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Benjamin Moore°
Palestinian speaker advocates end to Israel.
Mon. - Thurs. 9-9
Fri. 9-6 I Sat. 9-4
t an Oct. 25 program at
weak, corrupted and increasingly co-
opted [Palestinian] leadership."
Though not an Arafat supporter, he
supported Yasser Arafat's rejection of the
peace terms negotiated by the
Palestinian Authority Israel and the
United States in late 2000 that would
have divided Jerusalem and created a
Palestinian state in 95 percent of the
West Bank and 100 percent of Gaza.
"The reality on the ground was
becoming so bad that it became appar-
ent to ordinary people that if this is the
statehood offered to us, we don't want
it," he said. "For once, the Palestinians
said, 'We are not willing to accept your
limits.'"
Birmingham's First United
Methodist Church, 175 people,
mostly from the Arab and Christian
communities, applauded a Palestinian
speaker who labeled Zionism as racism
and called for an end to the existence of
Israel as a Jewish state.
Jonathan Kuttab, a Jerusalem-based
human rights attorney accredited in
New York, Israel and the Palestinian
Authority and a founding member of
Sabeel, a Jerusalem-based Christian ecu-
menical organization advocating
Palestinian liberation theology, spoke
passionately against Arab acceptance of
Crossing The Line
the compromises necessary for a two-
state solution.
Brenda Rosenberg of Bloomfield Hills,
who is active with the Interfaith Partners
The program was sponsored by
project of the Detroit-based National
Sabeel, the Palestine Office, Michigan
Conference for Community and Justice
Peace Team and the Women's
and works with Muslims and Christians
International League for Peace and
to promote peace, found the program
Freedom. The recently formed Palestine
distressing.
Office actively outreaches to churches to
"It was a very difficult two hours," she
educate and involve them in anti-Israel
said. "He crossed the line from freedom
activities. They include demonstrations,
of speech to hate speech. There are
boycotts and divestment. Last month,
the Palestine Office organized a program many incredible efforts being made
between the communities here and
in downtown Detroit featuring a replica
of part of the Israeli security barrier, call- between Israelis and Palestinians. Those
ing it an "apartheid
wall."
"No Israeli politician feels any
In his talk, Kuttab
constraints on what they can do
began by ridiculing
Israel and its supporters to the Palestinians."
who claim to want
—Jonathan Kattub
peace.
"The Israelis want to
who truly want peace must take the
find a justification for the theft of
time to sit down and listen to each other
Palestinian land and continued domina-
respectfully."
tion," said Kuttab. "They like to say,
Many of Kuttab's arguments for the
`Shalom, shalom, shalom' every day and
dissolution of Israel appeared in an Oct.
night. 'Shalom, shalom, shalom, we are
4 New York Times article by PLO legal
desperate for peace.' That charade con-
adviser Michael Tarazi, tided "Two
tinued for a long time and finally it has
Peoples, One State." Barry Rubin, direc-
been laid to rest."
tor of Herzliya's Global Research in
Kuttab believes the breakdown of the
International Affairs Center, called the
peace process and the increase in
Mideast violence and Israeli actions pro- Tarazi piece "an event of earthshaking
dimensions" writing that "defining the
vide an opportunity for "a rethinking of
conflict in these terms ensures that, no
the whole process on all our parts.
matter who leads Israel, the struggle will
'All of us in the peace and justice
go on a very long time with far more
community have been betrayed, misled
and deceived" by the prospect of a nego- suffering, and a certainty that
Palestinians will not get a state for many
tiated settlement through the Oslo
years."
process, Kuttab said. To him, the peace
Kuttab agrees that "the situation is
process became no more than "the
Israelis imposing their demands on the
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