In my book “Modern Political Terrorism”, I attempt to explain that there are usually three parties involved in domestic or political abuse.(Published by Richard Altschuler & Associates 2007).

A model posing the triad of predator, victim, and caretaker, applies both at the individual or community level.

Since Israel was established as a sovereign State in 1948, despite continuous boycotts and sanctions from the U.N., Europe and many of the African and Muslim States, it was always able to look to the United States as its lone reliable source of support, emotionally, diplomatically, and materially.

Throughout the Jewish exile, protection of the Jewish nation by a benevolent “Super-Power” provided a certain respite after so many centuries of relentless persecution.

Unlike Russia and China, after winning wars, the United States never attempted to convert, assert authority over, or impose its culture or religious beliefs over anyone.

Not only did West Germany, Japan, and Western Europe thrive after WWII, but the United States also took it upon itself, at an enormous cost, to defend these countries against future threats.

Furthermore, after the Korean War, she took a pledge to defend South Korea, in addition to her Defense Pact with Japan and Taiwan, to defend them against the threats posed by North Korea, a puppet state of China, and even China itself.

South Korea would be swallowed up by North Korea and China were it not for the protection of the “Benevolent Superpower”- America

Israel also fell under this umbrella of “specially favored nation” status.

The main point of this is that American goodwill, by and large, has provide a rare instance in contemporary history of good caretaker functioning.

Considering the growing menace of communism by Russia and China,

American caretaking of its weaker democratic allies required a lot of posturing, military innovation, and clever diplomacy to maintain a check on predators such as the Soviet Union.

A testimony to that success is that the dreaded WWIII never happened.

Despite the common belief that America was “always there” for the Jewish nation, I will cite two instances illustrating this to be somewhat of an illusion.

One can begin by examining existing historical archives, such as the minutes of diplomatic exchanges leading to the summit held in Bermuda in 1942.

December 17th, 1942 saw the announcement in the British House of Commons, the United Nations, and a declaration broadcast in 23 languages to all Nazi-occupied Europe announcing that the systematic extermination of European Jews had already claimed the lives of two million Jews.

However, as thousands continued to be gassed each day using the poison Zyklon-B, London and Washington responded with a thundering silence. (“The Final Solution: The attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945” Gerald Reitlinger New York, 1961).

This appears not to have escaped Netanyahu’s attention when he spoke at a gathering on Holocaust Commemoration day at Auschwitz.

He noted “that just a tilt of the wing” of Allied Bombers could easily have taken out the railways to the death camps.

At a deeper level, Netanyahu was noting that this “negligence of inaction” during the holocaust did not go unnoticed.

In Golda Meir’s Autobiography (Futura Publications, 1975), it is apparent that the message communicated by Netanyahu was lost to her.

For several weeks prior to the Yom Kippur War, Meir had become concerned about the continuous build-up of Syrian troops on the Northern Front and the rapid evacuations of Russian advisers. However, former Chiefs of Staff, Moshe Dayan and Chaim Bar-Lev, as well as the Americans, reassured her that the chances of a sneak-attack were “far from certain”.

Her suspicions remained so high, however, that she called an emergency meeting of the War Cabinet on Friday October 5.

By eight o` clock on Yom Kippur night the meeting began.

David Elazar, Chief of Staff, recommended mobilization of the entire airforce and four divisions.

Moshe Dayan recommended a more limited call-up, arguing that a full mobilization before a shot was fired would provide the world with an excuse to call Israel the aggressors.

Meir recounts that she would follow Dayan’s approach of considering world opinion and showing restraint.

“If we strike first we will get no help from anyone”. She then called in the U.S. Ambassador, Kenneth Keating, for a meeting.

“I told him two things:

1) According to our Intelligence, the enemy attacks would start late in afternoon

2) We would not make a pre-emptive strike. Maybe something could be done to avert a war by U.S. intervention”.

While they were still in the meeting, the military secretary burst into the room with the news that the shooting had started.

On October 7th, a day after Israel was attacked, General Dayan returned from one of his tours to inform the Prime Minister that the situation in the south was “so bad that there should be a substantial pull-back”.

“The Egyptians had crossed the Suez Canal, and our forces in the Sinai had been battered”.

The Syrians had also deeply penetrated the Golan Heights.

“On both fronts casualties were very high. There was also the burning question as to whether we should tell the nation how bad the situation really was”.

Meir continues:

“I was calling Ambassador Simcha Dinitz in Washington throughout the day and night”.

“Where was the airlift? Why was it not underway?”

Adds Meir: “The story has already been published of that delay. Of the U.S. Defense Department’s initial reluctance to send military supplies-when all the time huge transports of Soviet aid were being brought by sea and air to Egypt and Syria”.

Israeli aircraft were being rapidly depleted, “not in air battles but to Soviet missiles”.

Two British authors, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, in “Dangerous Liaison”, (New York: Harper Collins 1991), also explain what happened, but based on confidential information obtained from retired American and British intelligence sources.

As a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department’s Nazi-hunting unit, John Loftus had unprecedented access to top-secret CIA and NATO archives.

