This phrase has been used to describe Israel’s policies in regards to the occupied territories ever since they were taken during the 1967 Six Day War. At the end of the war, Israel realized that at some point they might have to give back the occupied territories. After all, it is illegal according to international [...]
I added a new section to Damascus Gate, it’s called the “Gaza Press Corps“. Gaza Press Corps is an aggregated blog from bloggers inside Gaza. With the lack of press freedom there, this is one way that the story of what is happening there can be told. Of course, Gazans are already blogging about what [...]
I honestly think that Fox News should change their little slogan from “We report, you decide” to something more fitting like “Here is what you should think” or “This is what we believe, you should too”. I have rarely seen this so obviously demonstrated then when Fox News aired the Blagojevich press conference on January [...]
This quote goes along with what I said about the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem and their policy of agreeing not to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Israeli Jews:
“The term Zionism refers to a political Jewish movement for the establishment of a national homeland in Palestine for the Jews that have been dispersed. On [...]
As far as Christian responses to the modern state of Israel, I know that the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem is far from correct. I visited the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem and got a presentation from one of their volunteers. What he told us astonished me. For one thing, the Christian Embassy is [...]
I’m starting a new series of posts here regarding how we as Christians need to respond to the actions of the state of Israel. Many American Christians use the worn out phrase “we need to support Israel” without offering much in the way of what supporting Israel actually means or why we need to [...]
I had the honor of meeting some of the women of Zeitouna of Ann Arbor Michigan. This is a group of Jewish and Palestinian who’s motto is “Refusing to be Enemies”. This model of creating mutual understanding is crutial and I commend these ladies for the groundbreading work that they are doing. They recently put [...]
In relation to this conflict, the occupied territories are the lands that Israel is currently occupying. They consist of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. Israel took these territories during the 1967 six day war and is now holding them illegally. Worse, they are settling their own people in these territories [...]
You’re probably heard people debate whether they think that a one-state solution or a two-state solution is a better way to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. In a one-state solution, all the land of Israel proper plus the occupied territories of Gaza, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights would come under a [...]
It’s sort of ironic that after the failure of the 2000 Camp David Accords, the prevailing opinion in the western media was that Yasir Arafat missed his last chance for obtaining a Palestinian state. Under the direction of Bill Cliinton, Ehud Barak supposedly offered Arafat a deal that nobody in their right mind should have [...]