FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Fwd: Israel -- that touchy topic

[Barbara Weatherhead (barbweather]

I will return from the Palestinian Territories armed with fuel for igniting the 
discussion...see you all at the end of October. 

Barbara Weatherhead
barbweather [at] comcast.net  

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Tapp [mailto:tappx001 [at] umn.edu] 
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:40 AM
To: Barb Weatherhead
Subject: [sa-talk] Fwd: Israel -- that touchy topic

We should be discussing the Middle East even more at FUS!

Bob

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: October 5, 2007 10:34:10 AM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
> Subject: Israel -- that touchy topic
>
> I have already urged humanists to tune in tonight on Bill Moyers  
> Journal where he will be interviewing Rabbi Michael Lerner and  
> discussing Christian Zionism. As preparation for this, read Milton  
> Viorst's attached discussion of the new book by John J. Mearsheimer  
> and Stephen M. Walt. If you have time, explore some of the links on  
> the current truthdig page.
>
>       http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/ 
> 20071004_milton_viorst_on_the_israel_lobby/
>
> <White> humanists have needed to be sensitive to sensitive to the  
> dangers of <white guilt> that prevents clear-eyed analyses of  
> cultures of people of color. In the same way, humanists of all  
> religious backgrounds need to avoid the pitfalls of <Gentile guilt>.
>
> Viorst (and Lerner) help by exploring variations among US Jews in  
> regard to Israeli policies. And Christian Zionism, based upon  
> curious attitudes toward the bible and its Jahweh, must be  
> implacably  opposed by humanist values of justice and fairness.  
> Tough questions (Whose land IS it?) are not solved by quoting  
> Torah, Bible, or Koran! Nor are they solved by ignoring history!  
> (Especially if the questioners have themselves inherited lands once  
> populated by Native Americans!).
>
> Bob
>
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