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...Israeli psychiatrists and psychologists, the Yom Kippur War was a bench mark. Before it, nation building and the chronic threat of war seemed to leave little room for worry about personal emotional problems. Esteem for the psychosciences was low, at least by Western standards. Since the 1973 war, public respect for psychiatry has risen sharply. For one thing, many psychiatrists and psychologists performed heroically during the conflict: they moved to the front with the troops to deal with battle shock on the spot; behind the lines they manned crisis centers to treat soldiers and civilians alike. Their work was doubly...
...British Eighth Army against Rommel's Afrika Korps, Ismail fought in the 1948, 1956 and 1967 wars against Israel. As Arab commander in chief, he put in 20-hour days during 1973, planning the autumn strike. When the Syrian and Egyptian assaults came on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Ismail's use of water cannon to erode the sand bluffs of the Suez Canal enabled Egyptian troops to cross at unexpected points and shatter the Israeli Bar-Lev Line within six hours. At his death, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat praised Ismail as "a hero whose name...
...irony is that hundreds of thousands of Israelis are asking the very same question. In a country that has frequently been accused (even by its friends) of having a paranoid "Masada complex,"-the sense of discontent is all-pervasive. Almost like a biblical plague, the Arab attack on Yom Kippur 1973 swept away the sweet, fat, confident years that followed the 1967 war. The Israelis, having failed to win decisively, were left with a sense of defeat. The indecisive outcome of the war also uncovered a number of festering problems that had been obscured by the post-1967 boom...
...Moslem observance of the month of fasting called Ramadan coincided with Yom Kippur, Judaism's most sacred day. So did the start of the October war. This year Ramadan coincided with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year's Day. There was no recurrence of open warfare, but Israeli jets did attack villages in the mountainous border region of southern Lebanon known as the Arqub. Since 1969, this area, which fans out from the slopes of Mount Hermon, has been known as "Fatahland" because Palestinian guerrillas regularly cross it from havens in Syria to infiltrate the Israeli border...
...doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress, merely seems to be: "Get this behind me so that I can get on with writing my memoirs and tell that I was right in the first place." Even on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement that falls next week, sins against one's fellow man are not pardoned unless the sinner begs forgiveness from those he has wronged...