]> http://www.shalomctr.org/taxonomy/term/27/0 en http://www.shalomctr.org/node/114 <p>Trudy Rubin<br /> <H2>Gaza bombing shattered illusions of a peace effort</H2><B>Philadelphia inquirer<br /> Posted on Sun, Jul. 28, 2002<br /> By Trudy Rubin</B></p> <p>When an Israeli plane dropped a one-ton bomb on an apartment building in Gaza last week, it killed more t</p> Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:46:40 -0400 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/30 <p>Stephen Farrell<br /> <H2>Palestinian ceasefire plan lies buried in the rubble of Gaza</H2><B>From Stephen Farrell in Jerusalem<br /> London Time<br /> July 24, 2002</B></p> <p>WESTERN diplomats believe they were within hours of clinching an unprecedented Palestinian commit</p> Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:46:40 -0400 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/33 <p>Alex Fishman<br /> <H2>Why did the Gaza bombing happen exactly when key Palestinian groups that were using terror had committed themselves to stop?</H2>The two articles that follow took up two full pages of Yediot Achronot, a mass-circulation israeli newsp</p> Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:46:40 -0400 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/189 <p>Rabbi Arthur Waskow</p> <p>In 1967, to explain why he was speaking out against the Vietnam War, Rabbenu Abraham Joshua Heschel told the story of a young Polish Hassidic boy who cried when he read the story of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac.</p> <p>"Why are you crying?" said his teacher; "You know that the angel saved Isaac's life."</p> <p>"But what if the angel had come a moment too late?" said the boy.</p> <p>Said Heschel: "Angels are never late. But sometimes human beings are."</p> <p>We &#151; all of us &#151; were too late this past week.</p> <p>In Gaza, on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, and the ambulance driver who tried to rescue him, as the boy's father begged them to stop shooting.</p> Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:22:23 -0500