The fact that this movement is taking place in Israel demonstrates that there IS a post war failure within Israeli society. The reason is because it just plays into this "normalcy" thing that is plaguing so many in your society. Tel Aviv isn't Miami, Toronto, or Sidney Australia . Its citizens can't afford the mentality of "normalcy" you find in those cities (perhaps not even the citizens of those cities can even afford such a mentality). It is not that in and of itself hugs are bad. They aren't. But for everything there is a season. And it is simply not the season for this. Not under the current situation Israel finds itself in. Israel simply can't afford to think itself as being just like other Western Nations. Perhaps the other Westen nations can't afford to keep on behaving the ways in which we are behaving as well, but for Israel the costs will be much more immediate and devastating. One of the reasons Israel thrived in the past is because Israelis embraced the fact that they were abnormal. For if the people who emigrated to Israel wanted "normalcy" they would have stayed in whatever Western country they came from. You can't afford to be like us. Perhaps we can't either but we aren't surrounded at every side by people so focused on our extinction like you are.