected" of heresy. (A stupid and unjust ruling, very much the product of academic rivalries and clerical factions.) The result was that Galileo was put under "house arrest" and permitted to stay in the houses of friends, always comfortable and usually luxurious.
Galileo continued both his work and his correspondance, enjoying both popularity and notoriety, and eventually Urban VIII sent Galileo his special blessing, a reconciliation of the two old men. When he passed away just before his 80 birthday, Galileo was interred not only in consecrated ground, but within the church of Santa Croce at Florence.
Not exactly canonization, but neither did it take 400 years for the Church to say "Sorry."
No sarcasm intended regarding John Lennon.
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