Essay

An Ethical Critique of the United States-Israel Alliance

Reviving the Prophetic Tasks of Remembrance and Critique of Power
Daniel C. Maguire

The relationship of the United States and Israel is at the heart of Mideast tensions as well as U.S. and Israeli relationships with the Arab world and other nations. Theological claims influence policy decisions in both the United States and Israel. The usual and simplistic explanation of this close alliance, so close that Israel has been called the fifty-first State, is a shared love of democracy. This claim calls for serious prophetic and factual critique with particular emphasis on the stratagem of enforced forgetfulness that blocks efforts at reconciliation and peacemaking.

Building a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence in a Context of Oppression

Jean Zaru

Sisters and brothers, I share with you my personal witness to peacemaking in my native land of Palestine, where to be actively engaged in the building of a culture of peace and non

“Islamic” Violence in Context and Perspective

John Renard

Since the horrific events of September 11, 2001, American understandings of “terrorism” have narrowed, congealed and hardened. Many Americans now regard terrorism as a tactic employed distinctively, if not uniquely, by “jihadist” Muslims. Many have been further persuaded that Islam is an inherently violent ideology, and that, therefore, the term “jihadist” rightly applies to Muslims as a category—all 1.57 billion of them.

Anger, Grief, and the Art of Peacemaking

Michael True

The challenge of living a commitment to peacemaking, while sustaining ourselves in a violent culture, encourages us to look closely at the relationship between peacemaking and healing—that is, between peace within and without, between personal transformation and nonviolent social change. This approach to peacemaking may be familiar to anyone knowledgeable about the history of nonviolence, as well as about the relatively “new” inter-discipline of peace and conflict studies.

Religion and the Global War on Terrorism

Douglas M. Johnston
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