Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East
Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East comments on the reaction of some church leaders to the current Middle East conflict.
Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East (“Fair Witness”) is greatly disturbed by the escalating violence in Israel and Gaza and the tragic loss of innocent Palestinian and Israeli lives. As many church leaders in the U.S. demand an immediate cease fire however, we challenge them to acknowledge not only the human suffering, but the political realities in the region.
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“Maybe people don’t realize what has been going on in Israel for the past seven years,” says Rev. James Noland, Senior Pastor of Reveille United Methodist Church in Richmond, Virginia. “I was in Sderot in October 2007. Six Qassam rockets hit the town just before we arrived. We saw three blimps in the air that circulate 24 hours a day seven days a week to detect incoming rockets. When the sirens go off people have twenty seconds to get into a bomb shelter. Kids couldn’t sleep, everyone was afraid to leave their homes, people died, people had their legs blown off. It was especially disturbing to see these Qassams up close — they were built not to cause damage to structures, but to kill and maim human beings. It was terrifying. How many years are people supposed to live like that before putting a stop to it?”
Sounds like a good question to me.
The leadership of Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East includes Roman Catholics, Jews, and mainline Protestants. Most are ordained ministers.
h/t: Brutally Honest and Alice the Camel
It’s refreshing to see a note of sanity on this issue from Christian leaders.
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