Word: yehoshafat
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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...
...dusty sofa beside the shipping container where one of their number lives, the young men pass the wine and play with the red-laser sight of a Glock pistol. Yehoshafat lights another cheap cigarette, combing his long, square beard with dirty fingers and pulling his big, knitted yarmulke down to his eyes. Yair eats a slice of barbecued lamb with his hands. Elisha points through the silent darkness to the lights of nearby Israeli settlements and tells the story of King David's meeting with his wife Avigail in the valley below. The hilltop, settled by a few youngsters...
Late in the night at Avigail, Yehoshafat runs through a list of erev rav that ranges from Jewish kapos, who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust, to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence group. "Esau always wants to hurt Jacob," he says, referring to the biblical enmity between the wicked son of Isaac and his good brother, whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away...
...given courses in first aid, and schoolchildren are instructed in how to identify mines. Cinema ushers and janitors are undergoing training to learn how to take precautions against bombs. In a treatise on El Fatah to be published next month by London's Institute for Strategic Studies, Yehoshafat Harkabi, a former chief of Israeli intelligence, warns that "subversion may become a feature of our lives for a length of time that no one can foresee. It might become like the toll of traffic accidents modern societies have to pay." Over the long run, there is perhaps a danger that...
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