Detangling the Holocaust from Israeli-Palestinian politics by Moriel Rothman. When the first thought that came to mind on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was how the Holocaust is discussed in relation to Israeli-Palestinian politics, Jerusalem-based writer Moriel Rothman set out to find a different way of thinking. (Source: Common Ground News Service, 14 February 2012). Click here for the article
Read more »The life of a heart: Muslims and Jews saving lives together by Mehnaz M. Afridi. Headlines tell us that Muslims and Jews have little in common, but Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College, counters them with stories of individuals working together across faith lines – even in divided Jerusalem. (Source: Common…
Read more »Palestinian Christians ask: Why do church leaders forsake us? An article by Bernard Kilroy in Palestine News, Winter 2012: click here
Read more »Read Deuteronomy 10:18-19 and 24:17-22 about what is required of God’s people. Then read the following 2 articles: Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Settlers, Destroys the Hut of their Widow Neighbor. YOU Can Do Something about it, Assaf Oron Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the…
Read more »See below for 2 articles about the Citizenship Law that has recently been confimed in the Knessett. Israel ‘denied residency to thousands of Palestinians’ BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli policies have arbitrarily denied thousands of Palestinians the right to live in or travel to and from the West Bank and Gaza, an international rights group said Sunday. “Israel’s control over…
Read more »God rules all in 2012 Israel, even the state. “Israel: Not what you thought, not what the world thought, not what Israelis imagine themselves to think. Israeli society isn’t secular, it isn’t liberal and it isn’t enlightened”. To see the article by Gideon Levy for Haaretz.com click here
Read more »The Arab Re-Awakening and the Hopes for a Palestinian State: Hind Khoury Ambassador Hind Khoury was the delegate general of Palestine in France (2006-10) and a former Palestinian minister of state for Jerusalem affairs. She is Deputy Chair of the Board of Sabeel Jerusalem. Click here for her article in the Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol 18, No 1, 2012
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