Word: harkabi
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...from it.'' Once when the columnist Stewart Alsop wrote that the Israelis have a ''Masada complex,'' a besieged mentality, preferring collective suicide to surrender, Prime Minister Golda Meir replied, ''It is true. We do have a Masada complex. We have a pogrom complex. We have a Hitler complex.'' Yehoshafat Harkabi, once the chief of Israeli military intelligence and now a professor of international relations at the Hebrew University, has one of the clearer minds in the Middle East. He sits in his study at dusk, on Bar Kokhba, a street in Jerusalem named for the leader of a catastrophic Jewish...
...argument that it cannot exist without the West Bank.'' It is almost dark in Harkabi's study. His face almost vanishes in the dusk, and one sees only his nimbus of white hair. ''Jewish wisdom always dealt with interpersonal problems,'' he goes on, ''and not with how a state should live with other states. We must learn to think internationally, to distinguish between grand design and policy. The Arabs' grand design may be still to destroy Israel, but their policy is different. We must deal not with the Arabs' vicious dreams, but with their policies. ''We must reopen the national...
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