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acceptance of security checks at malls, the-
aters and restaurants. Druvan applauds
these methods born of necessity in her
home country, though her praise is rueful.
"We ran away from Israel because of
this," she says, brown eves bleary with
unspilled tears.
At the offices of FlatRate Moving,
on Maiden Lane. a few blocks from
what was the World Trade Center,
general manager Mitchell Zafrany,
37, discusses the error of believing
that Israel and the U.S.'s destinies
aren't intertwined.
"It's not 20 people with box cutters
out there. Its a cultural war that
requires not just investigation but a
preemptive fight. Israel knows very
well it faces an existential threat.
What America needs to recognize is
that it shares in this conflict."
Some of Zafrany's staff witnessed
scenes so disturbing that even former
Israeli combat soldiers remained at
home in the days of the World Trade
Center aftermath, deeply shaken.
Although he has a wide breadth of
political knowledge, Zafrany falls
silent in contemplation of how Israelis
and Americans are supposed to sur-
vive terrorism mentally and spiritually.
"That is the hardest part," he
admits. "No one knows the answer."
Nir David, 23, formerly of Tel Aviv
and now of Brooklyn, says Israelis sur-

wive mentally because they are immune,
anesthetized by repetition of the same
tragic scenes. Action, however, is a
release valve for the hardest emotions.
"Our way is to do something. We
serve in the army, or do milouirn," says
David, referring to the annual one
month of military service demanded
of male citizens.
The theme of immunity recurs in
conversation \Vith Israelis from all
walks of life.
Dabbas, the father in Sea Gate,
waves away questions about how his
mother Margaret, who arrived from
Israel only 10 ten days ago, feels about
the American disaster. "She's used to
it," he answers, a sentiment she con-
firms with a few curt words in Hebrew
and a shrug. They both stress that the
Israeli approach is to just get on with
life as quickly and as best as possible.
While Americans may interpret
Israelis' pragmatic, get-back-to-busi-
ness approach as emotional sterility,
Ron Rubinstein, 27, of Tel Aviv sent
an email to friends in Brooklyn the
day after the attack explaining how he
sees a return to normalcy as the most
powerful weapon against terrorism.
"This kind of warfare," he writes, "is
intended to provoke nervous collapse.
By remaining who you are, you prove
that you will win no matter what they
try to do to you."

of Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera Television, the popular
Arab network that broadcasts from the
Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar, recently
was granted a lengthy exclusive inter-
view with bin Laden that sheds light
on the psychology of the most wanted
terrorist in history.
In the best of Arab tradition, the
interview was held in a tent, with both
interviewer and interviewee sitting on
carpets.

world, it is legitimate to hate
Westerners and fight them. By exten-
sion, according to his own statements,
"Every American who tries to hurt
Islam is a legitimate target."
According to Western intelligence
officials, Al Qaida's base is located in
Afghanistan, where bin Laden settled
five years ago after he was expelled
from Sudan. From there, its tentacles
stretch all over the world.
Al Qaida is thought to be involved
in a number of international conflicts,
having given support to Muslim fight-
ers in Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan,
Somalia, Yemen and Kosovo.
Bin Laden is happy that at least one
Muslim nation has a nuclear capabili-
ty.
In his interview with Al Jazeera
Television, he spoke with pride that
Pakistan has an "Islamic bomb."
"We don't need to apologize for hav-
ing a nuclear potential," he said in the
interview. It is our right. With Israel
in possession of hundreds of nuclear
warheads, with American and Western
nuclear hegemony in the world, it is
definitely our right." 7

We Vs. Them

With his rifle nearby, bin Laden enun-
ciated his belligerent world view in a
soft-spoken manner.
"There are two sides to this con-
flict," he said, with a half-smile.
"America, Israel, and 'Crusader' coun-
tries like England that want to rule the
world, on one hand, and Islam on the
other hand."
As his words made clear, bin Laden's
world is conveniently divided into "us"
and "them.
Because, according to his view, the
West wants to control the rest of the

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