Month: February 2012

• February 21, 2012

  Price tag attack on J’lem church provokes religious condemnation

   

   

   

  Price tag attack on J’lem church provokes religious condemnation.

   

  
  Here is in excerpt from my latest article co-authored with Aziz Abu Sarah.

  …So now we have Christian funds from the United States that have effectively supported the misguided second and third generation settler youth who are actively attacking churches and referring to Jesus as a son of a whore. If this is what Pastor John Hagee and other radical Christians intended, then it suggests a rather bizarre theology of interfaith love and care. It seems in reality that these funds are intended to foment conflict, to promote a confrontational, apocalyptic and messianic end to the State of Israel….

  
  

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• February 14, 2012

  Dont trust the world

   

  Dont trust the world – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews.

  What will you do if we assume risks and sacrifice victims and put our trust in you – and then something goes wrong?

  “What if the other side does not act as it is expected to, and instead hurls at us fire and plagues and poisons and possibly even nuclear weapons?

  “What will you do then? Will you ask for forgiveness? Will you say ‘we were wrong’? Will you send us bandages? Will you open orphanages for the children who survived? Will you pray for our souls?”

  Powerful persuasive words from Israel’s most recent rising politician. Imagine a family in Gaza who lost their children and entire neighborhood in 2008 giving the exact same speech, using exactly these words. Why should they not use these words?

  Ok, now what? After all the emotions, if you want something more in life …

• February 12, 2012

  With Tyrants On All Sides

  Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

  A senior Iraqi intelligence official says al-Qaida-linked fighters already are flowing from Iraq to Syria.

  Human rights, human decency of the Syrian people, assaulted from all sides. But perhaps this has always been the challenge of constructing the good society, and we cannot shrink back from the challenge. It is the same now with the outrageous support of terrorists against Iran, for example, and Iranian regime’s active support for the killing machine in Syria. How to push back all tyrants who unleash forces that always destroy civilians first and last, and let the Syrian people, indeed all peoples of the region, build their own countries together.…