Matthew Yglesias says that despite the headlines, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has little impact on most Israelis’ everyday lives.
The successful crushing of the Second Intifada in the early 2000s has created a dynamic in which most Israelis neither fear Palestinian violence nor witness the injustice of Israeli occupation. The economy is one of the strongest in the developed world, the cultural scene in Tel Aviv is thriving, and the tourist trade in Jerusalem is robust.
