Nevertheless, it is helpful to read about Israel’s flawed democracy (no disrespect intended), where the Supreme Court and the Office of the Attorne-General seem to be the handmaiden of Labour, and corruption, it is alleged, can reach up into the nation’s highest offices. Like Caroline, the approach the Government took to the Gaza withdrawal was, I believe, a betrayal of those who had been there for decades (some since 1948, or even earlier).

Maybe it was a simple recognition of reality – a Judenrein Gaza was, after all what the Arabs wanted. (Next on their wish-list, of course, is a Judenrein “West Bank” and then “Israel”!)

Having said all that, Israel lives as a functioning democracy in the midst of a 60 year (mostly “hot”) war with genocidal, anti-democratic neighbours. Its challenges today will be to neutralise the fresh radicalism of Gaza, stare down the Iranian theocracy when no-one else in the world seems to be giving it any serious attention, and unify its society by building respect for its own survival amongst the many Israelis who can’t even support a two-state option – they’ve moved on to the one-state option (a “secular” Palestine) where Jews revert to dhimmitude under a beneficent caliphate.

Perhaps Sharon and Peres, by shaking Israel’s political landscape, will be doing everybody a favour – I just wish there was a clearer plan laid out – or one that I could discern, anyway.

IMO, David Horovitz, who became editor-in-chief of the JPost when Bret Stephens left for the WSJ, started out center-left, but he’s been shifting rightward, and I think it has a lot to do with Glick’s solid analysis.