I'm well aware. In the 1990s, during the Oslo Peace accords, most Israelis bought into the premise of a new world order that accepted them irreversibly as part and parcel of the west. 
When the media campaign of lies began in Oct. 2000, the Israelis were so caught off guard at both the severity and malice and they just weren't prepared to respond to that kind of slander and choreographed propaganda. They wanted to be like Canada and the USA who apologize constantly to Natives and Blacks etc and everything will be OK and they just didn't have a good narrative prepared for themselves; they didn't expect to need it!
Hopefully they will have reckoned with the facts and moved past shallow western constructs into something more genuine.
The lefty agenda bears much of the blame.