Auf welcher Seite stehst du? This is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Beit Jala. In this church I then, in the year 1985/86 together with another German pastor and Shihad die Gottesdienste für die Gemeinde gestaltet, Lieder herausgesucht und dann im Gottesdienst gesungen.
Er war ein echt netter Mensch. Alle Palästinenser, die ich kennenlernte, waren nett und haben mich gut behandelt. Meine angeheiratete Familie hat mich angenommen, hineingenommen und die herzliche Verbindung besteht bis heute.
Ich wage heute gar nicht daran zu denken, welche Lehre mich beeinflusst and the view I have developed, I would, however, remained in Beit Jala. I would probably not perceived as wrong.
You have to prevent even just that one person reads the Bible as God's word seriously and to get practical teaching. (Normal in many churches, is not it?). Then he is open to all, has to offer the world of ideologies, doctrines, political views and religions. And mixing with the Christian faith is then not a big deal anymore. For Christians in Bethlehem anyway. is your tradition and community but they hold but no real faith. Even then, could I see that only when true faith be there was, the people clearly distanced themselves from their Muslim compatriots. However, I also heard anyone express solidarity with Israel.
I believe that the Palestinian Christians lived and still live in a permanent ideological dilemma. Your way out as on the two issues, the Muslims, and Israel to talk as little as possible. Then you come not in the embarrassment of having to reveal themselves. This led to many but also to an identity crisis. The resulting solution was: a emigrate), b) are reflected clearly in one way or the other. Most of those who remained in the country, beat on the other side just to see Jadalla Shihad. I would probably be both spiritually and politically stuck in a gray area. But when I had God - as in many places in my life - his hand in the game.
that I However, at this time in my political views (if I even had an attitude!) Has been very pro-influenced Palestinian was can be seen from the fact that I had in the first years Germany (from 1989) went pro-Palestinian events. I had, because my life among the Arabs was not bad, shifting my identity and I felt completely one with the Palis. And I wanted to show it. I was even at Felicia Langer Events in Tübingen, and I clapped their applause! However, I never had
Israel-hostile attitude. Since I'm with my husband rumgereist very often in Israel, we have identified many nice Israelis Engelen t.
Nevertheless, I listen in the first few years in the CGR at lectures and sermons on Israel only with anxiety and sometimes had to go out early, because I adulation when von dem wunderbaren, auserwählten Volk, das die Wüste zum Blühen bringt, geschwärmt wurde, nicht ertragen konnte. Erst nach und nach fing sich mir an, das Wort Gottes zu erschließen. Wir wurden in der Gemeinde dazu angehalten, die Bibel ganz zu lesen. Die Bibel nach Bibelleseplan in einem Jahr durch! Das blieb nicht ohne Auswirkung. Zusammen mit einer guten Auslegung bzw. Lehre hat es den Effekt, dass man die größeren geistlichen Zusammenhänge erkennt, Gottes Wort als sein Wort an uns Menschen wertet und natürlich entdeckt, was die Bedeutung von Israel ist.
Wie ich allerdings I have an almost enthusiastic love for His people, is still inexplicable to me. Because he gave me this love for the Jews and Israel has placed in my heart. I was changed, my attitude turned around 180 degrees. Nevertheless, my heart is still very much for the Palestinians, as I always kind, warm-hearted people have kenengelernt. But it is now difficult to show that. For the Palis are just so pathetic and do everything wrong, what you can do wrong. D he can be Christians by the Muslims in a political attitude, crowd d ie Muslims are upset by Islam, and all can be spoon-fed by their Muslim "brothers" abroad in this conflict and abuse. you are allowing radical and corrupt the shots and do not have the courage to rebel against the lies and the obvious injustice. you all up to Bethlehem - the most famous Christian city in the world - and cry the adjacent places the Muslims and then, because the Israelis into the dangerous region can no longer do tourists. They can be for sixty (!) Years in pen in filthy refugee camps. And there are wealthy Palis, who build their new comfortable house right in the camp, but so it is not the same visible. The sometimes vast social differences, but of course reluctant to be related to language . There, it would also not face to lack of money, but a political weapon in the world, will not cease to regret the suffering of the Palestinians and as a result of the inhuman oppression of the Israeli Besatzung anzuklagen. Diese schwache und ganz eindeutig ungerechte und nicht friedensbereite Haltung der Palästinenser, wie sie sich heute mehr und mehr zeigt, macht es mir eher leicht, meine Sympathiebekundungen für die die Palästinenser zu zügeln. Aber ich sehe, dass es auch anders geht. Es gibt ganz wenige echte Christen, die in ihrem Umfeld das Evangelium und die Liebe Gottes verbreiten. Ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste. Man weiß nicht, wie lange noch. It is necessary to support and pray for them.
