MennoLetter from Jerusalem

September 2007

• Download September MennoLetter from Jerusalem [135 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files] A Middle East View by Mennonite Church Liaison, Glenn Edward Witmer

BY Glenn Edward Witmer, page 1

Apartheid by Any Other Name Smells Just as Foul

“More tightening of the noose produced even greater determination to break free!”

Gershon Baskin, The Jerusalem Post, page 2

Why I Am a Neo-Zionist!

How one can speak about territorial compromise and withdrawal while settlements are being built and expanded?

Condoleezza Rice: Israel Must End Occupation, page 3

 “Israel’s future rests in places like the Galilee and in the Negev;

 the occupation of the West Bank will have to end, and a Palestinian State will need to be established.”

BY Seán O’Neill, Christian Peacemaker Team, page 4

“Terrorism 101” at Hebrew University!

Israeli PM Pushes Plan for Two-State Solution, page 5

BY Steven Erlanger, page 5

A Segregated Road in a Land Divided

BY Wolfgang Kraus, German Mennonite Peace Committee, page 6

Palestinian Family Receives Peace Prize

This is the second last issue of MennoLetter from Jerusalem

The final issue of MennoLetter will be published next month when I reach the golden age of 65, bringing my retirement from the church agency relationship I began 18 years ago! I will continue to be based in Jerusalem, and will write about my work next time. - Glenn E. Witmer

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