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...Oslo peace process began eight years ago. Where was Abdullah during the prime ministerships of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres? And, most crucially, where was Abdullah just 19 months ago, when the most dovish leader in Israel's history, Ehud Barak, offered an astonishingly generous peace at Camp David, and the Saudis, begged by President Clinton to weigh in with Arafat on the side of peace, did nothing of the sort...
...domestic political pressure that, over more than a decade, created overwhelming political pressure in Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. The very fact of the soldiers' action may be further evidence that the political pendulum in Israel that swung dramatically from the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu to the dovish Ehud Barak in 1999, and then back to the hawkish Sharon a year later, has once again reached its apex...
...yoram barak brushes past some purple bougainvillea and unlocks the heavy door to one of the psychogeriatric wards at Abarbanel. It's a hut built by the British army to handle mentally disturbed World War II soldiers. "If you'd been stuck in this place for 50 years, you wouldn't be doing very well, believe me," Barak says. Inside, old people in thin hospital smocks sprawl on the floor tiles to keep cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move...
...When Barak came to Abarbanel four years ago, he found 67% of his patients were Holocaust survivors - compared to barely a third of Israel's over-60s generally. A similar imbalance was found in the country's other mental hospitals. Decades of using antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol and Thorazine hadn't worked. In the lobby of the survivors' ward, patients still shake uncontrollably and grind their jaws grotesquely from the side effects of such drugs. Barak changed the diagnosis of schizophrenia attached to most of the 120 survivors in his ward to "long-term post-traumatic psychosis." With Szor...
Psychiatrists like Barak had to fight more than just a bad diagnosis made decades ago. They were up against a Zionist ideology that saw Holocaust victims as weaklings who had gone "like sheep to the slaughter" - unlike the strong "new Jew" Israel's founders hoped to create. Holocaust survivors were treated with contempt in their new country. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a reparations deal with West Germany in 1953 for DM 3 billion, then worth around $700 million. Israel agreed to give the money to survivors already in Israel; Germany would pay for those who arrived...