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Alain Epp Weaver
Alain Epp Weaver directs strategic planning for the Mennonite Central Committee and is the author of Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future (Fortress).
The Two-State Delusion, by Padraig O’Malley
Padraig O'Malley is not the first scholar to call the two-state approach a failed paradigm. Yet where others suggest an alternative, O'Malley remains in the deconstructing stage.
Gaza: A History, by Jean-Pierre Filiu
Jean-Pierre Filiu rightly places Gaza at the center, not the margins, of Palestinian history. But he fails to let Gazans speak for themselves.
The New Middle East, by Paul Danahar
Christians in the United States who are committed to accompanying the churches of the Middle East are looking for help in understanding the shifting dynamics of the region after the Arab Spring. Paul Danahar’s lengthy study would seem to promise such help.
Planned obsolescence: The slow death of the two-state solution
A viable two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is dying; perhaps it is already dead....
Right of return: Can the Palestinians go home?
In the Jubilee vision of Leviticus 25, the dispossessed and disenfranchised are allowed to return to their ancestral homes every 50 years....
The Pacifist Option, by Alexander Webster
In the ecumenical conversation on war and peace, the voice of Orthodox Christianity has too often gone underrepresented....
Questioning birthright Israel: Issues of Jewish identity
This summer thousands of high school and college-age Jewish youth have been descending on Israel....
Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties, by Perry Bush
Perry Bush has set himself a daunting task: to tell the story of Mennonite pacifism from World War I through Vietnam....
Manipulated protest: Mosque dispute in Nazareth
For two November days, pilgrims were turned away from major Christian shrines throughout Palestine-Israel....
Drop-out Christianity: The religious right's sectarian future?
Is the religious right becoming sectarian? That was the question I found myself asking after Paul Weyrich, one of the founding fathers of the Moral Majority, recently called on Christians to "drop ...
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