Take a look at the news coverage of mass protests throughout the Arab world and you will see regional maps pointing to turmoil from Tunisia to Bahrain.  Except in a tiny, barely visible country wedged between Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt -- Israel.And that points up a major oversight in daily reports from the Middle East -- that virtually alone, Israel is an island of tranquility in a sea of rising and spreading turbulence.  How come?For some answers, here's a monthly poll, known as the Peace Index, that takes the political temperature of Israel -- Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs -- on a range of current hot-button topics, first and foremost a February gauge that measures Israeli expectations of how they're apt to fare in a radically changed Middle East.No surprise that on some issues, Jews and Arabs in Israel party company.  For example, 70 percent of the country's Jews have low expectations that  Egypt will emerge as a full-fledged democracy.  In marked...(Read Full Post)