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At a recent Executive Committee meeting of the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel (NCLCI) in Washington, D.C., most of one day was spent discussing the current situation in Israel and, as expected, we had committee members on both sides of the debate. Some thought the peace process had gone too far and was endangering Israel’s security. Others felt that the peace process had not gone far enough and was on the verge of collapse, a situation that would endanger Israel’s security. Some felt that the construction at Har Homa was unnecessary and provocative; others felt that due to the critical housing shortage in Jerusalem the construction is necessary and no more provocative than any other action that demonstrates Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. However, no one questioned the Israeli government’s legal right to build at Har Homa.   Read More

By Edward H. Flannery

The epochal return of the Jewish people to sovereignty in their ancient homeland in our time has been greeted with relatively little attention from Christian theologians.  A few have questioned whether there can be a theology of today’s Israel at all.  A goodly number, however, covering a wide spread of Christian thought, have taken up the subject with results that, while tentative and incomplete, are nonetheless promising.  Read More

To take a troubled view of the obvious progress made in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace process may appear, to many, unwarranted.  So far the process has gone so well, true, but at what price for Israel?  Some friendly critics have a foreboding that the peace may be lost up ahead, and go so far as to claim that Israel is seeking peace at any price.  She is seeking peace, I believe, at the right price.  Read More

By Edward H. Flannery       Read More

There are rumors that antisemitism is increasing in the U.S.  One Jewish defense agency asserts it. Another denies it.  There is, of course, a fear that calling attention to incidents may inspire imitators.  As a Gentile student of antisemitism, and especially of its roots in centuries of Christian triumphalist theology, I have the sense that there is indeed a dangerous groundswell of resentment of “the Jews.”  Read More

by Rev. Edward H. Flannery   Read More