By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com
The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC), seemingly having preferred not to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israel, is instead in June convening a global week-long commemoration of the 1967 war. This remembrance will mournfully lament Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, without specifically recalling that the occupation only began after Israel defeated several Arab armies poised for attack. “It’s Time for Palestine!” is the theme for the joint advocacy initiative involving church events around the world.
But from the WCC’s perspective, is it ever a Time for Israel? Apparently not, as the WCC mostly echoes Palestinian verbiage about the Jewish nation’s founding as a “catastrophe.” In a brief news release earlier this month, the WCC frowningly noted that “just as 2008 marks 60 years of aspirations dedicated to securing a homeland for Israelis, 2008 also marks 60 years of the disintegration of Palestinian society and dispersal of some 750,000 Palestinians as refugees.” In other words, not much to celebrate!
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The Observer
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