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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

My Land, Your LandMy Land, Your Land

My House, Your My House, Your HouseHouse

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn 1917….• World War I was nearing an end

• The Ottoman Empire was in its last days

• The British Empire was about to gain control over the land known as Palestine

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn 1917….• 90 % of the indigenous people were

Palestinians– Almost all the cultivated land was held

by Palestinians– A mere 5.8% of the land was under

Jewish ownership

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn 1917….• In Christian cities, population was

overwhelming Palestinian.– Bethlehem

– Nazareth

– Ramallah

– Beit Sahour

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandTo put it another way, in

these and other cities, towns, and villages, the majority of the people were Arab Palestinian Christians.…

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandAs 1948 began….• Palestine was under British control

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandAs 1948 began….• Palestine was bounded

by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandAs 1948 began….• There were no

countries in this land of mountains, deserts, and sea coast…only people.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandAs 1948 began….• 2/3 of the indigenous people were

Palestinians: primarily Arabs

• 1/3 were Jewish newcomers: Zionist settlers and war refugees

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandAs 1948 ended….• 800,000 Palestinians had been forced

from their homes, never permitted to return

• 531 Palestinian villages had been destroyed

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandAs 1948 ended….• Israel had emerged as a nation

• The Armistice or “Green Line” had been drawn, dividing Israel from the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

What was Palestinian land had become Israeli land.

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Houses which had been home to Palestinian families now sheltered Israelis.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIn Jerusalem they included these….

And And this one with the owner’s one with the owner’s name still engraved for all the name still engraved for all the world to see.world to see.

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The Palestinian owners never received one Shekel in compensation, and ….

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To this day they have not been allowed to return to their homes.

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

Whose land?

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

Whose house?

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

What is right?

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

What is just

and fair?

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

These are the questions under which the Christian Church lives in the Holy Land.

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These are the hardships:

•The Occupation

•The Settlements

•The Separation Barrier

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These are the hardships…

The Occupation

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Since 1967 Israel has been in complete control of Palestinian life.

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land• No freedom of movement

• No right to build a house on their land

• No freedom to live or go or worship where they choose

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

These are the hardships…

The Settlements

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandBefore the guns barrels

cooled in 1967…Israel began to colonize

illegally the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandThe number of Israeli setters

illegally on Palestinian land now exceeds

450,000

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandThe government of Israel

provides…

•Settler only roads

•Economic subsidies

•Protection by the army

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49% of Israeli settler housing sits on stolen privately-owned Palestinian land.

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

These are the hardships…

The Separation Barrier

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Variously called a fence, a security barrier, a wall, an apartheid wall…

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandIt still separates 480,000 dunums

[120,000 acres] of Palestinian land from the West Bank,

and encloses 191,000 dunums [48,000 acres] more.

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Robs villages and individual farmers of their agricultural property…

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandSeparates tens of thousands of

Palestinians from the West Bank, with estimates going as high as 12% of all West Bank people.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandGives Israel control of virtually

all the Palestinian water…

Makes an independent Palestine state absolutely impossible.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandThe Christian Church in the Holy

Land.

Now less than 2% of all people in Israel/Palestine.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandEvangelical Lutheran Church in

Jordan and the Holy Land.• 2,000 members

• 6 congregations [5 in the West Bank]

• 4 schools, plus kindergartens and special educational programs

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandCalled To Be….• Prophets of Hope

• Builders of Bridges

• Agents of Reconciliation

• Voices for Justice

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandStanding alone the Church

may become a collection of beautiful buildings with caretakers…living under perpetual occupation.

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The Holy LandThe Holy LandWith the Church throughout

the world standing firmly and faithfully beside Christians of the Holy Land…Peace is Possible!

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

Tell the President and Congress….

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The stories of two peoples – not one – are carved into the Holy Land.

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Tell them…..

It’s not too late

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But it will be soon!

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

Tell them…..

There can be no peace without justice

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

Tell them…..The whole world is watching

to see if we mean what we say about truth and justice.

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Tell them…..

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

Russell O. Siler, Pastor Russell O. Siler, Pastor (2003 – 2007) (2003 – 2007)

Lutheran Church of the RedeemerLutheran Church of the Redeemer

English-speaking CongregationEnglish-speaking Congregation

Jerusalem - Old CityJerusalem - Old City

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The Holy LandThe Holy Land

This presentation was produced by Bob Mullen in appreciation and gratitude for the Silers’ work for peace with justice in the Holy Land.

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My House, Your My House, Your HouseHouse