(Toronto Star-Canada) Dow Marmur - At the United Church of Canada's recent symposium in Saskatoon, "Doing Theology on Occupied Land," the subheading was: "Engagement with Israel/Palestine." Invited to speak at the event, I posed a number of questions: Why is so much emphasis placed on Israel and so much less on the many other occupations around the world, say Tibet by China or Crimea by Russia? Why do we hear relatively little from churches about the plight of Christians in Muslim countries? Are Christians prepared to acknowledge the incontrovertible fact that the Jews are a people and should, therefore, be entitled to their own land like other peoples? The writer is rabbi emeritus at Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple.
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