Subject: [Homestead] Presbyterian and Episcopal genocidal blackmail
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:37:03 -0700
Taking up where Hitler left off.
As I mentioned I read World Net Daily every day, along with dozens of
others around the world and across the political spectrum. Net World
Daily is written and patronized by a gaggle of absolutely looney
fundamentalist bible-thumpers. But as I also mentioned, an occasional
seed of rationality escapes their religious black hole about the Arab
World viciousness in their genocidal attempts on Israel and on
Christians in places like the Sudan.
The news about the Presbyterian (my earliest childhood church) is deeply
disturbing and a blatant attempt to blackmail Israel from what it HAS TO
DO TO DO TO SURVIVE the Palestinian and Arab World never-ending onslaught.
Now Episcopal Thuggees join Presbyterian Thuggees.
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Episcopal Church
next to shun Israel?
Anglican leaders following Presbyterians,
pushing for divestment from Jewish state
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Posted: September 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Leaders of the Anglican Church, which in the U.S. includes the Episcopal
Church, USA, are preparing to follow in the footsteps of the
Presbyterian Church, USA, which incurred widespread condemnation this
summer when it voted to side with the Palestinians and economically
divest from the Jewish state.
Anglican Church leaders advocating the punitive move – which amounts to
removing capital from Israel – include church officials from the United
States, Australia and New Zealand, said Nancy Dinsmore, director of
development for the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, in an Associated
Press report.
The report said the recommendation to divest, made by 29 Anglican
representatives who toured the Holy Land this week before reaching their
decision, will be delivered at a 2005 meeting of the Anglican
Consultative Council, to be held in Wales. It will include
representatives from all 38 provinces of the worldwide Anglican
Communion, which includes the Anglican Church of Canada and the Church
of England in England, as well as the Episcopal Church, USA.
The strategy of pressuring the Jewish state by divestment – a tactic
last used against South Africa to bring about an end to apartheid – is
advocated by Palestinians and Arabs worldwide, Dinsmore told the wire
service.
While touring Israel and the West Bank areas, the Anglican leaders were
exposed "to the draconian conditions of the continuing occupation under
which so many Palestinians live," according to the group's website.
Jenny Te Paa of New Zealand, who led the delegation, told AP the
Anglican Church is likely to accept the divestment proposal, since it is
becoming increasingly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
With the decision, approved in a 431-62 vote at the 216th annual general
assembly of the PCUSA, the denomination became the largest organization
or institution to join the divestment campaign against Israel. It was
the first Christian denomination to do so.
In 2001, the combined value of the Presbyterian Church, USA's foundation
and pension fund was estimated at $7 billion.
In a news release at the time, the PCUSA liaison to the Middle East,
Rev. Victor Makari, was quoted as saying: "If nothing else seems to have
changed the policy of Israel toward Palestinians, we need to send a
clear and strong message."
The church statement noted that "divestment is one of the strategies
that U.S. churches used in the 1970s and '80s in a successful campaign
to end apartheid in South Africa."
The petition says the church's resolution is "anti-Semitic because NO
OTHER nation is being singled for divestment, not even those whose
violations of human rights are truly egregious."
"Only the moral blindness of Jew-hatred could lead the church to compare
Israel’s multi-racial democracy to apartheid South Africa," the petition
says. "Only anti-Semitism could lead the church to condemn democratic
Israel, while not voting divestment from Saudi Arabia, where women have
virtually no rights and non-Muslims are not even permitted to enter the
country without special permission, from Sudan, where race-based
genocide is occurring even as we speak, from Iran, where Bahai are
murdered for their faith, or from the many other countries where human
rights are violated as a matter of routine." The petition concludes: "We
condemn the Presbyterian divestment resolution as an act of hatred
against Israel and the Jewish people and call for its immediate
revocation."
The Anglican representatives, who met this week with Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian church representatives, several Israel Arabs
and an Israeli activist – but no Israeli government officials – are
urging Israel to implement U.N. resolutions mandating Israeli withdrawal
from areas it captured when it was attacked in the 1967 Six-Day War.