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A Christian Call for Peace in the
Middle East |
| Churches for Middle East Peace issue
"A Christian Call for Peace" in the form of a petition
[12-17-01]
We
reported a year ago on a prayer vigil campaign by the group,
Churches for Middle East Peace, in which the PC(USA) is an active
participant.
This year the group has issued a petition for peace,
which you can sign on their
web site. (Or print a copy to circulate it more widely, and
mail it to the address provided.) They will send the signatures
to our nation's leaders.
Here is the text of this year's petition:
A Christian Call for Peace
We pray for peace in the Holy Land. We are
Christians called to express our concerns for peace in Israel and
Palestine.
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negotiations in the Middle East must be a viable Palestinian state
living in peace alongside the state of Israel. For a Palestinian
state to be viable and for Israel to be secure, Israel's occupation
of the West Bank and Gaza must end. All Israeli settlement activity
in the Occupied Territories must cease.
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| We believe in the vision of a shared Jerusalem as
the heritage, hope and home of two peoples and three religions.
Jerusalem should be a shared, open city -- a sign of peace and a
symbol of reconciliation for the Abrahamic faiths.
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| We call for an immediate end to the cycle of
violence. We support a negotiated agreement for an
Israeli-Palestinian-Arab peace based on international law.
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| We strongly support the presence of international
observers as one immediate means of discouraging further violence
between Palestinians and Israelis.
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| We urge our country's leaders to do all in their
power to prepare the road for a just and durable peace. |
To sign the petition, or make a copy to
circulate more widely, go to the Churches
for Middle East Peace web site.
Another helpful site is provided by the Middle
East Forum, which includes material from Church World
Service.
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