Last week, my son texted me a link to an article about a new Israeli Foreign Office initiative:

He asked: “Do you still feel that attachment to Israel that I’ve never really shared, even if just residual?”

I struggled to answer him. This latest was another nail to the heart, one of so many that have punctured the vision of Israel I had as little girl when I put quarters in a JNF folder every week at Hebrew school back in the late ‘60s.

I cannot for the life of me understand why the Israeli governme...