Category Archives: Social Justice

O Little Town By Nicholas Blincoe

As a child, studying O’ level geography, I was given a list of every conceivable city-type: the fortress, the port, the market town and so on. I remembered the list when I first visited Bethlehem, my wife’s home town. Many … Continue reading

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THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM

Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem. “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological … Continue reading

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The Case for Boycotting Israel by Dr Virginia Tilley

It is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international boycott of Israel. Good cause for a boycott has, of course, been in place for decades, as a raft of … Continue reading

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Lobbying for Armageddon by Sarah Posner

Some influential evangelical leaders are lobbying for an attack on Iran. But it’s not about geopolitics – it’s about bringing about the End Times In a perfect world, a reporter at last week’s press conference with George Bush and Tony … Continue reading

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The Power of Evil by Professor William A Cook

Nothing so graphically illustrates the dilemma facing the United States and the United Nations as the catastrophic collapse of negotiations that failed in Italy when America found itself standing alone before the entire world, nakedly defending the defiant state of … Continue reading

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What are we doing? by Paul Heywood-Smith

Wake up Australians. What are we doing? Do we realize that we are, by our silence, by our apathy, by our support for Israel, making ourselves accomplices to war crimes. This must be the lowest point in our otherwise proud … Continue reading

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Smart Lies or Evil Lies? by Father Labib Kobti

Aren’t you exercising excessive use of force? No at all, we are responding to their violence … But they are using rocks and small weapons … They are killing us with rocks and their weapons … But there is more death … Continue reading

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The End of the Holocaust by Professor Todd May

As I write this, smoke is still rising from the smoldering rubble of the refugee center in Qana. Bodies are still trapped in the collapse of the building. The children who gathered there sought to escape Israeli violence. It found … Continue reading

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If Israel has the right to use force in self defence, so do its neighbours by Ahmad Samih Khalidi

The west appears to insist that only one side in the conflict is able to intervene militarily across borders. That will never be accepted Much has been made in recent days – at the G8 summit and elsewhere – of … Continue reading

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