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Apples To Oranges:
Several Mouthfuls

Presbyterians
Come Close
To Divestment

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any of us are obsessed with food. This observa-
Have you ever been the apple
tion is not based on the obvious obesity that is
of someone's eye? At such a time life
threatening our everyday existence, but rather
seemed to be a bowl of cherries. You try to remain
on the plentiful references to food, which salt our everyday
on good behavior so as not to upset the applecart.
conversation.
In addition to our regular meals during
Because food is such a great part of our lives,
a day, we may often find that we have to eat
we make many observations using it for com-
crow, eat dirt or eat humble pie — all very
parison, for imagery.
consciousness-raising experiences.
Do you know someone who is not a very nice
We all know of rather eccentric people
person? A bad egg? Do not egg him on. If you
— not our relatives, surely — who could be
decide to defend such a one, you may end up
described as nutty as fruitcakes. In a nutshell,
with egg on your face.
these are folks who often jump from the fry-
On the other side of the spectrum is the big
ing pan into the fire, find themselves in the
cheese, who has made it in the world (and often
soup and may be regarded as often "out to
lets us all know that). Let us hope that if he is in
lunch."
the manufacturing business his product is not
Sy M anello
When making a big purchase, be wary of
cheesy.
Edit orial
getting a lemon; just because you may be on
When you want to get someone to do some-
Assi stant
a gravy train does not mean that you cannot
thing and need to present the consequences
salt something away, take all offers with a
of not acting properly, you rely on the carrot-and-stick
grain of salt, prove that you are worth your salt and are
approach. This may even appeal to the couch potato, who
not full of beans.
may seem as cool as a cucumber but is fearful of handling
I hope that I have made your mouth water with some
a hot potato and ending up as toast. Hopefully, he will find
language hotcakes and that you will make them food for
the task a piece of cake.
thought.

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roponents of using economic
pressure to force Israel out of the
West Bank may have lost a key
battle this week — by a hair's breadth —
but they have no intention of giving up.
That's the message from backers of a
divestment motion at the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church (USA), which
on July 5 rejected a proposal to divest from
companies selling equipment to the Israeli
military in the West Bank.
The 333-331 vote, with two abstentions,
at the church's Pittsburgh gathering was the
closest that the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) movement — aimed at
undermining Israel's occupation of the West
Bank — has come to a victory in a major
American religious denomination.
Friday also saw the defeat, by a substan-
tial margin, 403-175, of a resolution that
would have likened Israel's West Bank pres-
ence to apartheid. But a boycott resolution
targeting only products manufactured in
the West Bank did pass, 457-180. Delegates
also approved by a 70-vote margin a resolu-
tion supporting investment in companies
that help build the West Bank economy.
"We are concerned, but think it's unpro-
ductive," Ethan Felson, vice president of the
Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), said
of the vote to boycott West Bank products.
However, the main focus of the proceed-
ings and their aftermath was on the divest-
ment issue. Presbyterian and Jewish BDS
advocates vowed to press on.
"It appears that church commission-
ers were swayed by a fear that divestment
would cause irreparable harm to Jewish-
Christian relations': said the Rev. Katherine
Cunningham, the vice-moderator of the
church's Israel/Palestine Mission Network
(IMPN), which recommended divestment.
A 2011 church report found that
Caterpillar supplies bulldozers for the
demolition of Palestinian homes by the
Israel Defense Forces, Motorola provides cell
phone technology to West Bank settlements
and Hewlett-Packard manages information
technology for the Israeli Navy.
The JCPAs Felson called the vote against
divestment a victory even though it was
closer than previous votes in other religious
movements. Most recently, in May, the
Methodist Church defeated similar divest-
ment proposals by a 2-to-1 margin.
A number of Jewish groups pushed hard
against the divestment resolution, and more
than 22,000 Jews signed a letter organized
by the JCPA and the Jewish Federations of
North America's Israel Action Network urg-
ing against the divestment resolution. J1

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