When I look at the photos, I always think back with some nostalgia to the time when the situation there is not yet quite so hopeless was the borders open and Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour were still Christian.
be When are the Palestinians to peace? I think until they open the Bible and see it:
"Even if I did not stay with you, ye shall yet have peace My peace I give unto you a peace that can give you no one in the world. . Therefore, be without anxiety and fear! " (Jesus to his disciples)
Antiisraelische Aktion in Metzingen begins in early November in Metzingen (near Reutlingen) a three-week so-called peace week under the name: "Breaking Walls". The resident priest Peter Metzger directs and initiated this very one-sided anti-Israeli action along with his friends as one-sided set of Beit Jala, expl. the resident pastor Jadalla Shihad, in Beit Jala, the hostel Abraham (see vorangeganener post of mine: "film about Abraham hostel - Beit Jala") operate.
The large-scale operation with lectures, discussions, film presentations and receptions is used to the hostel in Beit Jala to make known to collect money for them, under the misleading name of "peace work", current company while struggling with all the tricks against Israel and Israel to move in a bad light.
It is the anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic film "The Heart of Jenin" Metzinger shown in cinema. Ulrich Sahm writes about this: "A really good movie that will certainly receive many awards, but it is also a one-sided propaganda piece of work, are likely to stir up anti-Jewish feelings among the German public.."
in place of Metzingen sheet, press the southwest, now appeared in this regard, the following items:
A controversial influence
Metzinger days of peace in the shadow of Abraham's hostel
"walls" in the days of peace.
The Ecumenical Decade of peace has arrived. It is all about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The speakers come from the world of Abraham's hostel. And that is not without controversy.
CAROLA Eissler
Metzingen "Overcoming walls" is this year the theme of the Ecumenical Decade of Peace, held from 6 to 25 November takes place in Metzingen. The makers is about to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago and walls in the world visible. Rev. Peter Klaus Metzger and the organizers of the Peace Days Metzinger take this opportunity to move to Israel and the situation in the Palestinian autonomous areas in the center. The focus will be placed on since 2002 with a construction fence between Israel and the West Bank and the wall between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. A protection from Palestinian suicide bombers. After all, since the start of the bomb attacks in Israel have declined by 98 percent.
are however especially for peace activists of this fence and the resulting Israeli policy in the criticism. Metzger sees it this way: "The fact that this wall is on Palestinian land, ist völkerrechtlich ein Skandal." Der Situation der Palästinenser in der Westbank, der israelischen Politik, den Aktionen europäischer Friedensaktivisten und der Konsequenz, die man aus dem Fall der DDR-Mauer für die israelische Mauer ziehen kann, sind die Themen in Metzingen gewidmet. Dass gerade der Nahostkonflikt thematisiert wird, ist kein Zufall. "Es bestehen eben Kontakte zu profilierten Leuten", betont Metzger.
Dabei sind es mehr als bloße Kontakte. Denn Metzger hat zum einen bereits an Friedensaktionen entlang der Mauer teilgenommen, zum anderen kommen sämtliche Gastredner aus dem Umfeld der Abrahams Herberge Beit Jala in der Westbank, in dessen deutschem Förderverein Metzger im Vorstand aktiv ist. Die Abrahams Hostel, an agency of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is a "bridge to peace," it said in a self-presentation of the association. The pastor of Beit Ibrahim, who runs a guest house and a boarding school, is the old college friend butcher from Tuebingen days, Jadallah Shihadeh. It was in February, even in Metzingen and has here the drum for his body stirred, just like it more than half of the year in Germany and Europe to raise money for his "peace project" as he calls it, collect and ideologically to influence public opinion. Supported by the German Friends of Abraham the same hostel. Also flowed from Metzingen Money to Beit Jala.
