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There must have been a real cel-
ebration in Teheran this past
week when the ayatollas heard
about the headline on the front
page of Shevah Yamim, the Fri-
day supplement of mass circula-
tion Yediot Ahronot.
It read: "We are afraid. 75% of
Israelis fear that terror will strike
at them."
The story inside reported on a
survey carried out by two re-
spected academics, according to
whom there is both generalized
fear and very specific fears.
For example, 55 percent of the
respondents said they were
afraid to travel by bus and 8 per-
cent said they had stopped trav-
eling by bus altogether.
Moreover, 54 percent of the peo-
ple questioned said they would
understand, or at least not object,
were they to learn of people who
had decided to leave Israel be-
cause they feared terrorism.
Such reports visibly annoy
Yitzhak Berman, a Rehovot res-
ident who lived in London, dur-
ing the entire Blitz. 'The slogans
then," he recalls, "were 'business
as usual' and 'everything will 13*
O.K."'
Mr. Berman attributes the
variance in attitudes both to the
fact that stiff upper lips are more
common in Britain than they are
here and to the very different role

Does Israel's media
hype the sense
of fear?

of the media then and now. He
points out that British radio and
newspaper reports were very re-
strained.
In addition, and far more im-
portant, there was no TV to show
the carnage and highlight the
suffering in the way that local
stations do at the moment. "If
there had been television then,"
Mr. Berman goes on, "maybe
morale in London would also
have been undermined."
Even the songs being broad-
cast now come in for criticism
from the former Londoner.
"When we went down into the
shelters, night after night, we
sang cheerful ditties about the
need 'to keep on smiling;' but Is-
rael radio, immediately after a
terror attack, gives us dirges," he
complains.
Mr. Berman isn't the only one
to censure the media's handling
of the present situation. Some

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