Israel vs. Utopia

Israeli American journalist Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows and the image of it in the minds of Americans. Israel is a synonym for many things: the ancestral home of the Jewish people, the hell of the Palestinians; the realization of a centuries-old dream of freedom, and the heart of the War on Terror. No country inspires as much debate about its rights and wrongs, its legitimacy and illegitimacies, than Israel. Historically associated with Europe, such debate finally became co