Israel is worth saving

Many states are hard to justify and would not be missed, but a world in which Israel was destroyed or replaced by a theocracy would be a lesser place

Tel Aviv from the sky (Dan Perry)

(Originally appeared in the Times of Israel)

My rebukes of Israeli policy have whipped up a small but zealous army of critics who view me as an inveterate critic with knee-jerk opposition to whatever the country does. They’re wrong.

It’s true that I’ve taken on two policies that in my analysis have put Israel on the path t…