We hope that the violence will soon cease, and that all of this will be behind us by the time you read this. But, nonetheless, the results of these acts of violence will remain with us, namely, the casualties, the suffering, and the elevated hatred and hopelessness on both sides.

Our tears are the salty gates for seeing a different reality;

Our tears are facing soulless nations and a parched mentality;

We need to pray not only for the cease of fire but also for advocating a new reality. We don’t want only to stop killing innocent children but we also want to raise our children with a different worldview and in a different world.

A Palestinian describes a joint prayer meeting of Messianic Jews and Arab Palestinian Evangelicals in Israel during the war with Gaza: "I was quickly able to identity myself as a sinner. This united us. We are a group of sinners in the presence of a Holy God. We can only compete in our confessions instead of claiming moral superiority".

Shadi, my student from Gaza, describes the situation in Gaza and reports that "at night people expect airstrikes and hope that it will not be their neighborhood or home. They are not able to leave Gaza."
Interestingly, Shadi is not harboring anger and revenge.

Two Arab Evangelical pastors from the West bank talk about the violent attack of settlers on them this Sunday morning. They talked to "Come and See" about
God's grace and sovereignty, Christian Zionism as well as their readiness to continue to serve the Lord in dangerous places.

המחבר -תיאולוג פלסטיני ישראלי- כותב שיוסף התווה את התכנית שבה חלומו של פרעה הפך לברכה ליותר מאומה אחת. הוא תוהה אם ניתן ללמוד לקח מכך ולצפות שמדינת ישראל תגשים את החלום שלה מבלי לשלול מהפלסטינים את זכויות האדם הבסיסיות שלהם, ולהפך?

let us celebrate the multifaceted dimensions of our identity and let us create a theological discourse that provokes the Palestinian Israeli church to serve God and its society in ways that spread justice, peace, equality, and respect for diversity

A Palestinian Theologian derives lessons from the story of the kidnapping of Joseph in the Old Testament to the current events in Israel and asks: Can the Israeli state fulfill its dream without depriving the Palestinians their basic human rights and vice versa? This might be possible if we start with forgiveness.