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I work for Corrymeela, Ireland’s oldest peace centre, doing Public Theology. I produced guardiansoftheflame.org documentary and podcasts. Northern Irish Kiwi. #BorderlandsBelfast
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I want to join with many Jewish voices and Palestinian voices in celebrating the beauty of Palestine, of Palestinian lives, of their culture and the depth of their warm hospitality. I heard this quote tonight from Kwame Ture: “Peace is the white man’s word, liberation is our word”. Amen.
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This is what Trump proposed last week: the permanent displacement of Gazans into surrounding nations, after the mass slaughter of 50,000 innocent lives, so the land can be re-colonised by a population that aids the demographic agenda.
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In reality one way to be able to have all three, to be a Jewish nation, to be democratic state and to have all of the West Bank and Gaza is to ethnically cleanse.
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It has been said that Israel wants 3 things but it can only have 2.: it wants to be a democracy, it wants to be a Jewish state, and it wants all of the land of historic Palestine, which of course includes the West Bank and Gaza. It can have any two of these things but it can’t have three.
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Oh I just realised your comment was a reply Jarrod. Dr Gafney, I’d love to show you Belfast and some parts of Northern Ireland, Ireland, border areas? I wonder when you’ll be here?
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Jenn would love to meet her. I can find some connections. I wonder why she is coming. It would be amazing to meet her.
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She said she first heard Hume speak of peace, civil rights and the need to refuse violence in 1963. 35 years later he was saying exactly the same thing as he signed the Good Friday Agreement.
So let us stand in the indicative. Let us stand our ground and not swerve.
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it is so easy to feel swamped by these “clouds of resignation”.
Mary McAleese however, referenced that the poem mentions someone who she says is the late Nobel Peace Prize winner, John Hume: “one among us never swerved and stood his ground in the indicative”.
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Heaney spoke in the poem of “high banked clouds of resignation” and “guardian angel of passivity”. In this moment when we see the growth of populism, the lack of moral courage from most Western leaders in the face of genocide in Gaza and the election of a man as cruel and narcissistic as Trump…
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She also spoke about his poem “Canton of Expectation” being her favourite. As she spoke about it and it’s reference to the Troubles here in the North, I felt there was a mirroring with this particular moment in global politics, especially in places like Gaza, Lebanon and the USA.