From time immemorial, Jews have disagreed about how to deal with their problems. Differences were expressed strongly when the Israelites who had just left Pharaoh’s Egypt complained to Moses that he had taken them away to die in the wilderness. Three thousand years later, the contemporary Israelites who have converted that wilderness into a miracle in the desert are still strongly divided on domestic and international issues and on the nature of their response to unremitting hostility or to criticism by the United States administration and European leaders. The current differences within Israel were prominently displayed during and after its parliamentary election on March 17, 2015. Holding a wide variety of views, 25 parties competed for the 120 seats in the Knesset, and ten parties gained some. The result, that refuted public opinion polls, was a comfortable if not decisive victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now Israel’s second longest serving prime...(Read Full Article)