Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Middle East

March 1 issue

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  ‘We don’t want your aid’

  On a Saturday morning in late January, I sat in the offices of the Near East Council of Churches in Gaza City. I was there with other Mennonite Central Committee staff, visiting partners and assessing the current situation in Gaza.

  Constantine Dabbagh, executive secretary of the Council, told us about their work in Gaza, providing job-training programs, English and computer classes and health clinics. One of the clinics was bombed by Israel during the war in 2008-09.

• Life in Jerusalem gives peace insight

  JERUSALEM — Before living and working in Jerusalem, Peter Miller, 24, thought solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict were extremely complicated.

Feb. 22 issue

• Israel’s deception

  Thanks for a hard-hitting but honest article by Kathleen Kern regarding Israel’s deceptive stance on peace while it deports peace activists and steals Palestinian homes and land.

• MCC affirms Palestinian Christians’ call

  AKRON, Pa. — Palestinian Christian theologians and church leaders have issued a plea for an end to Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories.

Feb. 8 issue

• What Israelis might not know

  To the Israeli Ministry of the Interior: things you might not know about internationals working in Palestine.

Jan. 11 issue

• Nothing like apartheid

  I only got 10 minutes of church in this morning.
  I was late because soldiers told me and a bewildered German girl, who was visiting Bethlehem from a kibbutz near Eilat,
  that people like us could no longer ride with Palestinians on Bus 21.
  We had to go to another checkpoint, but he could not tell us how to get there.

Dec. 21, 2009 issue

• Palestinian suffering

  Thank you for telling about some of the suffering of Palestinians under Israel’s occupation. There are many hundreds of tragic stories. To learn more, read about Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Rabbis for Human Rights, Gush Shalom and B’Tselem, all Israeli organizations. Their information is eye-opening. Or read the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, whose correspondent Gideon Levy recently wrote of Israel, “We don’t want peace.”

Dec. 7, 2009 issue

• CPTers beaten, robbed in West Bank

  SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, West Bank — Two Christian Peacemaker Teams members were beaten and robbed by five Israeli settlers Nov. 17 while accompanying a Palestinian family.

Nov. 30, 2009 issue

• House demolitions create fear for Palestinian family

  ANATA, East Jerusalem — A Palestinian family clings to the hope their newly rebuilt home won’t be demolished as it was 10 years ago.

Oct. 26, 2009 issue

• Toward peace in Afghanistan

  The debate is on. The public, the media and politicians are expressing their opinions on what must be done to bring peace and security in Afghanistan.

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