MennoLetter from Jerusalem

April 2007

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

“You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free” - CIA motto, etched in marble at their Langley, Va., headquarters

In this issue:

When Silence in Consent

- by Glenn Witmer page 1

Christian Zionists - The Sleeping Giant

"There is the suspicion that evangelicals, as their name implies, are out to convert Jews."
Jerusalem Post Editorial
- by Rabbi Dow Marmur, page 2

Bishops Equate Israel’s Actions to Holocaust

A group of German bishops tour the Palestinian Authority, say Israel is behaving like Nazis.
- Eldad Beck, page 3

Apartheid Looks like This

- by Jonathan Cook, page 3

"Occupied Gaza like Apartheid South Africa"

- Rory McCarthy, page 5

Palestine: Just Like Life under Pinochet

- Nir Hasson, Ha’aretz, page 5

Can a State be Both Jewish and Democratic?

Israeli Arabs ask: "Who are we and what do we want?”
- Rima Merriman, page 6

Canadian Government Forms Pro-Israel Lobby

page 7

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