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Israel letter
Monday 1st March 2010 @ 12:00 am

 This letter appears in the recent Methodist Newsletter - on the first day of release I received 3 calls/messages about it ... so thought I would put it up here as well ... just saying what I saw!

 

Dear Editor,

 

I have read with interest the recent correspondence concerning Palestine & Christian Zionism.

 

I had the pleasure of, along with John Alderdice & Gail Mercer, leading a group of students to the Occupied Palestinian Territories & Israel last August. I do think I am being overly dramatic when I say that the experience of witnessing the lives of Palestinian Christians and Muslims left us highly challenged and changed.

 

I have lived in Northern Ireland almost all my life, the first twenty two years of my life were lived during the Troubles. I have travelled to South Africa on three occasions and I visited Rwanda on the tenth anniversary of the genocide. I am accustomed (sadly) to violence. But I have never witnessed the oppression and violence I was faced with in Palestine. The Israeli government is systematically destroying a people, while the international community, under international law, condemns Israel but does not nothing to stop them.

 

We have many evils in the world, and many regions are often quoted as being the most dangerous to a peaceful world. Depending on where you stand often dictates whom you see as dangerous. After standing against the wall in Palestine I have no doubt that Christian Zionism is one of the most distorted and hazardous doctrines of our time, and Israel one of the most dangerous threats to peace in our world.

Perhaps some of your readers would like to use the prayer (attached) that I wrote, used in Christmas celebrations this year around the DCM circuit and Trinity college.

 

Yours very sincerely.

 

Julian Hamilton

 

... the prayer was put on the blog in December ...


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