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James Wall served as a Contributing Editor of The Christian Century magazine, based in Chicago, Illinois, from 1999 through 2017. From 1972 through 1999, he was editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine. Many sources have influenced Jim's writings over the years, including politics, cinema, media, American culture, and the political struggles in the Middle East. He has made more than 20 trips to that region as a journalist, during which he covered such events as Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem, and the 2006 Palestinian legislative election. He has interviewed, and written about, journalists, religious leaders, political leaders and private citizens in the region.
Jim served for two years on active duty in the US Air Force, and three additional years in the USAF (inactive) reserve. He can be reached at: jameswall8@gmail.com
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Friday, August 14, 2015Jimmy Carter Has Cancer Carter's struggle is not over, which it is why it is far too early for Jimmy Carter to leave this earthly battlefield. The pending freedom of both Israelis and Palestinians from the bondage of conflict, owes a great deal to this man.
Friday, August 7, 2015House Members In Israel for Obama-Bashing While President Barack Obama was speaking about the people's business, and his Kennedy-like preference for diplomacy over war, freshman members of the U.S. House of Representatives were either 5,000 plus miles away in Israel, or preparing to go there to be feted and educated by a foreign power which opposes the nuclear agreement the U.S. has reached with Iran and major European powers.
Thursday, July 30, 2015Iran Political Fulmination Versus Diplomatic Deal During the 60-day period Congress has to consider the deal, polls offering to describe public opinion on the deal John Kerry reached with representatives of Iran and the P5+1 major nations should be read with several tons of salt.
Saturday, July 25, 2015Thirteen Senators Who Could Make History There are currently 54 Republican senators, all of whom are on record to oppose the Iranian nuclear deal. The Republicans will need only 13 Democrats to cross party lines and vote against the deal to reach the 67 votes required for an override. To prevent that veto override, President Obama needs 34 Democratic senators to support him; otherwise the deal collapses.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015Isaiah 21:6: "Go Set a Watchman" Paired with Ambassador Chas W. Freeman's Sarsota, Florida, lecture, Harper Lee's second novel offers a strong reminder that racism is alive and well in the American political soul. This pairing also reminds us that watchmen like Freeman and writers like Harper Lee, continue to tell those willing to listen, that racism is a danger to us all.
Friday, July 3, 2015Bishops: Divestment Not in our "Best Interests" The Bishops have said, in effect, to their fellow Christians who favor divestment, "if you had invested in ministry and service inside this prison, you would have some understanding of how we must live under this dictatorship." They dare not say it, else their prison keepers would cut off their water supply, keep their new medical equipment blocked at the border, or simply go hunting for more Palestinian children to shoot.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015UCC Says No to Occupation, Votes 80% to Divest The 2005 Palestinian civil community's initial call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, was endorsed by Palestinian Christian leaders who embodied the call in the Kairos Palestine document which seeks Palestinian freedom and rights through peaceful means.
Saturday, June 27, 2015Emanuel Church Confronts Racial Violence The church and its members did not lash out in fury against racist hatred, which led to the deaths of nine African Americans sitting quietly in a Bible study group. It did what had been its style for the 200 years of its existence. It came together in prayer and a resolve to go forward, surrounded by, and filled with, the miracle of grace. There is a power in that grace, an unexplained mystery.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015"What Happens to a Dream Deferred?" Just look at the desperate way in which Israel and its allies are spending big dollars to fight the BDS campaigns. Even Sheldon Adelson has gotten into the act. Palestine's dream of freedom has been deferred far too long. It is time now to "conquer" Israel, not on the battlefield, but in the war that hits Israel where it hurts, in the world of public opinion.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015Adelson's Anti-BDS Event Links Money To Action David Palumbo-Liu, one of the few media voices to report on the Vagas gathering, traces the more recent history of the BDS movement which began with "the nearly 200 civil organizations in Palestine who put out the call for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions in 2005, and those in the U.S. and elsewhere who have answered that call.
Sunday, May 31, 2015Bibi Coalition Echoes Groucho's "Duck Soup" After his recent narrow election victory Netanyahu turned to a right wing collection of politicians to construct his latest coalition. Haviv Rettig Gur, The Times of Israel's political correspondent, wrote that "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition-building has been "a disaster," even "a farce." He blames it on Netanyahu's strange amalgam of cabinet ministers.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015Deception, Thy Middle Name is Divert In their deliberations, church leaders will need to remember that, as the wall proclaims, "Criticism of Israel is Not Anti-Semitic." They also need to remember that Israel is a nation that believes it must divert rather than face the reality of its conduct.
Sunday, May 10, 2015"I'm From that Hell Called Gaza" The injustice in Gaza and the West Bank is, indeed, a curse. It is a curse President Carter knows all too well. He grew up in the segregated state of Georgia, the same state that Martin Luther King, Jr., called home. Dr. King lived and died confronting the curse of segregation in the American South.
Sunday, May 3, 2015Gaza Crisis "Unsustainable and Intolerable" It was evident in statements following their three-day visit to Israel and a part of Palestine, that Jimmy Carter and Gro Harlem Brundtland will continue to use their influence to end Israel's self-imposed world isolation, an isolation damaging both to Israel and Palestine.
Friday, May 1, 2015Why Was Carter's Gaza Meeting Cancelled? On Wednesday of this week, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an, reported that Carter's previously planned Thursday visit to Gaza was "removed" from his itinerary "without reason." Absent any official explanation, speculation is rampart as to what led to the cancellation, raising the question, why was Carter's Gaza meeting cancelled and what prompted the cancellation?
Sunday, April 26, 2015Carter Going to Gaza for Fatah-Hamas Talks The fact that Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to meet with an ex-U.S. president, and prevents any of Israel's leaders with even a courtesy visit with Carter, is but one more sign of Israeli disdain of any and all, who do not embrace Netanyahu's vision of Israel's exceptionalism. Beginning with his meetings in Gaza Thursday, Carter plows ahead, ignoring Netanyahu's insults.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015Hot and Cold Violence Sustains Israel's Occupation In recent years BDS has grown in worldwide influence. Any action aimed at Israel's occupation of Palestine alarms AIPAC. When AIPAC is alarmed, Liberal and Conservative Zionist senators of both political parties, receive their marching orders.
Monday, April 13, 2015Gideon Levy: A Prophetic Voice from Israel Gideon Levy is a veteran columnist for Haaretz, a leading newspaper in Israel. He is a prophet, a man passionately committed to telling truth not just to power, but to people. The few prophetic voices we have, like Gideon Levy, will continue to remind us of the false prophets who have led us into the darkness.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015After Deal Palestine Turns To UN For Statehood So far, the signs of change are slipping away. After the success of the nuclear deal with Iran, a blow to Israel, the U.S. has worked hard to shore up its relationship with Israel. To add to what may be causing a return to the old Obama, the president is facing a vigorous counter-attack against the Iran deal inside Congress, an attack orchestrated by Israel.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015Bibi's Israel Remains "Settler Colonialist" State President Barack Obama falls into the catalyst response camp. He was not buying Netanyahu's backward shuffle from his pre-election assertion that there would be no Palestinian state "on his watch" nor was he impressed by Bibi's faux apology for his racist campaign language and tactics.
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