We Israelis must have a record for traveling around the world.  Every time there are a few days off, we’re at the airport.  But since the war we’ve all seemed to have hunkered down.  The fear of antisemitism is part of it, but there’s also a feeling of patriotism that I can’t remember.  My students used to tell me they were too bored to vote, and now they have been given up their weekends demonstrating for over a year. 

And although ivy league students may shout about Apartheid, I swear I deal with more Arabs every day than Jews.