Sunday, July 10, 2005
Dexter Van Zile forwards this reaction to something he posted on a Palestinian Christian mailing list concerning the anti-Semitic Palestinian Nationalist group "Sabeel" -- one of the key voices behind many of the Christian divestment efforts (see here, here and here for previous posts mentioning Sabeel).
The exchange is interesting for two reasons. First because it serves as a reminder that many (though not all, of course) Palestinian Arab Christians are fully that with all it entails -- that is, Palestinian and Arab Nationalist with all the baggage, so it's not surprising that they often pass on to visiting Christians the fully expected PLO line. The second interesting aspect is in the admission which will become obvious when you read the exchange (but I bolded it just to be sure), and which the leadership doesn't admit.
Why would a Palestinian Christian group agree to post such a venomous vile propaganda against Sabeel and the Rev Naim Ateek? I can only respond by quoting Arabic sayings such as the sole of Rev Ateek's dirtiest shoe is more dignified than the filth spewing from the mouth of Dexter van Zile. Also an attack from a lowly source on a person of superior intelligence can only be interpreted as testimony to near perfection of the latter.
-SJ
The response:
I agree with you!
Too bad that we are still fighting each others while Moslems are eating us alive (as we say in Arabic)
I can't imagine that we are so stupid as to continue fighting when everything around us calls for us to unite and work together to preserve ourselves in the midst of the jungle
Best regards
