Price tag attack on J’lem church provokes religious condemnation.
Jewish extremists attacked and recently a Baptist church in West Jerusalem. An article by my friend the peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah.
Fundamentalism is ugly in all its forms, Christian, Muslim, or, in this case, Jewish.
As Jesus said, people will kill in God’s name and consider it absolutely justified.
Here is a quote:
A New York Times examination of public records in the United States and Israel identified at least 40 American groups that have collected more than $200 million in tax-deductible gifts for Jewish settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the last decade. The money goes mostly to schools, synagogues, recreation centers and the like – legitimate expenditures under the tax law. But it has also paid for more legally questionable commodities: housing as well as guard dogs, bulletproof vests, rifle scopes and vehicles to secure outposts deep in occupied areas. “I am not happy about it,” a senior military commander in the West Bank responded when asked about contributions to a radical religious academy whose director has urged soldiers to defy orders to evict settlers. Kimberly Troup, director of the Christian Friends of Israeli Communities’ American office, said that while her charity’s work is humanitarian, “the more that we build, the more that we support and encourage their right to live in the land, the harder it’s going to be for disengagement, for withdrawal.”
By: DanutM on 21 February 2012
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