Thank you for giving us a way through succumbing to either/or thinking or having to choose sides. The witness and experience of your four visits testifies to the path forward.
This is the best analysis I have seen of the disaster happening in Palestine. I join this hope that we will have the courage to face the horror and rekindle our humaneness.
Thank you. Thank you. May those of us standing in this human place in the midst of chaos keep asking questions and keep speaking. Hopefully it is a rising chorus that may be heard.
You remind me of the diaconal call to enter the pain and suffering of our world in all its corners and then to share the pain and agony with all. Yes, it's one thing to see and experience the horror, but quite another to respond with love and grace. Thank you for the challenge (and gift) of lament and opening the path to love and peace, even if it's still a dark path. That's all I can do right now........selah
Not choosing sides......On the other hand, Bishop Desmond Tutu wisely stated: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Israel has been declared an Apartheid State by Amnesty and Human Rights Watch and is now carrying out a genocide according to the majority of judges on the International Court of Justice. You mention the massacre at the music fest without mentioning genocide?? Tutu did not mince words. He was strongly opposed to the Apartheid state of Israel and totally for the liberation of Palestinians who have been enduring a brutal occupation since 1948.
Thank you for giving us a way through succumbing to either/or thinking or having to choose sides. The witness and experience of your four visits testifies to the path forward.
You have articulated something that has been rumbling in my soul this week, but could not articulate. Thank you!
This is the best analysis I have seen of the disaster happening in Palestine. I join this hope that we will have the courage to face the horror and rekindle our humaneness.
Thank you. Thank you. May those of us standing in this human place in the midst of chaos keep asking questions and keep speaking. Hopefully it is a rising chorus that may be heard.
Allen, Thank you for these kind words as well as your support of Notebooks
Thank you for reading and for doing the work you do. Jim
Thank you for these thoughts. We are all struggling to put into words what's "rumbling" inside, a phrase of your I really like. Jim
You remind me of the diaconal call to enter the pain and suffering of our world in all its corners and then to share the pain and agony with all. Yes, it's one thing to see and experience the horror, but quite another to respond with love and grace. Thank you for the challenge (and gift) of lament and opening the path to love and peace, even if it's still a dark path. That's all I can do right now........selah
Not choosing sides......On the other hand, Bishop Desmond Tutu wisely stated: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Israel has been declared an Apartheid State by Amnesty and Human Rights Watch and is now carrying out a genocide according to the majority of judges on the International Court of Justice. You mention the massacre at the music fest without mentioning genocide?? Tutu did not mince words. He was strongly opposed to the Apartheid state of Israel and totally for the liberation of Palestinians who have been enduring a brutal occupation since 1948.