The collapse of democratic Israel and the rise of a brutal Israel arouse not only anxiety, anger and disappointment, but also a measure of unconscious gratificationThis month marks 129 years since the First Zionist Congress, where Theodor Herzl sought European patronage for the dream he had formulated. That patronage came only after the Jewish people had paid a terrible price. From the Peel Commission in 1937 to the Gaza plans of 2026, the world has tried almost every conceivable formula for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.