The first conference on Christian apologetics in Arabic is being held in Nazareth on the 6th of June.

In an article in the Mennonite World Review, Tom Harder says:...visitors to the Holy Land, if they look closely enough, discover an awful irony. The oppressed have become the oppressors and the persecuted the persecutors.

The victims are the Palestinian Arabs (both Christian and Muslim) who had been living in historic Palestine long before the Jewish immigrants began arriving — displacing the Palestinians, destroying their villages and declaring an Israeli state

Local and international Christian leaders met in Nazareth, the hometown of Jesus, in order to discuss the contributions as well as challenges of Evangelicals to Peacemaking

It has been hard work to examine my own mind. Many questions that leave me wondering how could I have not thought about them. My solid identity has been shaken and then broken… I have been an eyewitness to the systematic oppression, humiliation, racism, cruelty and hatred by “my” people towards the “others” and what you see, you can no longer unsee… People ask for solutions. I don’t have one. I have a vision: A state for all its citizens with equal rights. A true democracy

Rev. Ajaj reflects on lessons from the Last Israeli elections and writes among other things:Much hatred was promoted during this election campaign... This shocked me as well as many people. Nevertheless, are we not asked to be the “light and salt of the earth”? How important, then, in such circumstances to promote and show love to those who have been styled as our “enemies”.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy".

We need peace in the middle east. Peace for Israel. Freedom and restoration for Palestine. But we won’t have any of it until we start questioning the horrible dispensational/fundamentalist theology that’s causing us to support terror against our own Christian brothers and sisters.

Maoz explains after the elections why Netanyahu is bad for Israel.
He also sends a message to his American Evangelical supporters of Netanyahu, who are "motivated by the hope that he will fulfill their eschatological expectation; they have little regard for our lives and welfare here in Israel"

The conference will present the Palestinian Israeli Evangelical perspective as we engage the concerns of Evangelicals around the world especially in relation to Israel.

I stand today few days before the Israeli Knesset elections that will determine what direction my country will be taking. I believe that voting is not just a civic right but an obligation- not a regular one but a Biblical one. It is a should come to support a direction that brings kingdom principles and values.