@Alon i hope you are right about turning against, soon. my impression from my own limited contacts is much more defensiveness and a sense of unfair portrayal than acknowledgement that Israel has turned itself into a pariah in the eyes and hearts of many people once sympathetic by its own, actual, not-al-jazeera-fabricated choices. i just presume, qua the quote, that they are shielded by a bubble of patriotic media. if that’s not the case, i don’t know what to think frankly.