In their National Bestseller “The Secret War against the Jews” (John Loftus and Mark Aarons, 1994, St Martin’s Griffin,1994), the authors inform us of the extent of a shadowy sub-narrative.

I have extracted a small sample of this as it pertains to the 1974 Yom Kippur War:

“The Arabs were oversupplied with weapons from the soviets, while the United States sat on their hands until it should have been too late”.

Meir states later in the memoirs in her memoirs that “Today I know what I should have done”.

The Investigative report by Loftus and Aarons based on the acquisition and decoding of top-secret documents, and twelve years of interviews with over five hundred former spies and Intelligence agents is difficult to refute.

In fact, the failure to respond to Israel’s needs at a time of mortal crisis during WWII was played out once again during the Yom Kippur War, and is more evident today than ever before.

It corresponds well with Golda Meir’s autobiography.

Moreover, it serves as an illustration of how inadequate leadership by Israeli leaders (the nation’s caretakers) during a time of crises placed the Jewish nation in peril.

Golda Meir’s failure to act decisively makes more sense when looking at the picture through the database of decoded U.S. Intelligence.

To return to Aarons and Loftus:

According to confidential interviews with former employees at the National Security Agency (NSA), “The Soviet Ambassador in Cairo was told by the Egyptians on October 3rd of Egypt’s intentions to violate the ceasefire”.

According to these sources, “the Soviet Consulate’s cables to Moscow were immediately deciphered by the NSA.

Furthermore, according to former intelligence officers, the Nixon White House ordered the NSA to sit on the information. “We knew it (the sneak attack) was coming. We knew when. We knew where. We were told to shut up and let it happen.”

According to Loftus and Aarons, while front-line Israeli units were being crushed, Kissinger was conveniently absent, “sitting incommunicado at the Waldorf Astoria in New York”.

On October 12, oil companies sent a letter to Nixon that military aid to Israel would have a “critical and adverse effect on our relations with moderate oil producing Arab countries”.

“While the oil talks dragged on, Israelis were being slaughtered and the White House dithered. When the Jews begged for the spare parts they had been promised, they were told that no American Airline was willing to fly to a war zone”.

By the third day of the war, the American games had cost Israel heavily. Several thousand soldiers had died, and over 500 Israeli tanks destroyed, while Soviet SAM missiles continued to cripple the Israeli Airforce.

At this point (October 8th), Commanders of the Israeli Army reported that in another four days their guns would fall silent.

Moshe Dayan is reported to have said, “Everything is lost” (Hersh, “The Sampson option”, Random House 1991 pg 223) and plans were made for Meir and her friends to commit suicide. (Dan Reviv and Yossi Melman, “The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community”, 1989, pg 211).

The Soviets, who had completely penetrated Israeli communications, were relaying to the Arabs the despair within the inner circle of Golda Meir’s advisers. They were now encouraging the Arabs to press on for a knockout blow.

The relevance of this narrative is to illustrate the extent of “Caretaker failure”: Israel’s leaders were more willing to commit suicide than save their nation- since the measures that were required to save the country would have involved upsetting the gentiles.

In the Yom Kippur War, Israel was saved by the actions of Divine providence, primarily through the insubordination of a Righteous Gentile.

According to former U.S. Intelligence Agents, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, who had served in a Relief Camp in West Germany as a young officer following the liberation of Hitler’s Death Camps, was sickened by what he saw.

When Kissinger and Defense Secretary Schlesinger waited until October 10th to begin shipping supplies to Israel to commence on the 14th, Haig realized that Israel would be crushed before emergency military supplies ever reached the battlefront.

“As a result, he began making policy behind Kissinger’s back”.

The U.S Army had just developed a tube-launched, optically tracked wire-guided missile known as the T.O.W. Fired from a foxhole it could it could destroy a moving tank three kilometers away. The “kill-ratio” for the TOW was 97%.

The information obtained by Loftus and Aarons continues that

“While Kissinger and Schlesinger were playing games with Israel, Haig was stripping every TOW Missile off the eastern seaboard of the United States, and shipping them to Israel via Germany”.

Authorizing the release and distribution of Tows on October 14th could have cost Haig his career, since it was in total defiance of U.S. policy.

As the Arabs opened their final assault on Israel, the TOWS were deployed for the first time by a country on the verge of defeat.

The unexpected reversal in this final onslaught was a key element in changing the outcome in Israel’s favor.

Based on interviews with former Israeli Intelligence members and military attaches, Seymour Hersh concludes:

“There was widespread rage toward the Whitehouse, aimed especially at Henry Kissinger-over what was correctly perceived as an American Strategy to delay the resupply as an attempt to let the Arabs win…. territory, self-respect, and a platform for serious land-bargaining”

(The Sampson option).

The blueprint of this mythology is that Israel needs to “make painful territorial concessions” in order to earn the goodwill of the United States.

Political Scientists and military strategists are welcome to comment on the results of the accumulative effects to date emanating from all of the Accords beginning with Camp David, through Oslo, Taba, the Wye Accords, and a liturgy of other concessions culminating in the evacuation of Gaza.

This background history check shows a continued pattern of collective predatorial attacks followed by threats, demands, and further demonizing of the Jewish State.

