Comments on: A Difficult Decision http://www.icpj.net/2006/a-difficult-decision/ Mobilizing people of faith and conscience to build a better world Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Chai Montgomery http://www.icpj.net/2006/a-difficult-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-5746 Chai Montgomery Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:00:12 +0000 http://www.icpj.net/?p=124#comment-5746 Greetings all. I am not an active member of the ICPJ, but my family and I have supported the group (both financially and as occasional participants at events) for many, many years, having lived in Ann Arbor for more than four decades. Recently, I've been following developments within the ICPJ around the Middle East Task force. I read this website as well as the <a> website. I disagree with the steering comittee's decision to suspend the METF. It was a mistake, and a concession to Zionists within the Beth Israel congregation. I think that mediation is key now to reinstating the Task Force, despite some members' discomfort with the situation in in the middle east, which simply must be confronted honestly, and dispassionately (I'm referring to those who would refuse to recognize Israel's historically "imperialist" aggression in the region, and it's consistantly destabilizing --and genocidal-- effects. Peace demands recognition, repentence and atonement. Te Task Force itself should be free to draw criticisms of Israel in its effort to make political sense of the situation. In situations like 'Israel/Palestine' its crucial that analysis move beyond slogans like "cease hostility on both sides" which fail to get at the roots of the hostility and are therefore unable to stop it. The Task Force should also include Arabs and Muslims, as it has in the past. Greetings all.

I am not an active member of the ICPJ, but my family and I have supported the group (both financially and as occasional participants at events) for many, many years, having lived in Ann Arbor for more than four decades.

Recently, I’ve been following developments within the ICPJ around the Middle East Task force. I read this website as well as the website.

I disagree with the steering comittee’s decision to suspend the METF. It was a mistake, and a concession to Zionists within the Beth Israel congregation. I think that mediation is key now to reinstating the Task Force, despite some members’ discomfort with the situation in in the middle east, which simply must be confronted honestly, and dispassionately (I’m referring to those who would refuse to recognize Israel’s historically “imperialist” aggression in the region, and it’s consistantly destabilizing –and genocidal– effects.

Peace demands recognition, repentence and atonement.

Te Task Force itself should be free to draw criticisms of Israel in its effort to make political sense of the situation. In situations like ‘Israel/Palestine’ its crucial that analysis move beyond slogans like “cease hostility on both sides” which fail to get at the roots of the hostility and are therefore unable to stop it. The Task Force should also include Arabs and Muslims, as it has in the past.

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