This presentation is based on a culturally-sensitive model for explaining and treating traumatic responses to situations of transition and crisis. According to this model such responses are mediated by people's internalized culture. Post traumatic responses are characterized by "bugged" information-processing: disregard of crucial information, allowing irrelevant information to interfere with one's decisions, a reduced ability to judge situations correctly and respond affectively and consistently, etc. The nature of such "bugs" is also affected by internalized culture. Relevant central traditional cultural Jewish values and concepts are: being a nation unlike any other nation, whose very right to exist physically and spiritually has always been denied by other nations and religions, the centrality of the Country of Israel as an eternal national homeland, and Jerusalem and The Temple Mount as the central symbols of Jewish nationhood and religion. Zionism has attempted to reverse these basic tenets, by (a) turning the Jewish people into a normal nation like any other nation, whose right to exist is protected by a strong army and accepted by the rest of the world and (b) bringing The Country of Israel, Jerusalem and Mount Zion down to earth again. Many Israelis have experienced the current wave of violence and the sharp criticism directed against the methods used by Israel to suppress it as the breakdown of these Zionist beliefs. This experience has been traumatic. Among the resulting bugged information-processing patterns are disregard for Israel's share in the responsibility for the crisis, lack of empathy to the plight of the other side, xenophobia and a sense of being persecuted by the whole world. These symptoms are manifested in the mass media, in the current political scene and in ordinary people's discourse.  The presenter will also share his introspection into his own internal responses.