Recommended Reading
You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garmend in pledge...(Deuteronomy 24:17-22)
Speaking to record numbers attending the October 27th Conference of Friends of Sabeel in Boston, Archbishop Desmond Tutu makes impassioned plea for an end to apartheid in the Holy Land and finds inspiration in Hebrew scripture for compassion and justice.
Tightening and travel restrictions make life increasingly difficult in the West Bank
"Identity and Movement Control in the OPT", by Jennifer Loewenstein, visiting research fellow at the Oxford University Refugee Studies Center (09.07.06)Living with the Holocaust: the journey of a child of Holocaust survivors
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Sara Roy grew up with painful memories, and the Holocaust has been a defining influence in her life. As she traces the development of her own beliefs and core values, she questions what it is to be Jewish and explores what this means in the moral and ethical context of the State of Israel.
Sara Roy is the senior research scholar at Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
For a summary of recent study of how the US relationship with Israel has shaped our own Middle Eastern policy, read "The Israel Lobby," by John Mearsheimer (Professor of Political Science at Chicago ) and Stephen Walt (Professor of International Affairs at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard).
Shortened version available on-line from London Review of Books (March 23, 2006)
"How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend," by Timothy P. Weber.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/8tb/8tb038.html
Dr. Weber examines the connections and political implications of evangelical Christians and the State of Israel. Dr. Weber is president of Memphis Theological Seminary.
The wall between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
