@Alon @BenRossTransit i, like most diaspora Jews, have been willing to live with the tension between our general ideals about how a modern state should define itself and Israel, treating it hopefully as an experiment in reconciling disparate goods and values. but it's getting harder to resist a conclusion that the second intifada, and the change in the Israeli polity that trauma provoked, has shown the model simply to be unworkable in actual practice, a failure. 3/