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...planes sit there, and you go boom-boom--like practice. The air war is very clean, you know. There are no bodies. Sometimes you see soldiers running, no more. In Syria it was more difficult--lots of anti-air-craft." In Syria it was also less anti-septic, for Nadav at least. Returning from runs, he flew through the smoke spiraling off of Ayeleth's burning fields and storage bins. "I thought the whole kibbutz was burning," recalls Nadav. "It made me very mad. Then I wanted to kill them...
...works, Nadav makes effortless and intelligent conversation. His English grammar is only fair, but the range of his vocabulary is astounding. ("I learned to speak from foreigners," says Nadav. "From foreign girls," chimes in a friend, and Nadav only smiles...
Though best in math during his school years. Nadav will talk about almost anything. "The Americans are good but naive," he says. "In Vietnam, they try to help people but they don't know how." He has just read a book on Mongolia, which he liked very much, and offers to lend it out. He does not hate the Arabs--except for the Syrians--or laugh at their ludicrous performance in the air. How can you fix or fly a plane, he queries, when you never see a machine most of your life...
...Syrians are a different breed. "They are not like human beings," contends Nadav. Early in the Syrian campaign, he relates, but after one of the numerous U.N. agreements on a cease-fire, the Syrians lynched two Israeli pilots on the streets of Damascus, then broadcast the hangings over Damascus T.V. so the Israelis could share the spectacle. In retaliation, the Israeli air force demolished the T.V. station. The Syrians charged a cease-fire violation. In Nadav's eyes, it was only justice...
...Nadav's air-force room-mate is still a Syrian captive and he confesses he is deeply worried. For Nadav, the war is still not over--not until his roommate crosses the border alive. Eventually in late August, he is returned--with the bodies of two other fliers...