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Current Issue
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The Olive Trees of Palestine
This article reminded me of the story told of the axe that a woodcutter carried into the forest. Upon seeing it, one tree whispered to another, “Look, the handle is one of us.” Ed Dillon, our feature writer, has written two previous Link articles: one in 1983 on the plight of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons—at the time he had just spent 15 years working with prisoners in the Philadelphia area. His other article, in 2001, viewed the plight of the Palestinians as a modern-day reenactment of the stations of the cross. Ed is a priest of the Catholic diocese of Rochester, N.Y. He holds a postgraduate degree in biblical studies from the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome, where his studies included research in Jerusalem. In addition to his years of teaching scripture, he now helps at a parish in upstate New York, which includes five village churches and the state university of New York at Geneseo. He has conducted several AMEU-sponsored tours to the Holy Land and, since 2003, has been a member of our board of directors. This issue of The Link is about olive trees and Palestinian farmers. It’s also about buzz saws and Jewish settlers. Finally—and this is what reminded me of the story of the axe handle—it is about us, the U.S. taxpayers, who are underwriting those settlements and facilitating the purchase of their saws and backhoes and bulldozers. I can almost hear the taxpayer who knows all this whispering to another taxpayer: “Look, the criminals are us.” Our “Link’s Links” interview on page 12 [see PDF] is with investigative journalist Philip Weiss, editor of the popular weblog Mondoweiss. Page 13 [PDF] lists current AMEU book selections. Page 14 [PDF] lists books from our research library which, for space reasons, we need to reduce. Some of these books are out of print, some show their age, all are reduced in price. For most of them we have only one copy, so it will be first come, first served. On page 15 [PDF], in addition to our video selections, we invite readers to introduce others to The Link with a special $20 gift subscription. Page 16 [PDF] carries two appeals that are vital to our work: One is the annual voluntary $40 subscription, the other is a reminder that one way AMEU has been able to carry out its programs over the past 42 years is because supporters have remembered us in their wills.— John F. Mahoney, Executive Director, January 2010.
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