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Gaza Reading [UPDATED]

…an Israeli strike in Gaza. Michal Vasser writes in “A Message to Israeli Leaders: Don’t Defend Me — Not Like This,” via Haaretz: “If you are interested in stopping the hostile actions from the other side – open your ears and start listening. If we are important to you – please stop defending us by means of missiles, ‘pinpoints’ and ‘aeronautical components.’ Instead of Operation Pillar of Defense embark on Operation Hope for the Future. This is m…

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Beck Visits Israel, Promotes Self as Watchdog of Anti-Semitism

…g. His rally, his recent visit to Auschwitz, and a special to be broadcast about the town outside the camp, smacks of a new sideshow Beck is creating that may rival his Fox News stint. Stay tuned. Beck may not have the Fox platform anymore, but he still has a loyal following, and now perhaps even part of an Israeli political party in his back pocket….

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RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

…or Separation of Church and State is doing, you’ll see that “the nation’s leading Religious Right organizations took in more than half a billion dollars over a recent 12-month period.” In the October issue of Americans United’s Church & State magazine, Rob Boston reported that: “several of the organizations showed dramatic increases in their budgets; only a few showed a drop.” Boston’s piece, titled “The Religious Right Top Ten: Right-Wing Religio…

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The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

…hives of the Vatican Library, there are two display cases adjacent to the reading rooms, dedicated to new publications—books mostly, along with a handful of journal articles. It is always worth taking some time to consult these cases, both to learn what is happening in this corner of the scholarly world, but also to see what the Vatican presses themselves have published recently. An important new four-volume work caught my eye this week. Edited by…

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Republicans Would Obstruct Peace for Theo-Political Gain

…onfused or surprised about this probably goes to the success that Israeli leaders have had over the years in obscuring it, and the indulgence that American leaders have often shown toward those efforts. Mike Huckabee says Obama “betrayed” Israel, and took the opportunity to chide him for not “secur[ing]” U.S. borders. Mitt Romney says he “threw Israel under the bus.” Michele Bachmann claimed Obama’s speech “will cause chaos, division & more aggres…

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Christian Zionists, Bibi, Obama, and Armageddon

…ld “bless” those who “bless” Israel and “curse” those who “curse” it. The peace process, a two-state solution, ending aid to Israel — watch out, America, God’s wrath will come raining down. It’s not just the blessings and curses drawn from Genesis 12:3 that motivate Christian Zionists, however, although it’s a powerful bludgeon. Many — polls show a clear majority — of American evangelicals believe the state of Israel is the fulfillment of God’s pl…

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Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

…means of destroying them and silencing any potential sympathizers.” Also read David Remnick on the state of democracy (or not) in Israel. Wildman and I discussed these matters the last time we met on Bloggingheads, and in particular the chasm between the reality on the ground there and what Wildman has called a “mythical” vision of Israel as the land of milk and honey. Remnick: Although Israel as imagined by Theodor Herzl and built by the generat…

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American Jewish Leaders Get Gaza Wrong

…ggled in the past with Gaza, dividing over whether to back Operation Cast Lead in 2008. Reservations about Israel’s use of force in Gaza have continued.  In 2009, Yoffie called American Jewish critics of Cast Lead “morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naïve.” Yoffie’s words supporting what the Israeli military has named Operation Pillar of Cloud horrify me. The current president of the URJ, Rabbi Ri…

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The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

…riptions, the regular injustices of the occupation rarely make mainstream headlines. Although what happened to Tariq is far from an aberration, few other Palestinian children who land, battered, in Israeli military prisons prompt calls for an investigation by the U.S. State Department and headlines in the likes of TIME Magazine, New York Times the Daily News, ABC, and many more. Jeffrey Goldberg, who can hardly be accused of being anti-Israel, cal…

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LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

…of the Spirit that flows upon us from Jesus. And yet bizarrely, Christian leaders of all denominations are joining together with leaders of other religious organisations, ones that not only do not know of the Holy Spirit, but are in some cases adamantly opposed to the existence and enlivening effect of any such thing. Such leaders would rather fence themselves round with all the trappings of “religion” than spread the Good News of the One who has…

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