Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- The Land of Israel/Palestine
- Jerusalem
- The Ownership of Land
- The Theology of the Land
- Generations of God Gifting the Land
- Conquering in the Name of God
- One God: Three Faiths
- The Word of God
- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian Perspective
- Scripture from a Muslim Perspective
- Scripture from a Jewish Perspective
- A Timeline from 1840–1967
- The Land and Population in Modern Day Israel/Palestine
- Settlers and Settlements
- Zionism: Secular and Religious
- Politics, Wars and New Beginnings
- Peacemakers: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
- The Wall, the Fence, the Barrier
- The Law Ancient, the Reality Today
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
Peacemakers: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
from Part 1 - THE LAND AS PLACE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- The Land of Israel/Palestine
- Jerusalem
- The Ownership of Land
- The Theology of the Land
- Generations of God Gifting the Land
- Conquering in the Name of God
- One God: Three Faiths
- The Word of God
- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian Perspective
- Scripture from a Muslim Perspective
- Scripture from a Jewish Perspective
- A Timeline from 1840–1967
- The Land and Population in Modern Day Israel/Palestine
- Settlers and Settlements
- Zionism: Secular and Religious
- Politics, Wars and New Beginnings
- Peacemakers: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
- The Wall, the Fence, the Barrier
- The Law Ancient, the Reality Today
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
Summary
This modern history is one full of hope and despair. The promise of the 1993 ‘Handshake’ between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Prime Minister and Chairman Yasser Arafat was followed by the assassination of Rabin and the election of a right wing, conservative ruling body in Israel. One can only imagine how Israeli and Palestinian emotions rose and fell – plummeted – in the aftermath of the killing of the peace process, which essentially was seen in the aftermath of the killing of Rabin.
Some people have kept the faith on all sides of the conflict, notable among the Christians are: Elias Chacour, a recently consecrated Melkite archbishop; Naim Ateek, an Anglican/Episcopalian priest – both Palestinian Israeli citizens – Jean Zaru, a Palestinian Quaker; Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian Christian Lutheran pastor; and Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi, an Anglican herself, previously the sole female Palestinian Cabinet Member and spokesperson for the Palestinians in the occupied territories. These people are more fully addressed in the chapter on ‘Peacemakers in Israel/Palestine’.
According to Muslim and Jewish persons with whom I spoke, Yossi Beilin and Ehud Barak are two individuals who stand out for them as Israeli Jewish peacemakers. I would add Itzhak Rabin as a man who worked for peace and became a martyr for peace. Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Abu Jihad remain examples of Palestinian Muslims who worked, or continue to work for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Israel/Palestine.
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- Shalom/Salaam/PeaceA Liberation Theology of Hope, pp. 85 - 98Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2008