What I'd like to know -- apart from whether any of my mealy-mouthed Twitter critics are going to retract their insults -- is what effect Hawking's decision will have on Israel's leaders. Will they hunker down behind a security wall of denial, or will someone, somewhere in Jerusalem ask why a man of Hawking's standing, who has visited Israel four times in the past and was willing to come again despite his age and ill-health, has become so alienated, so quickly, from a country he previously admired so much?
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