Religion Dispatches
When I was a graduate student, a professor once told me “there are no coincidences.” Last week I believed him. In the wake of the Gaza Flotilla disaster (it was a disaster any way you look at it, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine), Israel was engaged in a fight it has not known for some time:…
Read MoreAlso links “anti-Israel” Obama administration to biblical prophecies of future harm to Gulf Coast.
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A scholar of nonviolence shares his struggle with Jewish identity during a time of escalating conflict and violence in Israel.
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Christians should neither excoriate Israel nor remain silent in the face of horrendous attacks in Gaza and elsewhere. Rather, according to Rev. Laarman, American Christians must heed King and make the issue about US policy and the kind of nation we aspire to be.
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There is a method to the madness indicated by the incoming Obama Administration but what kind of solution would it be?
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Israel is still using a strategy of domination in its struggle with Hamas, trying to use force to gain security. But this is a recipe for endless war.
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Rolling with the atheists in the UK; rich men, camels, and needle’s eyes; Jews, Christians, and Gaza; the Obamas on Sunday mornings…all this and more on the religion writer’s beat as the year begins.
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In an excerpt from a new book Dan Fleshler, an American Jewish activist from “the pro-Israel left,” explains the reluctance of Jewish liberals to criticize Israel on the human rights front, even when they share the rest of the world’s objections to Israeli behavior.
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Seven Jewish Children, which tells the story of the recent Israeli war in Gaza, stirs up discomfort among some Jews, and support from others.
Read MoreAn Israeli reporter documents the ways in which Israel’s military intelligence has spread disinformation going back to the failure of Camp David and the beginning of the second intifada in 2000.
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