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Low Expectations Follow Annapolis Summit

Evangelicals disagree on how to pursue peace, but agree that the renewed Israeli-Palestinian talks may accomplish little.

Kristen Scharold | posted 11/30/2007 09:22AM

Viewed as a modest success by some and as a failure by others, the Annapolis summit ended Tuesday with a decision by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert to work ...

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Rob Baker

Posted: December 11, 2007 12:02 AM

The two state solution will mean further conflict. Just as Christians were against Apartheid in South Africa we need to state clearly that both the Israelis & Palestinians people must learn to live together in peace. The Palestinians & the Israelis will continue to war & drag the rest of the world into their madness. Since both claim the land & have legitimate reasons for doing so let them share it. Cutting the land in two will result in continued hatred & violence.

H. D. Schmidt

Posted: December 02, 2007 5:17 AM

As George W., tries to mediate between these two archenemies for thousands of years, the greatest obstcacle to true peace is none other than this United States of America for acting more like a bully not only in that region but all over the world with its inhumane and horrendous war mchinery, which is a thing that is in complete disobedience of what the hopes and dreams were of the founders of this nation under God's inspiration. To make things worse, showing partisanship towards the Jewsish nation. To add more insult to injury, to get into Iraq and desthroning Saddam, who previously was a buddy to the USA as he got full support by the USA as he battled Iran's regime that a few years before had kicked out the Sha from Iran, the oil boy of America. This ambiguity on the part of the USA, how can that be a positive influence there, in the whole Arab world? Guns have never ever made any nation to permanent greatness, yet this Nation under God now has armed itself to the teeth, and more?

jim	Posted: November 30, 2007 2:30 PM

Peace in the Middle East. We all would like to see peace in the homeland of our Savior, but it seems that if we have difficulty determining how we would go about such a process. How can we be so negative about President Bush approaching the problems in the Middle East. I only know that God has given much of the land disputed over to the Jews, it is theirs. We could say that any approach is going to be a failure. I do believe that God has a plan in all of this and we really have no idea the details of that plan. It appears to me that over the years efforts to resolve difficulties there could easily have been a part of God's utlitmate plan, and we didn't have the insight to capture the reasoning of God in the matter. Let us join in prayer for this president and others to come and hope each walks in God's instruction in this matter. It isn't the first nor will it be the last in which we as Christians don't see the full picture and don't have great expectations, is it?

Lester Wright

Posted: November 30, 2007 1:49 PM

As the author of my own book on the Middle East, "Read It and Run" I thought that the CT article was fair and balanced. Those who say they are for peace but don't expect much from the President's efforts are snoozing soundly. Where is their faith? If you want to use the past as a guide to future events, try looking at what Bush has already done. There are two, no wait, three more democracies already taking shape...Afghanistan, Iraq, and now apparently Pakistan. The rest of the Arab states are lined up to support a peace inititative with Syria among them while Iran is increasingly isolated. What choice do they have with extremists breathing down their necks. A new strategic balance of power is taking shape in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Persian Gulf states forming a new security arrangement backed by the US. Prospects not good for peace... You've got to be kiddding. They have never been better. I predict an agreement will be reached and soon.

Dave Taylor

Posted: November 30, 2007 11:37 AM

It is good to try to report both sides of an issue but a much larger issue was not even mentioned. Remember that Great Britain tried in vain to negotiate peace with Nazi Germany. Why? Because the Nazis were determined to wage war - their idea of peace was total victory and total domination. It is not for nothing that Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" (translated into Arabic) is, and has been for some time, a best seller in the Arab world. The Israelis have shown repeatedly that they do want peace but the opposition has stated for the past several decades that their goal is to eliminate Israel and all, all, their actions point in that direction. What CT could do is do a series of articles on the state of the Arab world, drawing on Middle East scholars such as Bernard Lewis, to give insight as to why the Arabs are in the state they are in.

chris

Posted: November 30, 2007 10:48 AM

As someone who cares a great deal about peace in the Middle East and a Palestinian state in particular, I am saddened once again at the level of reporting here on this issue. The author interviews spokespersons for Evangelicalism on "both sides" of the issue and banties about the words "land for peace" as though that were really what this was about. Land is not all that Israel need give up. Pride, fear of fellow human beings, the right to coexistence, militarism in the name of freedom and sovereignty, relying on Evangelical Christians for her own sense of self, these are all things that make peace impossible. I didn't expect much from this summit in Annapolis, but I do know that Jesus is real Victory and Peace. May I suggest that you report more on the Church's reconciliation work on the ground in Israel and Palestine. This is where the real action is taking place.

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