Booing Israel at the Winter Olympics plus the bobsled burglary story shows the public mood has turned into brutal punchlines. Right, so Israel has walked into the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan and got booed, and that alone tells you the big lie of this whole event is already struggling to hold. Then, almost immediately, Israel’s bobsled team says their training place has been burgled, passports gone, kit gone, and instead of sympathy the internet does what it does when it comes to Israel these days: it turns the story into a pile of brutal punchlines about theft, land, and the kind of excuses people have heard for decades coming from Israel. And the Olympic Committee’s response is the most revealing part, because they don’t talk about principle, they talk about zones, about what counts as their problem, about where responsibility stop ...