Category Archives: United Methodist Church

Church Leader Tells Palestinians and Israelis “eat together and listen to each other’s stories”

by James M. Wall (New Comments Posted Below) An appalling shallowness has descended over Mainline Protestantism. Episcopalians, United Methodists and Presbyterians are actually debating how they should deal with the Israeli Occupation Martin Luther King, sitting in that Birmingham city … Continue reading

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Which Matters Most, AIPAC’s Power, or Rachel Corrie’s Death?

by James M. Wall  Two events arrive next month on the American political calendar: The annual AIPAC Policy Conference, and the ninth anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death. These two events are related the way yin relates to  yang, a concept from Asian … Continue reading

Posted in Middle East Politics, Netanyahu, Obama, Presbyterian Church USA, Religion and politics, United Methodist Church | 18 Comments

Dershowitz Attacks Penn BDS Conference; Next In Line, The United Methodist Church

by James M. Wall Israeli blogger Noam Sheizal writes in the US based, Foreign Policy’s The Middle East Channel, that the majority of voters in Israel currently have no interest in ending the country’s 44 year-long military occupation of the West … Continue reading

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