Note: Now and then one hears it said that the UN is “anti-Semitic”. Who’s saying that? Abraham H. Foxman and who else? Please see my highlights below. Peace, Roy
The Monthly Humanitarian Monitor | June 2011
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The Rev. Roy Hayes
Priest-at-Large in Cyberspace
(Episcopal)
Mideast Peace = Peace of Jerusalem = World Peace
Peers,
My Allies on AOL and I are calling for Christians and Muslims to stand in solidarity on the Holy Land issues and call for Jews to SHARE JERUSALEM. It’s a simple matter of calling for justice. Peers, have you noticed? Every time we find the word “righteousness” in the Bible, we’re getting a reference to justice. For the word “righteousness” is a synonym for the word “justice”. Islam, the faith, insists on justice. The word “Jihad” literally means “effort”. Jihad, rightly understood, is the struggle for justice which makes peace possible. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a contemporary Christian leader, teaches: “Let us work for justice. Reconciliation and peace will follow soon enough.” Bishop T is right. Let us work together. Peers, please take another look at The Official Website of A Common Word. Study the details at that site very, very carefully. Tell your friends about it, because a great deal depends on the general public being purged of our prejudices towards Arabs. Beware The Swarm. Many Christians are Arabs. The majority of Arabs are Muslims, but regardless of the numbers, bigotry …. whether conscious or unconscious … does not facilitate the peace process. Neither does fear, whether real, imagined or exaggerated. Neither do mis-representations. If Jesus and Mohammed had been contemporaries, they would have been friends and allies. It’s their followers … ordinary folks like you and me … who sometimes foul things up. There’s a postscript. Peace, Roy+
P.S. As we Christians make our rightful claim to Jerusalem, we acknowledge that Muslims and Jews also have rightful claims to Jerusalem from their perspectives. It is useless to quarrel about sovereignty in the Holy City. Sovereignty in Jerusalem belongs to God alone, and God is ONE. Jerusalem is truly an international city and must be SHARED. Amen
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Peer, we’re invited – White House, New York, and London
Peace, Roy
White House – New York – London
Dear Friends,
We would like to invite you to join our demonstrations in front of the White House on September 10th and in front of the United Nations building in New York on September 15th. The purpose of these demonstrations is to declare opposition to US aid to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
American tax dollars go toward supporting an illegal and humiliating occupation of Palestinian land; the construction of illegal settlements; the annexation of Palestinian farmland; the purchase of weapons and arms used in night raids and military strikes. Right now your money finds its way to this part of the world where children and innocent civilians are killed, injured, and made to suffer. It also empowers the Israeli government to further ignore international law and perpetuate its intransigence.
These demonstrations in September will tell the US government to stop supporting this occupation and stand up for justice and freedom in Palestine.
The popular comittees-Palestine asks all those who support peace and justice in Palestine to organise demonstrations in September 10 outside the US embassies of their countries calling for the end of US aid to Israel. Demonstrations are already planned in front of the White House on September 10th and in front of the United Nations bu…ilding in New York on September 15th, but to be successful we need to globalise the resistance.
American tax dollars go toward supporting an illegal and humiliating occupation of Palestinian land; the construction of illegal settlements; the annexation of Palestinian farmland; the purchase of weapons and arms used in night raids and military strikes. Right now American money finds its way to this part of the world where children and innocent civilians are killed, injured, and made to suffer. It also empowers the Israeli government to further ignore international law and perpetuate its intransigence.
These demonstrations in September will tell the US government to stop supporting this occupation and stand up for justice and freedom in Palestine, lets spread them far and wide accross the planet.
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