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December 17, 2004
Israel Divestment watch
Remember the Presbyterian and Episcopalian divestment movements? More Episcopalians are dissenting from their leaders' decisions, and the chorus is growing to reverse the Presbyterian position.Remember the stealth Somerville, MA, divestment initiative? Thanks to a lot of publicity and rapid mobilization, it was defeated. (Notice the Orwellian language.)
Oh great, we start to turn the tide on church and municipal divestment, and now the academic divestment assholes start up again. Is this ever going to end?
UPDATE: A Somerville resident expresses his gratitude to the democratic process. (via Meryl)
UPDATE: While engaging in bookmark cleansing, I found this intriguing background on the whole church divestment program.
Together with Christian lobbyists, pro-Palestinian activists recently convinced Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican and chairman of the House International Relations Committee, to send Secretary of State Colin Powell a letter complaining about the impact of Israel's West Bank security fence on Christian worshipers, clergy and institutions. Similar letters were sent to President Bush by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Holy Land Christian Society.[Emphasis mine - JSW]. . . The letters from Hyde, who chaired the impeachment hearings against President Clinton, and from the Conference of Catholic Bishops, are just one part of what some observers see as a coordinated Palestinian effort to deepen the rift between the heavily pro-Israel camp of Evangelical Christians and the rest of the American Christian community. In addition, Palestinian activists are hoping that concern for co-religionists in the West Bank and Gaza might even lead some evangelicals to criticize certain Israeli policies, pro-Palestinian sources in Washington and Jerusalem said.
Judith | 12/17/04 at 03:43 PM | Categories: - Divestment watch
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Perhaps it would be wise if Jews would more openly talk about divestment/ investment and especially results, and compare money to Israel against money to Palestine.
It seems to me that most money "invested" in Palestine has gone through corruption, etc., into support for non-democratic terrorism. In Israel, there seems to be a thriving democratic, mostly capitalistic/ market oriented economy using the investment to generate positive returns.
I've my own ideas about Bush hate, Success hate, Jew hate on my own blog. http://tomgrey.motime.com/1069182789#173964
I wish Sharon, and the Israeli PR group, would focus on the lack of a free press in Palestine, NOT caused by Israel.
Don't know how else Israel can help the Pales decide on a more peaceful democracy -- maybe continue killing Hamas murderers? Finish the Wall? It was a stupid PR disaster to take MORE land, instead of LESS. I think. But not certain -- maybe it created more Pali fear that ever-losing will be ever increasingly costly. Yet for this step, a better Wall route would have allowed Israel some scopt to play the victim.
Tom Grey | December 20, 2004 09:23 AM
"It was a stupid PR disaster to take MORE land, instead of LESS. I think. But not certain -- maybe it created more Pali fear that ever-losing will be ever increasingly costly."
No matter where Israel put the fence, someone would complain. I think it was proper to base the fenceline on Israel's security needs (re: resolution 242), not the Green Line, an arbitrary armistice line which has assumed "legal" overtones just because the "international community" keeps saying so.
In Jewish terms, the Green Line is minhag, Res. 242 is halacha. Sometimes minhag becomes halacha, but this minhag is created by our enemies, not us, and should be resisted.
Judith | December 20, 2004 01:58 PM
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