irsthand, but others EFTA00630433 learned to accept the official narratives justifying what they were made to do. Last year, a poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute found that fifty-one per cent of Israelis believed that people "should be prohibited from harshly criticizing the State of Israel in public." Netan

eagan criticized and many Israelis opposed). Netanyahu has watched the polls move steadily against him for the past year. One of them, conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute in EFTA00711874 August, showed just 27 percent of Israelis support a unilateral strike--that is, an attack on Iran without a green light from the