On the editorial pages of this newspaper, for example, Uri Dan appears beside Daoud Kuttab, Daniel Pipes beside Naomi Chazan. These battlegrounds of opinions are far from the dark alleys of the Internet and insidious personal threats. Israel bears on its own skin the tragic consequences of demonization. The caricature of Yitzhak Rabin in Nazi regalia openly waved at rallies triggered the logical thread which led to his assassination. After those three fraternal bullets a shocked nation made tolerance the buzzword.
Tolerance now seems passe beyond recall.
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