An Activism that Loves its Enemies

Thank you Jarrod for this article. I found it poignant and deeply moving.

Thanks Jarrod, as always you inspire educate and enthuse!! May 2010 be a year of witness to peace-making in our local and globa, communities.

I didn't see the article saying the guy was a "Faith-based" peace activist. He claims to be a peace activist, and is taking the steps he thinks needs to be taken to achieve peace.

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Our Democratic Party is engaged in initiatives that will have the effect of further silencing the voice of pro-Israel supporters. Our party is seeking to expand voting rights to felons, which are denied by many states (the reasoning being that criminals guilty of major crimes should not have a role in helping to select lawmakers). As has been reported many times in the media, prisons have become centers of extreme Islamic proselytizing. Does anyone think those felons will be supportive of the America-Israel alliance?

Efforts by our Democratic Party to loosen voting requirements and abolish the Electoral College will also tend to weaken the support for the America-Israel alliance within the party, and within America. This is for two reasons: states such as Florida, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania have relatively large Jewish populations, the impact of which can swing the election in that particular state to one candidate or another.

These states also have a large number of electoral votes that can determine the President. By eliminating the Electoral College, these swing voters and their impact will be rendered meaningless. The same dynamic will affect pro-Israel Christian voters in smaller, more rural states. Their votes will become much less important if the Electoral College system is abolished. Meanwhile, our Democratic Party has capitalized on the maligned 'War on Terror' and the near hysteria over civil rights issues to court the increasing number of Muslims in America. Muslims have begun organizing politically and are receptive to these overtures.

This is best expressed by Daniel Pipes, a well-known scholar on Islam, "He has predicted that Arabs will become increasingly a key component within our Democratic Party and that the Democratic Party will abandon its historic sympathy for Israel."

Thank you, and God Bless America.

Eric Pearson, for U.S. Congress, 5th district, TN.

Web site: http://www.democraticreformparty.com
Blog site: http://blog.democraticreformparty.com

Jarrod, I greatly appreciate your point in this post. However, I would like to see you address whether you believe that the Australian soldiers are not engaged in peacemaking? They are trying to help millions of helpless Afghans regain their nation from the oppression of Al Queda and the Taliban. The man who wrote the nasty letters to the families of the dead soldiers is like someone who would write the family of a dead police officer who gave his life in a gun fight with a man raping a woman. Using force to stop violence and oppression is not necessarily always wrong.

I think I am missing something. What is the relationship between McKenna's article and your concern about "our Democratic party"?

What do you think about the quote, "there is no way to peace- peace itself is the way"? I think we need brave people to actually live this in the Palestine-Israel conflict.

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Peacemaking cannot be done primarily by military means as a general rule because the after-effects often include resentment -- which is how wars start in the first place. Besides, such radical groups often sow the seeds of their own destruction; one reason al-Qaeda lost power in Iraq was because its campaign of violence alienated many of the Iraqi people.

Peacemaking cannot be done primarily by military means as a general rule because the after-effects often include resentment -- which is how wars start in the first place. Besides, such radical groups often sow the seeds of their own destruction; one reason al-Qaeda lost power in Iraq was because its campaign of violence alienated many of the Iraqi people.