Archive for August, 2009
By James M. Wall This is not the time for U.S. denominations to keep debating inadequate, diluted, compromised resolutions on “peace in the Holy Land”. It is rather, kairos time, the moment to move against Israel’s apartheid dominance over four million Palestinians by embracing the non-violent strategy of BDS, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Christian denominations […]
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By James M. Wall This blog has received more immediate reaction to Is Thomas Friedman a Positive Voice for Peace? You Decide, than any other posting I have written since Wall Writings was launched in April, 2008. One reader of the blog, unnamed here except as “Faithful Reader”, sent a copy of […]
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by James M. Wall Thomas Friedman is the Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times. So what, in the name of all that is sacred in media land, are we to make of this news item that appeared August 12 in Ha’aretz: Senior New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave a […]
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+++++++++++++++ FRIDAY UPDATE: The ceremony proceeded at the White House Wednesday without any interference. Mary Robinson was one of 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Honor. The effort to “Freeman” Robinson, failed. Read here what President Obama said about Robinson. Wednesday Update: Mary Robinson is scheduled to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor […]
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by James M. Wall Twelve years after he survived Bibi Netanhayu’s attempt to assassinate him, Khalid Mishal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, holds meetings with Jimmy Carter, and gives interviews to the Wall Street Journal. Khalid Mishal is also key to a peaceful Israeli future, if only Netanyahu would pay attention to […]
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