exerpts from today's postings on the Midwest Conservative Journal, by Christopher S. Johnson:
....the ACC's anti-Israel resolution is perceived as an anti-Semitic act and interfaith relations with the Jews have been badly and perhaps irreparably strained. ...As far as the Anglican Communion is concerned, to paraphrase Stalin, the death of a Palestinian or a Muslim is a tragedy while the death of an Israeli or a Jew is a statistic.
Whether this new perception bothers the Anglican Communion at all remains to be seen... But the perception bothers me intensely and I want no part of any organization that supports anti-Israel resolutions like the one the ACC just passed. If it is interested in repairing the damage it has done, the Anglican Communion must quickly and totally repudiate the Anglican Consultative Council's resolution.
On the divestment resolution....
Rabbi Barry Marcus, the spokesman on Israel for Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, said: “Moves towards divestment represent a flawed and disastrous course.“They will do nothing to advance the twin causes of security for Israel and statehood for the Palestinians.“The report itself took a one-sided and subjective view of the situation, and did not reflect the present reality.”
Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of British Deputies of British Jews, told The Guardian: “That Israel alone should be singled out for such treatment, particularly at a time when dialogue is beginning to prevail, shows an inequality in the treatment of the Jewish state which must raise concerns about the Church’s relationship with our community.“Once again, the outrageous falsehoods levelled against Israel are used by the enemies of peaceful co-existence to undermine the genuine goodwill of those who want to see an end to conflict in the region.”
I fervently hope that British Jews actually refuse to meet with Dr. Williams or withdraw from any meetings already planned if only for a limited time. They should not let my gracious lord of Canterbury talk them out of their anger or listen to the Anglican spin which will tell them that this resolution doesn't actually say what it obviously says. Let the Jews inform the Anglican Communion in no uncertain terms that since the Anglicans have taken sides in the Middle East, the Jewish community no longer trusts them and that if interfaith relations with the Jews interest the Anglicans at all, it is up to the Anglicans to repair the damage.
....Hitting for the idiocy cycle, the Anglican Consultative Council passed ...(a) resolution on Korea:
.... there's absolutely nothing there about North Korea's horrific human rights abuses, its concentration camps or anything else that might be even remotely critical of Pyongyang. The babbling dolts on the ACC suggest that both countries share blame for the Korean "crisis"... and believe that both countries need to take steps to prevent it ...thus equating the United States of America with the northern Korean entity, about as close to a Nazi state as you will ever see.
I used to think that official Anglicanism was something worth fighting for and worth preserving. But if the official Anglican world is going to pass resolutions as morally bankrupt as this one and the one on disinvestment from Israel, then official Anglicanism can't die fast enough.
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