Evangelicals' letter backs PA state

Jerusalem Post ^ | July 29, 2007 | jpost.com staff

[Piranha]

Many evangelical Christians throughout the United States support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and seek "justice" for both sides, reads an open letter to US President George W. Bush published in Sunday's New York Times.

The letter, signed by several dozen evangelical clergy and activists, urged the Bush administration not to "grow weary" in its attempt to negotiate a "lasting peace" in the region.

The letter's authors sought to correct what they called a "serious misperception" that all American evangelicals objected to the establishment of a Palestinian state, and said they hoped that the awareness of a large body of evangelical support for a permanent status agreement between Israel and the PA would "embolden" Bush.

Those who love [Israel] are not forced to withhold criticism, the letter argued, adding that "genuine love and blessing" meant promoting one's neighbor's well-being.

According to the letter's authors, both Israel and the Palestinians had rights to the land of Israel that stretched back "millennia." Both sides, the letter said, had committed acts of violence.

Only a lasting peace agreement, the letter exhorted, would end bloodshed and ensure that each side had a "viable" state. To this end, the letter's authors expressed their support for the road map peace plan, and endorsed former British prime minister Tony Blair's efforts in his new role as the Quartet's Middle East envoy.

"We renew our prayers and support for your leadership… and justice and peace for all the people in the Holy Land," the letter concluded.

List of signatories to letter

Ronald J. Sider, President Evangelicals for Social Action

Don Argue, President Northwest University

Raymond J. Bakke, Chancellor Bakke Graduate University

Gary M. Benedict, President The Christian & Missionary Alliance

George K. Brushaber, President Bethel University

Gary M. Burge, Professor Wheaton College & Graduate School

Tony Campolo, President/Founder Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education

Christopher J. Doyle, CEO American Leprosy Mission

Leighton Ford, President Leighton Ford Ministries

Daniel Grothe, Pastoral Staff New Life Church (Colorado Springs)

Vernon Grounds, Chancellor Denver Seminary

Stephen Hayner, former President InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Joel Hunter, Senior Pastor Northland Church

Member, Executive Committee of the NAE Jo Anne Lyon, Founder/CEO World Hope International

Gordon MacDonald, Chair of the Board World Relief

Albert G. Miller, Professor Oberlin College

Richard Mouw, President Fuller Theological Seminary

David Neff, Editor Christianity Today

Glenn R. Palmberg, President Evangelical Covenant Church

Earl Palmer, Senior Pastor University Presbyterian Church Seattle

Victor D. Pentz, Pastor Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Atlanta

John Perkins, President John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation & Development

Bob Roberts, Jr., Senior Pastor Northwood Church, Dallas

Leonard Rogers, Executive Director Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding

Andrew Ryskamp, Executive Director Christian Reformed World Relief Committee

Chris Seiple, President Institute for Global Engagement

Robert A. Seiple, Former Ambassador-at-Large, International Religious Freedom US State Department

Luci N. Shaw, Author, Lecturer Regent College, Vancouver

Jim Skillen, Executive Director Center for Public Justice

Glen Harold Stassen, Professor Fuller Theological Seminary

Richard Stearns, President World Vision

Clyde D. Taylor, Former Chair of the Board World Relief

Harold Vogelaar, Director Center of Christian-Muslim Engagement for Peace and Justice

Berten Waggoner, National Director Vineyard USA

[Piranha]

Who are these people? Are they serious Evangelicals? Who do they represent?

[lilylangtree]

Good question! Also, do these signers represent the whole of their organizations or just their individual selves carrying a fancy title?

[Biblebelter]

Tony Campolo, President/Founder Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education

Depends upon what you mean by evangelical. Given this list they are using evangelical to mean the social justice and humanist crowd. That is quite a spin, so much so it pervert by the using the literal definition of perversion which is to twist completely of what has become the accepted meaning of evangelical.

[ontap]

Just what we need a terrorist state that has been set up by the USA

[Dreagon]

“evangelical” tells me nothing. What denomination are we talking here?

[blasater1960]

Apparently some evangelicals arent up on their bible anymore. Pathetic.

[COBOL2Java]

Evangelicals' letter backs PA state

Yay!

Ooops, wrong PA!

[Bluebird Singing]

Tont Campolo, spiritual advisor to Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. Also seen walking with and laughing with Clinton at the funeral of Ron Brown.

[richardtavor]

The Misguided

[richardtavor]

Lovers of themselves

[pamisu22u]

The word evangelical has no meaning unless it adheres to the Word of God.
God gave to Abraham and his seed, Isaac, (not Ishmael), the promised land forever. The entire Land of Israel, including Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), Gaza, the Golan Heights, and all of Jerusalem, was given by the Lord to the people of Israel in perpetuity. See Genesis 15:18, Exodus 23:31

[quadrant]

I do not doubt the sincerity of these individuals who signed the letter, although I doubt seriously if they have considered the consequences of their actions. I do not doubt they are worried by the continuing violence in Judea and Samaria, although I doubt if they have considered the only solution.

A Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria would be little more than poor, impoverished revanchist entity that would be prey to every Islamic radical who could whip up a mob. If one wishes an small example of this, one has but to study the situation in Gaza and imagine the violence in that small area magnified a dozen times and near to Jerusalem and the heart of Israel.

I’m certain that the signers of this declaration are sickened by the plight of the Palestinians, as would be any empathetic human being. But one must remember that most of the responsibility for this terrible situation falls on the Palestinian and Muslim communities.

No doubt, Muslims feel dispossessed from land they consider theirs. But anyone studying the history or the area knows that dispossession are repeated events. Palestinians are simply those most recently dispossessed.

Two national groups with exclusive claims cannot occupy the same plot of ground at the same time. Just as Alsace-Lorraine may belong to Germany or France but not at the same time, during this period of history the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean may belong to the Jews or the Muslims.

For the last six decades or so, the area has belonged to the Jews. That Muslims are unhappy is normal, but they must accept that they have but two basic paths they can take. They can fight or accept. If they wish to fight, they doom themselves to years of death and misery. If they chose to accept, they should leave the area and migrate to the real Palestinian state, Jordan.

We, in the West, should do all we can to help and persuade them to take the latter choice. It is in our interests to do so. If we do not, if we facilitate their belief in the possibility of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, we condemn both sides to violence without end.

[Salem]

This is the same crowd Jimmy Carter is running with. It is to be expected that the Marxist/Islamist crowd, which are "tares among the wheat," have sought to hijack the rather wide ranging term "Evangelical" which has so impacted American culture these past decades as well as dominating American/Israeli relations.

SPLITTING THE EVANGELICALS FROM ISRAEL.

FReeper F15 Eagle is correct in stating, "They are evangelicals that do not believe the prophetic Word of God. They will help foster the False Peace of Daniel 8:25 where Israel is lured, after all the wars and terror, into a false sense of security."

Many more gracious than me will portray them as misguided. I feel the majority are wolves in sheep's clothing.

"A shepherd must tend his flock. And at times... fight off the wolves." Reverend Oliver - "The Patriot"

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" ... It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world."—FReeper Retief
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."—FReeper sgtbono2002
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A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"—Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."

[SevenofNine]

I hear about these guys on some Christian news site Salem

I wonder where they come from this one of Jimmy Carter homeys

[Paige]

They are False-Prophets...

[Larry Lucido]

That's what I thought! LOL!

Nevertheless, Go Blue!