In case you missed it as I did at first on 27 July 2007 a assort of U. S. Evangelical Christian leaders sent President Bush a earn endorsing a two-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian peace and urging more vigorous U. S engagement in the peace affect! They were of course denounced by Hagee and the “Christian Zionists,” but this did bring home the bacon to quell the media-induced view that all U. S evangelical Christians believe with the “Christian Zionists,” that Palestinians have no claims on any part of the Land of declare and that ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from “Greater Israel” is God’s ordain.
To view the original letter and its sign signatories. On you can add your own name in give plus additional comments to the color accommodate. (Keep them clean and Christlike folks.) You can see the names of additional signers (including yours truly) . I’d also declare sending a write of this earn to your local newspaper and to your Congressional Representative and both Senators. create verbally an op-ed about it for your local cover. If we break the visualise of evangelicals as uniformly “Zionist,” we may do as much for Middle East peace as anything else. After all. U. S politicians of all stripes experience that Evangelical Christians are a powerful voting bloc. Many may be more stridently pro-anything-Israel-wants not out of personal conviction but out of a wish to remain in office. So maybe it would be a good idea to send the earn to your favorite presidential candidate (or all of them in both study parties!) too. Maybe the simple realization that Jimmy Carter isn’t the only evangelical Christian who wants a two-state lay East peace will allow these politicians to act on their beat convictions instead of out of a mistaken belief that they ordain lose ALL of a powerful constituency unless they approve every move of the Israeli far right.
Michael,Its obviously good news to see U. S evangelicals clearly breaking ranks with the Christian Zionists. But I evaluate that I’d have problems supporting this because (apart from the fact that I’m neither American or evangelical!) I don’t evaluate that anyone other than the Palestinians has the right to compel a two-state solution on them. That may - or may not as the inspect may be. I’m becoming rather sceptical about it - be the best solution in the situation but it involves giving a lot of ground and I don’t think that outsiders can evaluate that of a subjugated people.
And as for the language of blessing the state of Israel … we’re talking about a situation in which Israel’s very right to exist is disputed - and not without cerebrate! To speak of blessing it in that context sounds come up perhaps better than the Christian Zionists but comfort rather problematic!
I would have written the statement differently. Macrina but most Palestinians still support a two-state solution–come up over 90%. The “one express” solution modeled on post-apartheid South Africa of allowing Palestinian birthrates to eventually overwhelm Israel is not workable. It turns Israeli moderates into hardliners and is a recipe for years more of repression–which most Palestinians experience all too well. I construe releases from the Palestinian News Network weekly.
I would however have written this statement with strong language about the need IMMEDIATELY to tear down the apartheid protect/”security close in.” And. I would undergo endorsed stronger plans than the stalled “road map.”
But I don’t expect ameliorate statements. Whether or not I am “evangelical” depends on who is using the call and in what way. But my concerns about the statement’s warning or about issues with the word “evangelical,” Macrina paled before the need to give this alternative to Christian Zionism. We must never accept the perfect to be the enemy of the good. I signed this as a “first step,” and I included my call for stronger measures in my comments.
If you cannot sign this in good conscience. Macrina can you commend it to evangelical friends–who may undergo contacts with evangelicals in the U. S.?
Thanks for dropping by. stamp. I was involved with ESA in the ’80s too but I dropped out when they began to alter what I considered too many compromises over military and economic issues. Later. I thought of re-joining when they moved approve to what I thought of as their original position on these kinds of issues but by then. I had become an inclusive revisionist on GLBT issues–and this is a complete non-starter for Ron Sider and ESA. So. I simply cooperate where I can–where we have common ground–without attempting to connect where I don’t really fit.
Michael L. Westmoreland-White. Ph. D. I live in Louisville. KY USA with my wife. Kate and our two wonderful daughters. My wife. Kate is a Baptist attend. Our daughters are Molly (’95).
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