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  Photo:  Israeli flags fly from a home near a Muslim mosque inside Jerusalem's ancient walled city. A high-level delegation of American religious leaders visited the Middle East Dec. 7-12 to express its solidarity with churches there and to lend support to a growing chorus calling for a peaceful solution to the crisis in the area. Photo by Mike DuBose, United Methodist News Service.)
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Middle East

Outlook 2006: Pivotal Year for Israelis and Palestinians as Bush Administration Struggles with Iraq, Syria and Iran

This will be a pivotal year for all those involved with Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Both Israelis and Palestinians will be going to the polls in early 2006, with voters making decisions that will set the stage for the immediate and longer-term future. The election processes are as significant as the result. [Read more]

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A Christian Call for Peace in the Middle East

  • We believe that one of the primary outcomes of negotiations in the Middle East must be a viable Palestinian state living in peace alongside the state of Israel. For a Palestinian state to be viable and for Israel to be secure, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza must end. All Israeli settlement activity in the Occupied Territories must cease.
  • We believe in the vision of a shared Jerusalem as the heritage, hope and home of two peoples and three religions. Jerusalem should be a shared, open city — a sign of peace and a symbol of reconciliation for the Abrahamic faiths.
  • We call for an immediate end to the cycle of violence. We support a negotiated agreement for an Israeli-Palestinian-Arab peace based on international law.
  • We strongly support the presence of international observers as one immediate means of discouraging further violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
  • We urge our country’s leaders to do all in their power to prepare the road for a just and durable peace.
 
         
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