Cliff Cutler is a retired Episcopalian priest and a former member of C-J Allies. Domination or Liberation: Christian Zionism or the Jesus Movement? I met liberation theologian Naim Ateek at Saint George’s Cathedral in East Jerusalem in 1996. The worship was in Arabic, but he translated his homily for the several of us who were …
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) regularly publishes a series of maps detailing how things are going in the West Bank and Gaza. We have a June 2020 map of Access Restrictions showing just how little freedom of movement Palestinians have in what is supposed to be their territory. Note: There …
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UNRWA school in Gaza hit in an airstrike. Three UN schools and a UN health center were very close by. The bomb didn’t explode, but it’s difficult to believe that in the crowded Gaza strip, that this was an accident. As UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, has long been critical to Palestinians, …
The 1990s Oslo Accords are dead, Annexation raises all sorts of problems,. The only remaining solution is a single, two-nationality state. Peter Beinart and Eric Alterman are Jewish-Americans who have concluded that the Liberal Zionist project has failed. They are both in favor of a one-state solution. Beinart’s argument. Alterman’s rejection of Liberal Zionism was …
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Imagining Together a Shared,One-State Reality Featuring Peter Beinart & Yousef Munayyerin conversation with Lara Friedman Monday, July 13th11:00am – 12:30 EDT RSVP by clicking here The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) and Jewish Currents magazine invite you to join us for a conversation (via Zoom) examining the proposition that the way forward for Israel-Palestine might well be a shared, one-state …
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They’re unequivocally against it. The plan violates international law. Guterres’s call was echoed by other leaders and foreign ministers addressing the virtual meeting, warning that Israel’s unilateral action could trigger a major escalation in the region. In the first video clip, presidential spokesperson Kellyanne Conway looks back at the movement of the US Embassy to Israel …
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