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Our goal as followers of Jesus is to affirm the dignity of all the people of Israel and Palestine, both Jews and Arabs, and to work toward a peaceful resolution of the current conflict that will assure security and equal rights for all—Christians, Muslims and Jews. Our desire is to create a conversation that is truly Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestine, Pro-Peace, Pro-Justice, and ultimately Pro-Jesus. We are convinced that what the Middle East needs most is to see Jesus incarnated in his followers as we engage compassionately and wisely with the people of Israel and Palestine.

Here’s how you can become part of this movement of peacemakers.   

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We Americans tend to be quite ignorant about what’s going on in the world. The combination of our power and our ignorance is really dangerous. We must educate ourselves if we want to part of the solution rather than perpetuate the problem.

Books: American and Middle Eastern Christian Voices

Blood Brothers, Elias Chacour
I Am A Palestinian Christian, Mitri Raheb
Apocalypse Later: Why the Gospel of Peace Must Trump the Politics of Prophecy in the Middle East, Abdu H. Murray
A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation, Naim Atifan Ateek
Palestinian Memories: The Story of a Palestinian Mother and Her People, Alex Awad
Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians, Gary Burge

Books: Historical and Political

The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan
Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007, Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar
A New Voice for Israel: Fighting for the Survival of the Jewish Nation, Jeremy Ben-Ami
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace, Aaron David Miller
In the Land of Israel, Amos Os, (Israeli)
Once Upon A Country, Sari Nusseibeh (Palestinian)
One Palestine Complete, Tom Segev (Israeli)
The Yellow Wind, David Grossman (Israeli)
The Arab Israeli Conflict, Kristen Schulze

Articles
  These articles offer a small sampling of resources produced by Americans, Israelis and Palestinians who are committed to justice, reconciliation and peace. Authors are theologians, lawyers, politicians, pastors, human rights activists.

We Refuse to be Enemies By Rich Stearns http://blog.worldvision.org/stories/we-refuse-to-be-enemies/
Following Jesus in the West Bank By Lynne Hybels www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj1007&article=following-jesus-in-the-west-bank&cookies_enabled=false
Be a Common Friend to Jews and Arabs By Lynne Hybels http://lynnehybels.blogspot.com/2011/11/common-friend-to-arabs-and-jews.html
The Place of Israel By John Stott (click on the link to the sermon to download PDF) www.stephensizer.com/2011/07/john-stott-the-place-of-israel/
A Republican’s Case for Peace By Marshall Breger www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2010/06/Opinion-Breger.html
Where Politics Are Complex, Simple Joys at the Beach By Ethan Bronner www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/world/middleeast/27swim.html
Culture as the Art to Breathe By Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb www.mitriraheb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=359:culture-as-the-art-to-breathe&catid=33:english&Itemid=20
Why I'm Leaving Journalism for Politics By Daniel Ben-Simon http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/daniel-ben-simon-why-i-m-leaving-journalism-for-politics-1.247790
Flirting With the Apocalypse By Daniel Seidemann and Lara Friedman www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/flirting-with-the-apocalypse-1.6397
Israel’s Palestinian Partner is Ready and Waiting By Libby Lenkinski Friedlander www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-s-palestinian-partner-is-ready-and-waiting-1.315403
For Israel's Sake, Moderate American Jews Must Find Their Voice By Jeremy Ben-Ami www.forward.com/articles/13154/
How Faith is Realpolitik in the Holy Land By Gregory Khalil www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15570274.2010.504035#preview
Israel's Worrisome Path By Jafar Farah and Dr. Alla Shainskaya, 04/08/11 http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/154865-israels-worrisome-path
Epilogue: The Holy Land Today By N.T. Wright www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Holy_Land_Today.htm
The Missing Mahatma: Searching for a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King in the West Bank By Gershom Gorenberg www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/329fvswo.asp
The Rat Race and the March of Folly By Shlomo Swirski www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/the_rat_race_and_the_march_of_folly_20110729/

 Informational Websites

http://peacenow.org American arm of Shalom Achshav, the Israeli Peace Now movement that was established in 1978.
http://jstreet.org Political home of the American Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Movement.
http://www.btselem.org/ The Israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories.
http://www.icahd.org/ ICHAD--Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions
www.justvision.org Just Vision is an organization that promotes and highlights the efforts of Israeli and Palestinian non-violent peace builders.
http://cfpeace.org/ Israeli and Palestinian former fights joining forces for peace.
http://www.theparentscircle.org/ The Bereaved Parents Circle, Israeli and Palestinian parents who have lost children to the conflict.
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/ Breaking the Silence, Israel Soldiers reporting on the occupation
http://www.tikkun.org Tikkun Olam, Jewish magazine
http://rhrna.org/ Rabbis for Human Rights North America
http://972mag.com/ 972Mag