Zionism is, as I understand it, the nationalist movement of Jews to reestablish a nation in their ancestral homeland. That's it. Any further ambitions, I hear people gnash teeth over it, but no idea what they're ranting about.

As for being Pfeizer's guinea pigs, Israelis have the same problem we all have... a fight between the sheep who go along and those people that say "hell no!" One advantage Americans have is our founders were people who said "Hell no!" Israelis might be attached to: "Thanks to the efforts of our great leaders, we survived the War for Independence, the Six Day War, The Yom Kippur War, and we got to unify or we're in trouble."

That unity helped Israel to survive when under attack by the Arabs.

But in a time like this, that strength is now a weakness. They got to figure out that the people in charge are not on their side during this particular crisis.