A Lonely Mandate
These are particularly tough times for Israel (and for Jews more broadly). The situation demands steady nerves and absolute determination to pursue our course with conviction. Is is difficult, indeed, not to be deflected by rage, which enervates, or to fall into depression, the flip side of that rage. The world, which has turned upside down, is smoldering, and on the cusp of bursting into flames.
But in the face of consummate and breathtaking evil, attacking Israel occupies the attention of the western world. For we have done something that is deemed terrible: we have allocated close to 1,000 acres in the Gush Etzion area as state land available for future housing.
