The Wednesday Edition

Our Wednesday News Analysis

December 25, 2024 14:20

EDITORIAL | MERRY CHRISTMAS!

What is even more extraordinary about the Manger in Bethlehem? It’s about salvation—preservation or deliverance from harm,ruin, or loss. “They try to present it to us as economic salvation.” In theology, salvation signifies deliverance from sin and its consequences – a return to God.

I sense salvation as being enveloped in His Holy Presence, “where there is fullness of joy.” Salvation on earth is a journey toward holiness. The path to salvation is narrow and challenging, filled with convoluted uphill obstacles.

On earth, Salvation – the walk and talk toward holiness – is more complicated than in heaven. Thank goodness for grace. One can’t earn their way into heaven. Grace is a given.

The manger trumpets an existential truth, a life, and a way known from the beginning:

Talk his truth.
Live his life.
Walk his way.

Christians believe they are called to become a light among nations, to spread the good news about the Kingdom of God, the Promised Land.

Jews are called to become a light among nations and to invite others into the Promised Land.

Muslims are called to become a light among nations to encourage people everywhere to submit to Allah (in Arabic), Elohah (sound-alike in Hebrew), and Elohim (the plural perception of God as described in Genesis).

Zion, the Kingdom of God, is the Promised Land. The Good News is that Zionism is a return to God.

Biblically, Zion always refers to the City of God. We can achieve global peace through God's strength, rather than relying solely on our own.

Christmas means a return to God.

I AM LIVING MY OWN NAKBA

I have lost my home and I feel I may be losing my homeland too.
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Source: The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/genocide-the-new-normal

By Chris Hedges
Published January 6, 2025

Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.
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January 15, 2025 14:31
Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/we-die-so-they-may-live-struggling-for-survival-amid-gazas-rubble/

By Donya Abu Sitta
Published January 11, 2025

Amid the rubble of Gaza, survivors recount harrowing tales of endurance, loss, and resilience in the face of unimaginable devastation.
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Our Wednesday News Analysis | How the Gaza war will shape Israel’s future

January 22, 2025 13:53
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2587127

By Ramzy Baroud
Published January 20, 2025
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January 29, 2025 14:43
Source: Drop Site
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/20000-palestinian-children-orphaned-by-gaza-war

By Rasha Abou Jalal
Published January 22, 2025

Palestinian families have stepped in to take care of children not their own but the volume of children orphaned by the war is staggering
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Our Wednesday News Analysis | Dear world: This is what Palestinian unity looks like

February 05, 2025 14:46
Source: Middle East Monitor
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250129-dear-world-this-is-what-palestinian-unity-looks-like/

By Dr Ramzy Baroud
Published January 29, 2025
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Our Wednesday News Analysis | The strategic cost of Israel’s endless wars

February 12, 2025 11:37
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2589674

By Dr Ramzy Baroud
Published February 10, 2025
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February 19, 2025 14:32
Source: Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/peter-beinart-being-jewish-after-gaza-destruction-book-review

By Azad Essa
Published February 14, 2025

Beinart's latest book treats Zionism as a given, erases historical Jewish opposition to the racist ideology, and gives credence to a Jewish claim over Palestine
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Our Wednesday News Analysis | Opinion | Thanks to Its Regime, Israel Is Losing the Justification For its existence

February 26, 2025 13:28
Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/thanks-to-its-regime-israel-is-losing-the-justification-for-its-existence/00000195-1416-d00a-adfd-7cd7ea380000

By Michael Sfard

Published February 18, 2025

Israel, a Failed State — The abandonment of its citizens in captivity in favor of pursuing the messianic ideology of the radical right, in addition to the rampant repression of government critics, has rendered Israel a failed state
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Our Wednesday News Analysis | Netanyahu only ever saw the hostages as his path back to genocide

March 05, 2025 14:46
Source: substack.com
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/netanyahu-only-ever-saw-the-hostages

By Jonathan Cook
Published February 26, 2025

Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the Israeli captives that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitable
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