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...Thursday night - the beginning of the weekend here - was business as usual for most people in this beach city preparing for the summer season, unmoved by the protest in Rabin Square. "The country has already moved on," said a drinker next to me in a crowded bar on Ben Yehuda street. "No one cares about the war in Lebanon anymore." With suicide bombings down and the stock market up, much of the country seems blissfully undisturbed by the growing chaos beyond its security barriers and heavily guarded borders - and by the incompetence revealed by Winograd in Israel's corridors...
...cortisol responses are also common among Holocaust survivors, rape victims and soldiers suffering from PTSD. The difference seems to be that people with PTSD are much more sensitive to cortisol at even these low levels than those with burnout. "We used to blame everything on high cortisol," says Rachel Yehuda, a neurochemist and PTSD expert at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. "Now we can blame things on low cortisol as well...
...anti-gay bandwagon has even attracted support from abroad. Rabbi Yehuda Levin, of the Orthodox Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, has been carrying out a three-year campaign against what he calls "the homosexualization of the Holy Land." It was Levin who crossed the boundaries of religious and ethnic hostility and recruited the support of prominent Palestinian Islamic cleric Taisser Tamimi against the parade. Evangelical Christian groups were also upset by what they saw as the deliberate flaunting of sexuality in Christendom's most sacred place. Says Rev. Malcolm Hedding...
...parade was cancelled last week. With the war in the north, the police claimed they couldn’t provide the many officers needed to protect the event from religious people who might disrupt it. Jerusalem, my beloved poet Yehuda Amichai once wrote, is a place where even the dead are granted the right to vote...
...When Sharon, a longtime proponent of the settlements and a key figure in the founding of Gush Katif, announced that Israel would cede some of that Biblical land, religious Zionists questioned whether the great redemption was coming, after all. ?It's an ideological and spiritual crisis,? says Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, a religious Zionist leader. ?All this faith in redemption is collapsing.? Goldschmidt, the Ganei Tal farmer, resolves that quandary simply by asserting that ?Sharon's not a Zionist any more...