The ultimate genocidal plan, which I now see unfolding against the Jewish Nation, I would characterize as “Ideological Terrorism”.

I would like to apply the model of “Caretaker collusion and betrayal” to the policy which lures the victim into territorial and strategic concessions via a unified international threat of isolation.

This form of blackmail is already in effect in the form of diplomatic isolation, scientific, academic, and military isolation, as well as economic boycotts.

Despite endless land concessions, prisoner releases, and the dismantlement of security outposts, the world today stands unified in its collective moral support for Islamic terrorists.

From the perspective of the relationship-dynamics underlying trauma, the State of Israel appears to continue its belief in the United States as the good “Caretaker” to the extent that it is once again willing to place itself in mortal danger.

Once again she stands on the brink, preferring to use a “soft approach” to endear itself to whom?

This is reminiscent of the “Stockholm syndrome” in which the hostage is willing to adopt the belief-system of his captor in exchange for the life that the captor continues to allow him.

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This article is dedicated to Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin

Growing up in South Africa, Dr Brian Trappler experienced something about Apartheid from a dimension that few outsiders know about.

While his parents were politically “liberal”, he was raised as an Orthodox Jew.

Life was legally segregated but strong bonds existed between people of all races and ethnicities.

While the extensive rural Afrikaans strongholds kept the country in a political chokehold, sustaining the rule by the white “Nationalist Party Government” educated Afrikaners such as the late Christian Barnard were politically liberal.

The way Apartheid was practiced and enforced created the ambience of a Police State.

There was also government control, censorship, and random house- arrests for political trouble-makers, who were often Jewish.

This, in turn, stirred the coals of anti-Semitism by many in the Afrikaans community, who happened also to have supported Hitler’s Nazi Germany during the war.

But he felt, very much (despite this “political occupation”) connected to the land where his Great-Grandmother, Sarah Margolioth, had made home after fleeing the pogroms in Poland in 1902.

Attending WITS University in Johannesburg, Dr Trappler was mesmerized by the wisdom, dedication, and love-of-healing exposed to him at the Johannesburg General Hospital.

After graduating, he spent three years as a House-Officer in Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, and Intensive Coronary Care.

By this time he had published articles in a diversity of medical subjects, particularly in the area of cardiac muscle function, and endocrine and metabolic responses to cardiac failure. His articles were published in the British Medical Journal, Lancet, Journal of Endocrinology, and South African Medical Journal.

Leaving his family at the age of 26 to settle in the United States he was not given the option to apply his cardiology skills.

Instead, in 1978, openings available at University Hospitals were scarce for foreign graduates.

None of the options were close to what he wanted. But with the Blessing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he chose psychiatry.

Completing a psychiatric residency at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, he moved to Brooklyn, where he completed a two year Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine.

While completing his rabbinical studies he attached himself to one of the most prominent neurologists in Brooklyn at the time, Dr Lapovsky.

Dr Lapovsky was in his 80`s at the time. “A majority of his patients were holocaust survivors, many were depressed, and required periodic shock-treatment, and he conducted his rounds in Yiddish”.

He continued to work in Neurology and Psychiatry from 1983 until 1988.

This was Dr Trappler`s first introduction to “The effects of trauma on the aged” a subject where Dr Trappler is now, 30 years later, regarded as a world authority. Dr. Trappler has spent most of his career treating Holocaust survivors.

In 1988, Dr Trappler was approached by Dr Gene Endicott and agreed to take a position in biological research at Columbia University at the New York Psychiatric Institute, where he remained until 1994.

He then became Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the State University of New York in Brooklyn.

In this capacity,

  • He was in charge of half of the psychiatric patients on an inpatient unit established using a “milieu therapy” model
  • Patients with serious conditions including Borderline Personality,

and childhood abuse, sometimes remained on the unit for many months

  • The unit was regarded by the State as being one of the ten best training centers in New York State for individual, group, and milieu therapy
  • He simultaneously served as Block Director in Psychopathology at SUNY
  • He served as Deputy Medical Director of the Anxiety Clinic
  • He functioned as Deputy Director of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • He taught clinical pharmacology
  • He represented the department on the Neuroscience Steering Committee
  • At he request of the Dean of the Medical School he joined a neuroscience sub-committee which innovated an integrated Case Based Learning model for Neuroscience at SUNY Downstate

In the area of trauma-recovery,

  • In 1994 he treated the victims of the Brooklyn Bridge shooting under a grant from the Office of Mental Health
  • On September 11, 2001, he worked as a first responder for survivors of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers.

· Dr Trappler`s original research, as well as case reports and letters to editors have been published in various peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

His various clinical research findings have been presented at National Conventions, including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Geriatric Psychiatric Association.

. He has served as a Journal Referee for the following journals:

· Journal of Clinical Psychology

· Journal of Traumatic Stress

· Annals of Pharmacotherapy

· Acta Scandinavia.

Until now Dr Trappler has limited his activities to the academic environment but has now developed a Website where patents and clinicians alike have the opportunity to read his material in the form of short articles or blogs, subscribe to articles or e-books, or get his opinion about a trauma-related problem.

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