Zionism: From Realism to Autism

What happened on Yom Kippur 1973, and is happening today, is not the result of a single or frequent mistake but of a process that began a long time before that day. Over the years, Israeli policy—in this term I include the political policies of the Zionist movement and the yishuv [Israel’s Jewish population]—has undergone some major changes that can be presented as a threefold metamorphosis.

The first stage of this metamorphosis, during which the foundations of Jewish soverei...