MennoLetter from Jerusalem

February 2007

• Download February MennoLetter from Jerusalem [136 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files] A Middle East View by Mennonite Church Liaison, Glenn Edward Witmer

"“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this issue:

Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us.

- by Glenn Witmer page 1

Bad News. Start Worrying. Letter Follows.

“In the same way as Nazism undoubtedly has its roots in Christianity, it would be wrong to say that Nazism is Christian. The same may be true of radical Islam; it has roots in Islam but it’s not really Islam.”
- by Rabbi Dow Marmur, page 2

Disgraceful, But Nothing New

"The guests from Canada were shocked…anyone daring to make such a remark in Canada would be immediately thrown into prison."
- Danny Rubinstein, page 3

Stop the Jewish Barbarians in Hebron

"I reacted with silence to this when I was justice minister too."
- by Tommy Lapid, page 4

Loving Us to Death

“Like it or not, the future of the relationship between Israel and the US might very well hinge far less on America’s Jews than on its Christians.”
- Ellen W. Horowitz, page 5

A Green Line in the Sand

“The Green Line’s removal from maps was meant to signify that it existed no longer…”
- David Newman, page 6

Clowns and Soldiers

“What can one do, even if armed with an M-16, when no one will comply with one’s orders and one is being filmed?”
- Art Gish, CPT, page 7

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• The 2007 Middle-East Study Tour for Pastors and Teachers

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