In a recent posting, I called attention to a quote from Rashid Khalidi, who quotes William Quandt.
Quandt sums up the Palestinian dilemma in past U.S. secular presidential decision-making with a simple declaration: "the Palestinians had no domestic constituency."
Religious communities in the U.S. are supposed to function as the nation's conscience, the moral center that speaks for the voiceless and the oppressed.
Unfortunately, in the matter of Israelis and Palestinians, with some scattered but notable exceptions, our religious communities remain trapped in their own self-imposed political prison, euphemistically referred to as "interfaith dialogue."
Despite its innocuous appearance, the phrase, "interfaith dialogue" refers to the amazing assumption that to maintain friendly relations with people of the Jewish faith, Christians must overlook the atrocity of the modern state of Israel's military occupation of the Palestinian people.
Or to put it in the vernacular, "Me and the rabbi, we go way back. Palestinians? Don't know any. What's for lunch?
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