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However, former Chief of Military Intelligence Chaim Herzog, who represents a minority view, thinks that garrisoning U.S. soldiers in Israel or stationing the U.S. Sixth Fleet at Haifa "makes good sense." After all, he says, "Israel's own deterrent has not prevented the last two wars...
...temporary forward camp inside Syria, we encountered Chaim Topol -the movie star who played Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof. As soon as the war started, Topol rushed home from London to volunteer his services. He was assigned to be an escort officer for visiting correspondents. The soldiers who crowded round the actor were not disappointed. "I took some correspondents to the Sinai the other day," he told the men, grinning. "When we got close to the shooting, one of them said that he had to get back to Tel Aviv because he had a deadline." The soldiers...
...problem comes," says Sociologist Chaim Adler, "when the child from the 'Oriental' family looks at his peer. The two serve together in the army as equals. But then one goes to work, while the other goes to the university. The son from the uncultured home forgets that his family used to live in a tent and now lives securely in an apartment. He only sees the son of the cultured home who is living three times better than he, and he wants the same...
Zombie. Another problem is what Manhattan Psychoanalyst Chaim Shatan calls the emotional anesthesia of captivity, a kind of psychological numbing that deadens feeling. Explains Los Angeles Psychiatrist Helen Tausend: "Many prisoners learn to cope with their situation by setting up low-key reactions in themselves-a kind of little death to save themselves from a bigger death." Back in the outside world, they often display a "zombie reaction"-apathy, withdrawal, lack of spontaneity and suppression of individuality. The symptoms often disappear quickly, but Shatan estimates that they can easily last three years. To a certain extent, he says, "You never...
PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE PARLOR. Rebirth of Soviet Jewry, a Sabbath Table Talk by Chaim Spivakovsky...