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Says Amnon Rubenstein, 41, a Sabra who is dean of the Tel Aviv University Law School: "For me, as for my friends, our standing as natives of Israel crowned us with a tint of nobility. We were the first generation of the deliverance, Hebrew children who did not know what anti-Semitism was. We were tanned, cheeky and free-the diametrical opposite of the Diaspora child, who was pale, white and frightened...
Today's typical Sabra is tough, proud and seemingly unemotional. "Our children are ashamed to be ashamed," an Israeli psychoanalyst once observed. "They are afraid to be afraid." The Israeli-born Jew is also a bit weary of hearing about the sufferings of the Diaspora, if not openly scornful of the Diaspora Jew's passive acceptance of his fate...
...novel. War Is Not for Heroes, Ehud Ben-Ezer expressed a far different emotion that also reflects the ambiguity of the Sabra attitude. Before dying in battle, Ben-Ezer's young war hero declares, "We have become slaves of the sword, not masters of it. And in order to protect ourselves against the cruelty outside, we have become narrow-minded and cruel in our own homes." Within the heart of the Sabra, it has been said, Athens and Sparta are forever...
...comparable to those that the Jews had in Russia, poor housing, inadequate cultural facilities and the easygoing permissiveness of life in modern secular Israel. Although most of the disenchanted emigrants are not religiously observant, they were shocked that a Jewish state would tolerate nudity in films and bikini-clad Sabra girls on beaches. They were also upset by the permissiveness of Israeli schools. Mamishvalov sums it up succinctly: "No discipline. Children shout. Teacher has skirts to here; boys in class look there. Teacher smokes. This is not education...
...group is revolutionary socialist and condemns Jewish colonialists for seizing all of Palestine from the Arabs. Two years ago, Adiv formed the Revolutionary Communist Alliance-Red Front, which has world revolution as an ill-defined goal, and enrolled a dozen members. Among them were Dan Vered, 28, a fellow Sabra and a high school math teacher in the small town of Kfar Saba east of Tel Aviv; David Kupfer, 26, a sometime petty thief and burglar as well as a dedicated Communist; and Yeheskel Cohen, 30, an Iraqi-born hotel clerk who speaks six languages...