Our best boys will fall. In other words, get them out of our sight. Many people can be convinced by such arguments, although they smell heavily of racism. But such slogans do not generate enthusiasm. The opposite camp lives in a permanent state of ecstasy.
People there are always excited.
They sing, they dance. The mixture of extreme nationalism and religious fanaticism make a potent brew. Right-wingers may be ready to die for their belief, they have already proven that they are ready to kill. During the days of Camp David, it did not succeed in mobilizing even ten thousand demonstrators to encourage Barak and spurn him on. Most Israelis are somehow ready for a settlement, but enthusiasm there is none.