Presbyterian Church may pressure Israel

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Syria%20US%20Presbyterians

By ALBERT AJI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

DAMASCUS, Syria -- The head of a visiting U.S. Presbyterian Church delegation called on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories and said Monday that his church is studying the possibility of withholding investments to increase pressure on Israel.

"The occupation by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza must end because it is oppressive and destructive for the Palestinian people," the Rev. Nile Harper said in an interview with The Associated Press.

He criticized as "unhelpful" the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank to prevent Palestinian suicide bombings.

Harper, of Ann Arbor, Mich., warned that the General Assembly of his church, whose investments in U.S. firms total $8 billion, had instructed its investment agency to study the possibility of withdrawing its money from U.S. corporations whose products "are being destructively used against the Palestinians" by Israel.

[BayCityProgressive]

1. WOW!

and the European Union is talking of the possiblity of an embargo.

[shadu]

2. progress in the positive

[MrPrax]

3. It's about time...

It's about time someone is speaking out...hopefully the dam will burst and this bit of western hypocrisy will be addressed.

It has been observed that Israel is to the Left, what South Africa was to the Right...a moral embarassment

[Lizzie Borden]

4. Good for Them!

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[Racenut20]

5. Products being destructively used??

That would be the weapons industry?

[juslikagrzly]

6. Our senior pastor is a member of that delegation!

WOOO HOOOO

[Amigust]

7. That's what it took to begin to break S. African apartheid.

Right now they're still jawboning. Let's get on with it.