Shihadeh comes this time not even on the days of peace, but sends his German wife, as is the mayor of Jena, the theologian and SPD-Mann Dr. Albrecht Schröter was invited, also to the initiated by the Beit Ibrahim demonstrations in the West Bank has participated, and another board member of the Society Beit Ibrahim, the entrepreneur Karl-Hermann Blickle, who will speak about ethics in business.
Metzinger days of peace, then, in the shadow of the influence of Abraham are the hostel and their political and ideological orientation. This Shihadeh and its furnishings in Beit Jala are themselves anything but uncontroversial. Shihadeh not speak for all Palestinian Christians, says an informant who do not want to be named for security reasons, compared with this newspaper. While weather Shihadeh bodied against the Israeli policy say, but not a single word about Islamic suicide bombings and the expulsion of Christians from the Palestinian territories. Probably out of fear. "Otherwise the next day would burn his church."
The Beit Ibrahim has changed in the six years of its existence to a lavish luxury hotel. If Shihadeh, arguing that the Palestinians, the Israelis would regularly turn off the water in Germany for anti-Israeli Tone gives, then can only eyewitness smile. Finally, operating on the local area consuming water games.
But there are other inconsistencies. Shihadeh Sun claims to have spent, in the Beit Ibrahim Christians, Jews and Muslims to get together. But the fact is that Jews from entering the so-called A-Zone, located in Beit Jala, is prohibited by the State of Israel for security reasons. In Germany, Shihadeh is happy as a driving force in the peace efforts in the dialogue between the religions he plays but also in the West Bank, a minor role. This person is Shihadeh too controversial. From his Lutheran brethren, he is shunned normal. A few years ago the pastor was even close to being thrown out of the church. It is said to have been controversy over the use of donated funds. Shihadeh may harm but also of his luxurious life style because of the reputation of the church. Of money it seems to be missing in the Beit Ibrahim not in any case, even though the guest house is often empty. Thus completing the Beit Ibrahim in August even four weeks of their doors and its 16 employees funded an expensive stay in Switzerland. However
can enjoy Shihadeh broad support from Germany. There is, for example, the Jena Mayor Schröter, coming as mentioned also in Metzingen. He exercises regularly to close ranks mit den Friedensaktivisten in der Westbank. So demonstrierte er diesen Sommer gemeinsam mit Metzger an der Mauer zwischen Bethlehem und Jerusalem. Mitmarschiert im Protestzug ist auch der oberste islamische Richter in den palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi. Jener Mann, der zwei Monate zuvor beim Besuch des Papstes im Heiligen Land für einen Eklat gesorgt hatte, als er bei einem interreligiösen Friedensdialog eine Hasstirade über Israel ergoss und die Christen dazu aufrief, die Muslime in ihrem Kampf gegen den jüdischen Staat zu unterstützen.
In welche Richtung die Friedenstage weisen, hat bereits ein Informationsabend vor einigen Wochen im Martinsgemeindehaus gezeigt. Dort wurde kräftig für die Abrahams Hostel advertised. And serving the well-known anti-Israeli stereotypes based on a film. Also the film "Heart of Jenin" to be shown at the Luna Theater, is anything but uncontroversial. The well-known Middle East correspondent Ulrich Sahm even talks of propaganda concoction, the brochure with the German public anti-Jewish feelings.
that in the days of peace in Metzingen, the communist regime from a domestic German wall built equated with the Wall in Israel, is seen also in the German-Israeli Society in Stuttgart extremely critical. The chairman Hans-Hellmut Schuerholz warns against simple slogans and one-sided partisanship. "Peace can namely only with security geben." Die Veranstalter der Metzinger Friedenstage werden sich die Frage stellen müssen, ob es ihnen um objektive Informationspolitik geht oder um schlichte einseitige Verurteilung Israels.
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Veranstalter: AK Gentechnik-Freies Ermstal, ACK, Bündnis 90/Grüne, Café International, Evangelische und Katholische Kirchengemeinde, Baptisten, SPD, Weltladen, Familienbildungsarbeit.
Erscheinungsdatum: Samstag 31.10.2009
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