Israelis are congratulating themselves on the
success of their Iron Dome missile shield. But across Israel these past
years has fallen a different kind of iron dome, one that isolates the
country rather than protects it, which shields its people from the
realities of the Middle East, from Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon
and the rest of the Arab world. The country's liberal elite fear this
isolation and the soullessness it has created. How else can one account
for the government minister who proposed "sending Gaza back to the
Middle Ages" or the accusations against Israeli model Bar Refaeli that
she was "an enemy of the people" because she merely prayed "for the
welfare of the citizens on both sides" during last week's Gaza war?
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