Dragons and dragon-slayers in Israel and America Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not

(JNS) — The elections that have just taken place in Israel and the United States each boiled down to a contest between dragons and dragon-slayers.

The difference is this: Israeli Jews mostly recognize who are the dragons and who are their slayers. American Jews mostly can’t work out which is which.

In Israel, the dragons are the Palestinians, who want to kill Israeli Jews and steal their land, as well as the Islamic revolutionary leaders of Iran, who want to kill Israeli Jews and destroy their land.

In last week’s election, the Israeli public rejected the left-wing bloc because it saw them as...