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July 9, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.thejewishchronicle.net/view/full_story/19210355/article-Yes--it%E2%80%99s-personal?instance=lead_story_left_column

Yes, It's Personal

(Jewish Chronicle-Pittsburgh) Editorial - The one continuous message many Presbyterian leaders have sent in the run-up to the vote in Pittsburgh to divest from companies doing business in Israel and to brand practices of the region's only democracy as "apartheid," is that it's nothing personal. They say they really have a deep respect for the Jewish community and that they hope these measures will promote a lasting peace. Sorry, but we don't buy that - not if they adopt these resolutions. To lay the blame for the failed peace effort squarely at Israel's feet is to ignore way too many facts on the ground, not to mention facts of history. And to banter the word "apartheid" around, when the term clearly bears no resemblance to what's happening in Israel and the Palestinian territories, is nothing more than incitement by the Presbyterian Church USA. This is personal to the Jewish world, and the PC (USA) needs to know that.

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