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Did the pilot make a wrong turn?

This has been a tough week for me. For half a century I have been an admirer of the State of Israel. I saw it as a vibrant democracy with a resourceful and compassionate people who were politically engaged. I saw its leaders as practical and sensible. I was such an admirer that I made aliyah this year.

My timing wasn't the best because I arrived in time for the Duma affair: teenage Jewish boys locked in solitary confinement for a month without access to an attorney; allegations of torture that have at least been partially confirmed by one of the cabinet ministers who authorized it; a press that has not only failed to investigate and to provide the oversight of leaders necessary for any democracy but has convicted these boys without a trial, relying only on hearsay and group affiliation. And what about the leaders? They are full of bombast as they try to have us believe that teenage boys are a threat to the survival of the state.

Did the pilot make a wrong turn? Am I in Syria or Iran? What has happened to the State of Israel, the so-called only democracy in the Mideast?

I'm new here so I have mostly questions. At the moment, I don't want to stay long enough to discover the answers.

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