--- Peter Brewer <bppeter@...> wrote:
> My Brothers
> 
> Cruelty is cruelty no matter if it is done by
> Isreali troops against Palestinian Christians or
done by Nazi SS troopers against innocent Jews.  I
> see no difference between the Isreali government's
> pogroms against the  Palestinians and Bedouins and
Hitler's "Final Solution."
> 
> When I lived in the Middle East the Palestinians
> that I knew all said the  Isrealis had learned their
lessons well from the  Nazis.
> 
> +Peter

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Dear Bishop:

Thank you for sharing your experience.  

I have known others who went to the area as strong
supporters of Israel and returned shaken by the
poverty and mis-treatment of the Palestinians.

Some problems seem insoluble.  Its easy for us to say
the choices are the righteous Reign of God or
Armegeddon, but the devil is in the details.   Since
Israel, backed by the U.S. hold the military power, it
is up to the leaders of those two nations to come up
with a political messiah of sufficient humanity and
mentality to find the way to peace. 

Obviously it is impossible for the Palestinians to
exist peacefully in a situation where unemployment
runs 70% and where they are prisoners in their own
homes.

Less repression than that caused our own founding
fathers to revolt two centuries ago. 

No amount of wall building by the Israelis will assure
their safety in such a sea of poverty.

Charles+


"If only it were all so simple!  If only there were
evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil
deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them
from the rest of us and destroy them.  But the line
dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
human being.  

And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own
heart?"

--Alexander Solzhenitsyn




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