Intifada against the Pharisees

[Ariadna: A very good article and a wonderful illustration that echos my “dissident” view on Archbishop Chacour’s belief.]
Intifada Against the Pharisees

By Richard Edmondson
Today is Palm Sunday. The Pharisees are meeting in Washington.
The Pharisees are still around today, only they don’t call themselves Pharisees any more. One of the names they go by is AIPAC, or that’s how I view AIPAC anyway. And in its annual “policy conference,” opening Sunday and running till Tuesday, the lobbying organization will be exploring ways of leveraging greater support for the Pharisaic, apartheid state of Israel–as if the billions a year America already gives isn’t enough and we should all be obliged to give more.
This is actually the second conference on the state of Israel held in Washington in the past week. The first took place Friday. Entitled “Israel’s Influence: Good or Bad for America?”, it was sponsored by IRmep and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and I spent about six hours yesterday watching a video of it.
Six hours is a long time to spend viewing a video, but overall the speakers were interesting, and I managed to get a few other things done while it was playing. My one criticism is that at no point during the conference–or at least not during the six-hour portion I watched–was the word “evil” ever mentioned.
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