Israel is self-destructing

This will be a hard read for some, but it's accurate. Israel can still save itself, but it won't be easy and the current leadership cannot do it. Radical moves are needed.

Jewish settlers on the hill have democratic rights; their West Bank Arab neighbors in the valley do not (Dan Perry photo)

Perched on hilltops in the middle of the Holy Land is Beitar Illit, a town of 70,000 devout Jews living in cookie-cutter red-roofed apartment blocs and spending their days in an extraordinary manifestation of devotion to religious ri…