Fisk: Netanyahu is Leading Israel Into Isolation
Source: The Independent
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?
