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May 21, 2015
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May 13, 2015
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As a Jew, I don’t suffer the personal pain that many of my Palestinian neighbors do when they commemorate Nakba. Although I deeply empathize with their pain, my personal pain is for my Jewish brethren who have and are now systematically trying to deny another people their “right” to even express their loss -
May 07, 2015
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May 06, 2015
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April 28, 2015
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In an article in the Mennonite World Review, Tom Harder says:...visitors to the Holy Land, if they look closely enough, discover an awful irony. The oppressed have become the oppressors and the persecuted the persecutors.
The victims are the Palestinian Arabs (both Christian and Muslim) who had been living in historic Palestine long before the Jewish immigrants began arriving — displacing the Palestinians, destroying their villages and declaring an Israeli state -
April 18, 2015
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April 13, 2015
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It has been hard work to examine my own mind. Many questions that leave me wondering how could I have not thought about them. My solid identity has been shaken and then broken… I have been an eyewitness to the systematic oppression, humiliation, racism, cruelty and hatred by “my” people towards the “others” and what you see, you can no longer unsee… People ask for solutions. I don’t have one. I have a vision: A state for all its citizens with equal rights. A true democracy -
March 30, 2015
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Rev. Ajaj reflects on lessons from the Last Israeli elections and writes among other things:Much hatred was promoted during this election campaign... This shocked me as well as many people. Nevertheless, are we not asked to be the “light and salt of the earth”? How important, then, in such circumstances to promote and show love to those who have been styled as our “enemies”. -
March 28, 2015
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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy". -
March 20, 2015
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