Presbyterians struggle to know their own mind about modern day Palestine and Israel. The Zionists among us are intrigued by the idea that today’s Israel is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy about events preceding the return of Christ. They tend to exalt Israel and demonize the Palestinians. Others, myself included, consider present day Palestinians, especially Palestinian Christians, as largely oppressed by an Israeli occupation of their land. I admit that my views are colored by a study pilgrimage that I made to Israel in 1997, where I met a family of Palestinian Christians and heard from their lips the difficulties of life under the Israeli government.

Israpundit.com portrays the present situation as war between Palestinian terrorists and all of Christiandom.

Israpundit: Presbyterian Church USA’s Friends

Now let’s take a look at what PCUSA’s good friends in Hezbollah are planning to do in Norway and Denmark. Per “The War is On” From the desk of Hjörtur Gudmundsson on Fri, 2006-02-03 01:54

Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. “The war has begun,” he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. “It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.”

Islamist organizations all over the world are issuing threats towards Europeans. The Islamist terrorist group Hizbollah announced that it is preparing suicide attacks in Denmark and Norway. A senior imam in Kuwait, Nazem al-Masbah, said that those who have published cartoons of Muhammad should be murdered. He also threatened all citizens of the countries where the twelve Danish cartoons [see them all here, halfway down the page] have been published with death.

Note also that Hezbollah is a Foreign Terrorist Organization as defined by the U.S. State Department and that it is guilty of murdering 241 United States Marines with a truck bomb. The Presbyterian Church USA has consorted with this terrorist organization on more than one occasion.

The Presbyterian Church USA is aiding and abetting Palestinian terrorism by agitating for divestment from Israel.

The position of the PCUSA is not as unambiguous as that last sentence implies. The national leadership of the church has an unsavory anti-U.S. flavor to it in many respects, and that leads them to make naive and uninformed public statements that do not necessarily reflect the majority view of PCUSA membership.

Dave, remembering his Palestinian Christian friends so far away.