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- I don't think Israel should treat Mordechai Vanunu like an animal... no matter what someone has done, the basic citizen rights are intact... plus the information he leaked is no longer secret according to Amnesty...
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- God has warned Israel as far back as Ezekiel- help warn Israel that it must repent!
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- Thanks Bob! (Simon) Now do an expose' on the amount of US taxpayer dollars that go to Israel to fund their agenda. Also mention the influence and ownership of the major media institutions in the USA and how there's never any mention of this. You could also mention the propaganda that "Israel is a stabilizing force in the middle east" and of "religious ties between Christians and Jews". (In case you've forgotten, the Jews had Jesus killed, and I haven't heard a formal apology yet). Thanks again.
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- Israel has become the home, the epicenter, of False. The State has the main task of creating lies on a massive scale and distributing them throughout the world. "False" is the most universal "Product of Israel."
It is so thick and it spreads to the US with ease. The ingenuity, rather the "disingenuity," of US groups like AMCHA and Stand With US is breathtaking in this regard. That's why we need and value Bob Simon ...for his vigilance and defiance. - Reply to this comment
- I disagree with Mr. Michael Oren's comments that Muslims are the main reason why Christians there have a decreased population. There is never any mention of Christian/Muslim conflict there, just Muslim/Jewish conflict. What the Christians there and throughout the world will have to accept like we Muslims already do is that Jews always feel themselves to be superior and exclusive to all other religions and will do whatever they feel is necessary to keep that attitude in the forefront at any time as far is Israel is concerned and anywhere else in the world. Christians in America don't seem to think that way, but they should. They have to realize who is making it possible for Israel to receive so much aid from America and not be a second class or newly developing country.
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- THANK YOU 60 MINUTES! Don't be terrorized by the enemies of freedom and human rights, keep up the good work!
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- I am an American Jew, respected in the highest regard amongst Muslim and Christian Palestinians in the Palestinian territories.
It's true that Christian and Muslim Palestinians live together in Ramallah. They work and support each other respectfully-- all trying to survive the brutal Israeli occupation.
My experience of the occupation and knowing Palestinians, I am a former student of the Birzeit University (BZU) located in Bizet near Ramallah in the Palestinian territories. The BZU students' majority is Christian and Muslim Palestinians who attend classes together daily. As well, there are several international students that attend the BZU. Like me, most internationals are there for summer programs and reside in the surrounding Christian/Muslim towns of Ramallah, Kober and Birzeit.
I lived in Ramallah, renting an apartment by a Muslim Palestinian, along with Christians and Muslims renting in the same complex. My favorite hangout spot was Stars and Bucks (The Palestinian version of Starbucks) in the town center. Where customers are Christian, Muslim and even Jewish.
The BZU faculty has several Muslim and Christian Palestinians working together reverentially on campus. The BZU survival is funded solely by means of international support.
Readers please take a moment to check out the BZU photo gallery and you will see Muslims and Christians studying and socializing together on campus: http://www.birzeit.edu/gallery/
To dispute Oren's nonsense, I am a witness that Christians are not leaving because of the Muslims or Islam. It's because of the violent tactics by the IDF and oppression as a result by the Israeli occupation (which I feel sixty minutes lacked in exposing).
The Palestinians are non violent, honorable, and resilient people, whom I've come to know personally. Many which are now friends. I sooo admire the hospitality they have given to me and to each other in the Palestinian communities, even in the midst of adversity.
What Michael Oren spews in the segment is typical disinformation rhetoric on Israel's behalf. Glad he hung himself in the lies questioned by Bob Simon.
It's discreditable to read all the Palestinian smears on the Sixty Minutes message boards. The anti-Palestinian posters I'm sure are paid to plant disinformation here. To educate, I hope this segment will encourage the public to seek out the truth. To learn more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict go to the web site Jewish Voices for Peace at http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/. - Reply to this comment
- I noticed my comment was deleted. So here it is again. I am very pleased with Mr. Robert Simon reporting this story. I understand Mr. Simon is Jewish, and perhaps finally North American Jewry will start confronting Zionism. Maybe we are turning a corner!
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- By milantwentyseven
This past week as one by one my comments were deleted I was somewhat disturbed....this is America and all that...no place for censorship etc. However given the tone and content of some of the messages lately ("Hamas will fight them with love"????) perhaps it's for the best.
See Ya !
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- Israelis appeal to Methodist Church @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pv-I7-VPUhs
ENDORSEMENT STATEMENTS FOR THE UMKR RESOLUTION
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu endorses divestment resolution.
26 April 2012
Dear Friends of the United Methodist Church
The situation in Israel and Palestine pains me greatly since it is the place where God formed a very particular relationship with a particular group of people; Hebrews who were oppressed as slaves in another land. As time moved on, this people disobeyed God and time and time again the prophets had to call them back to their deepest values.
The Jewish Holocaust, engineered and implemented primarily by Europeans, gave some ideologues within the Jewish and Christian community an excuse to implement plans that were in the making for at least 50 years, under the rubric of exceptional Jewish security. In this way began the immense oppression of the Palestinian people, who were not at all involved in the Holocaust. Not only is this group of people being oppressed more than the apartheid ideologues could ever dream about in South Africa, their very identity and history are being denied and obfuscated. What is worse, is that Europe and the USA are refusing to take responsibility for their actions with regard to both the Holocaust and the over-empowering of the Israelis, their disregard for the international conventions and regulatory framework of the nuclear industry and their continued oppression of the Palestinian people.
But God, who is the same yesterday, today and forever, neither slumbers nor sleeps. Prophetic voices have been calling this empowered people who were once oppressed and killed, to their deepest values of justice and compassion, but they have refused to listen even to the most reasonable voices. The human community cannot be silent in the face of the gross injustice being meted out to the people of Palestine. If international courts and governments refuse to deal with this matter, we in the churches and in the rest of civil society really have no choice but to act in small ways and big ways.
God is busy doing a new thing. And God is using all of us to be partners with him. Both the Israelis and the Palestinians have to be liberated, but at this stage the greater onus is on the Israelis since they are the ones who are in power, economically, politically and militarily. We have to think about ways that will allow them to reflect deeply on what it is that they are doing and bring them back from the brink, not out of spite or revenge, but because we love them deeply.
I therefore wholeheartedly support your action to disinvest from companies who benefit from the Occupation of Palestine. This is a moral position that I have no choice but to support, especially since I know of the effect that Boycotts, Disinvestment and Sanctions had on the apartheid regime in South Africa.
May God bless your conference as you deliberate on this matter, and I pray that your decision will reflect the best values of the human family as we stand in solidarity with the oppressed.
God bless you.
Archbishop-Emeritus Desmond Tutu
Cape Town, South Africa.
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