Monday, May 1, 2006
This is almost comical. Further on Presbyterians Discover Stone Throwing Youths, the PC(USA) reports that the World Council of Churches has sent a formal letter of complaint to the Israeli Ambassador in Switzerland concerning stone throwing "settlers."
WCC protests settlers' violence against Christian volunteers in Hebron
In an April 25 letter to Israeli ambassador Aviv Shir-On, the director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, Peter Weiderud, requested action by Israeli authorities and law-enforcement agencies to stop “abusive, unlawful and violent behavior by settlers toward Palestinians and internationals.”
On April 1, Silvana Hogg, a Swiss lawyer, was stoned by a young Israeli settler in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron; he needed seven stitches for a head wound as a result. On April 20, in the same neighborhood, Karin Laier, a German social worker and Tore Ottesen, a Norwegian sociologist, were attacked by about 15 young settlers. They were bruised but weren’t seriously injured...
...Stressing that the root of the problem is “the practice of establishing, protecting and expanding settlements,” Weiderud also requested “concrete steps that lead to the complete withdrawal of all settlers from Hebron and return of settler-occupied properties to their Palestinian owners.”...
What a disgrace. No one notices dangerous stone-throwers until the victims are Westerners and the perpetrators are Jews.
Here is the text of the WCC letter.
See no evil - unless it's Jewish
When the divestment thing first came up, I thought they were just misguided liberals and reasoned arguments could set them straight.
Now, I see that noboby could be this one-sided and this persistant in bashing Israel unless they just plain didn't like Jews very much.
The WCC and "the Presbyterian leadership are infested with anti-Semites.
this is a variant on what Charles Jacobs calls "the human rights complex. if you want to know what's going to raise the indignation of the human rights community, don't look at the victim, or how badly the victim is oppressed... llook at the perp. if the perp is white -- indignation -- if "of color" -- look the other way.
that's how the media can lavish so much attention (and indignation) on israel's "oppression" of the palestinians, and ignore the terrible things happening all across africa (just to take a few examples).
Moroccan occupation of the western sahara -
to take only one example of what is ignored
The problem is not with Jews, but with Israel. Christians, Muslims and Jews must come together and to kick out those illegal gentiles..."That shitty little state called I----SRAEL !!!