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Divestment's Downside


(Boston Globe) Editorial - The divestment campaign by the American churches isn't prejudiced, but it is naive. Any action that implicitly compares Israel to apartheid South Africa is bound to cause offense among many Jews. It is also wrong. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is far more complicated than the Afrikaners' attempt to maintain control over an overwhelmingly black society. Rather than divesting from Israel, a better strategy for American churches concerned about peace in the Mideast would be to invest in the future of a Palestinian state.
2005-08-19 00:00:00
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