I had/have this friend in Tel Aviv who's a right winger. Not a Ben Gvir fascist, but a Liberman type. We've been friends since we were 17, went to university together in Jerusalem. Never really talked politics until the Second Intifada, when she veered to the right. 1/ I tried to put up a Chinese wall, keep the conversation on our usual topics -- books, partners, careers, clothes, movies, etc. But she started to attack me for my politics and refused my pleas that we just not talk about "the situation." 2/