Foreign Correspondent Taps "Crazy Vibe"

Tzipi Shmilovitz noticed something about how people in the U.S. think about the war their government has waged for decades: They don’t.Shmilovitz notices a lot about the U.S., because that’s her day job: She has covered the U.S. for the past eight years as a correspondent for Israel’s largest-circulation newspaper, Yediot Ahronot. She works out of New Haven; she moved here from New York last year.In her native land, all citizens, men and women alike, are required (with some exceptions) to serve in the military — unlike in the U.S., which relies on a volunteer army.As a result, Shmilovitz observed, “Americans don’t see war up close. It doesn’t happen. You’ve got a war in Afghanistan, it’s been 20 years, and most people completely forgot about it. In Israel, you can’t forget about war. Because it’s right here.“Very few people really pay the price of war in America. It’s not mandatory service. They see things on TV. It looks like a movie. You don’t understand that this is ‘our guys’ and ‘our families.’”Shmilovitz shared some of her observations of our country through the lens of a foreign correspondent during an appearance on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”“Coming from Israel, I’m in no position to call any country crazy. But America is crazy!” she remarked.“I think this is a continuous struggle between two Americas that never really got over the Civil War. We’re going a little backwards, a little sideways. That is the beauty of America; that is why I like it so much. This is a very strange experiment, unlike anything you’ve seen anywhere in the world. You’ve got a lot of people who you don’t think should be living together because they believe in completely different things. Somehow this is working. Right now it’s a glitch. But I still

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