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Center in Los Angeles are criti-
cizing a Protestant group for
opposing Israel's West Bank security bar-
rier. The Disciples of Christ Church
passed the measure July 27 with backing
from about two-thirds of the 3,000
members who attended the church's
general assembly. The church has
800,000 members in the United States
and Canada.
"The resolution is an ongoing effort
to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish
state,"defining Israel "as the apartheid
country in the 21st century,"said
Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the
Wiesenthal Center.
The final resolution, which was slight-
ly toned down from an earlier version,
claims that the security fence exacerbates
hostility between Israelis and
Palestinians. It calls on Israel to stop its
construction, tear down what already
has been built and pay reparations to
Palestinian property owners.
The resolution comes on the heels of
other motes by Protestant denominations
criticizing the barrier and weighing
divestment from Israel.
Considering that more active means
of Israeli defense against Palestinian ter-
rorism — such as incursions, house
demolitions or targeted killings — also
have been denounced around the world,
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dramatically reduced the number of
attacks by making it much harder for
terrorists to enter Israel. That, in turn,
has reduced Palestinian -suffering by
making Israeli counterterrorist raids less
necessary, they say.
Rabbi Cooper attended the church's
general assembly last week, along with
the center's Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
and Tzippy Cohen, a survivor of a
September 2003 suicide bombing at a
Jerusalem cafe. When debate ended, the
church delegates voted to allow an extra
two minutes for Rula Shubeita, a
Palestinian woman from Jerusalem and a
member of Sabeel, a Palestinian
Christian organization that is leading the
anti-Israel divestment movement.
Shubeita condemned suicide bomb-
ings and all other forms of violence. She
spoke about the hardships the fence has
brought to Palestinians and how she
now has to drive 14 miles to see her
brother on the other side and claimed
that its now impossible for her to visit
Bethlehem, Jesus' birthplace.
"The wall increases the frustration of
the Palestinians and increases the acts of
violence," she said.
Contrary to the claims in the resolu-
tion, Israel does compensate Palestinian
landowners who are affected by the bar-
rier; and they retain ownership of their_
land, said Omer Caspi, Israel's deputy
consul general in San Francisco. "This is
a temporary measure, for defense, until
the terrorism stops," Caspi said.
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