From the Editor
Yachad's New Blog
Yachad, England's "pro-Israel, pro-peace" group, has launched a new blog. David Landau, former Editor in Chief of Haaretz, writes in an inaugural post:
[Israel faces] a determined downplaying of the poverty and social gaps and a blithe indifference to the ongoing occupation and to what devastation it is doing to Israel’s ethos, its morality, its society, and its name among the nations...
It is in this dangerous milieu – dangerous because the denial is so very poignantly human – that Yachad has powerfully made its mark. This young but mature movement denies denial. It denies the right of Jews, in the Diaspora as much as in Israel, to shut their eyes to the reality closing in on the Jewish state. It insists on their responsibility, their duty, to help Israel take the course that will preserve its democratic character and ultimately its sovereignty.