But the news is that some major Israeli figures, even if they are from the Left, are calling for a boycott of not just the settlers in the West Bank but of Israel proper.

Why? It is because they see no force inside Israel capable of countering Zionist extremism. What these people are calling for is the political equivalent of the military challenge on the best way to take a bridge, which is to assault it from both ends at once.

This requires a river crossing under fire, with more casualties initially; but once the far side of the bridge is under attack, the near side defense most often will collapse to retreat while they still can. What these Left leaders are saying is that we are doomed to lose if we cannot get outside help.

I agree, as I have long editorialized that "we" would have to work with people inside Israel to change the worst case scenario we are in now. The Left does not have a history of being angels, as a lot of blood was shed, and many of the former early Zionists served in Left regimes there.