Good article in the NY Times earlier this week about Sister Ruth Lautt, former laywer turned nun who started the group Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East.
"In a typical speech last November at Boston College, she commended the liberal churches for 'a wholesome, Gospel-centered concern for Palestinian suffering, which is real,' and endorsed a two-state solution. But she also made the case for Israeli self-defense, even in the form of the separation barrier."
“ 'I need to question how people feel they have the right in the name of peace and justice, to tell other people not to try to preserve their own lives,' she said at one point. 'You’re not obligated to lay down and die.' ”
Hat tip to Solomonia.
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