To uplift your spirit read Richard Cohen's, Israel's Day of Light. The money quote is:

"The Israeli Supreme Court did something similar, although with more explicit language."There is no security without law," it wrote.

Bear this decision in mind, please, when next someone refers to the Israelis as"Nazis" or otherwise talks about the nation as if it were a thuggish dictatorship. Israel, in fact, is a complex and conflicted place, searching always for the correct balance between what is right and what is safe, sometimes -- maybe even often -- losing its way. But at its heart it still has a heart.