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The Gaza Conflict and Concentration Camps
By
Paul Raushenbush
Beliefnet Bloggers Rabbi Brad Hirschfield and David Gibson have had an interesting, heated and apparently productive debate that was initiated by a Catholic comparing Gaza to a concentration camp. From the last post by Rabbi Hirschfield: Thanks to Pontifications blogger, David Gibson, for engaging in one of the more interesting Catholic-Jewish conversations in which…
The Gaza Conflict: From Status Quo to Solutions
By
Paul Raushenbush
My friend Eboo Patel, the executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, wrote a great piece on the On Faith blog at the Washington Post. He has three status quo approaches that continue the cycle of violence and then contrasts them with four solution approaches that he proposes to break through the deadlock. I wonder…
Obama Rejects Torture
By
Paul Raushenbush
President Elect Obama gave the American people an injection of much needed hope for the moral underpinnings of our country at this press conference. It is especially striking in contrast to Dick Cheney. ‘Under my Administration the United States does not torture, we will abide by the Geneva conventions, we will uphold our highest values and…
The Urgency of Now – Obama Must Act on Gaza
By
Omid Safi
The death toll from Gaza keeps rising like a morbid nightmare, from 150 to 300, to at last count 702 victims. 702 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military through massive bombings that have inflicted unimaginable violence upon some of the poorest, hungriest, and most defenseless people on Earth. Mosques have been bombed. Hospitals bombed, including…
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