When I first read Gideon Levy’s article I formed a profound dislike of its tone.

Your final paragraph put it in perspective for me:

“There are more worrying forms of dependency than those of recent Israeli governments on the administrations of George W. Bush. These include the anti-political yearnings of the well-intentioned and comfortable who hope that supposedly omnipotent outsiders will save them from what they see - sometimes correctly - as the political obtuseness of their fellow citizens.”

Yes, it’s tone was decidedly a yearning for non-political resolution to the difficulties Israel faces right now, both internal and external.

These sentiments are enfeebling.