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Why Disney Princesses are Bad
Allen Yeh
Aladdin is still my favorite Disney movie, but I have a little bit more perspective on these princesses who are, in general, a bad idea.
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Investigating Ethics
Everett Piper
Do we really need an "investigation" to decide if twittering lewd photos of yourself to unsuspecting coeds is unethical?
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Marriage

Good Communicators are Slow to Speak
Dr. David
Rather than having "ping pong" conversations, cling to the scriptural direction of being "slow to speak and slow to anger" (James 1:19).
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Christian Marriage: A Union of Three
Kym Wright
When we married, there were three of us involved in making our marriage succeed: my husband, myself, and God.
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Singles

Jesus ... Single Like Me: Leadership by Stewardship
Kris Swiatocho
One successful component of leadership is stewardship. Not only of the things we possess like our clothes and cars, but also in the people and the ministries God has given us to lead.
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Spiritual Life

A Vanishing God
Frank Viola
Jesus often comes to us in unexpected ways and unexpected means.
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Parenting

Adoption, Identity, and Kung-Fu Panda
Russell Moore
We all face them, but for children who've been adopted, there's often a special sense of helplessness in the face of the "who am I?" and "why?" questions.
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Today's Devotional

Watch Me Work (from "Day by Day with Charles Swindoll")
"O Lord, why have you brought trouble upon this people? Is this why you sent me?" (Ex. 5:22).
Moses felt as low as a slug's belly.
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Drawing Lines: Obama's Comments Muddy Israel/Palestine Talks

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Drawing Lines: Obama's Comments Muddy Israel/Palestine Talks
Drawing Lines: Obama's Comments Muddy Israel/Palestine Talks
Jill Nelson

(WNS) -- The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has always been an explosive topic. Now President Barack Obama has added more gunpowder to the cannon.

During his Middle East speech on May 19, the president stated that the final borders for a Palestinian state should be “based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t take the late-hour news lightly: He found out the president’s intentions just hours before boarding his plane for a five-day trip to Washington. What followed was a series of rebuttals: an intense meeting between the two leaders, a press conference during which Netanyahu lectured the president on the finer points of Middle East realities, Obama’s address to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) where he accused Netanyahu of misrepresenting his words, and the Israeli leader’s passionate address to Congress during which he emphatically stated that “peace can only be negotiated with partners committed to peace.”

So why all the commotion over boundaries that essentially mirror what is already being proposed for a future Palestinian state? A look at the region’s maps, historical conflicts, and what was not included in the president’s speech helps explain the firestorm of protest over the president’s comment.

In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition British-occupied Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. Jewish leaders accepted the plan even though they would not have a contiguous state, but the Arabs rejected it. Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria launched a full-scale war. Israel fought back and won, gaining some land in the process.

Between 1948 and 1967, Egypt ruled over the Gaza strip and Jordan occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Jews had no access to the West Bank, not even to their holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City.

These boundaries lacked security, as Netanyahu reminded Obama during their meeting on May 20. “Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide, half the width of the Washington beltway,” Netanyahu said, referencing the distance at one point from the Mediterranean to the West Bank. “And these were not the boundaries of peace, they were the boundaries of repeated wars because the attack on Israel was so attractive.”

Netanyahu’s reference to “boundaries” instead of “borders” is likely intentional. The 1949 armistice lines agreed upon by Israel and its neighbors (also called the Green Line because of the green pen used to mark these new boundaries during talks) were intended to be a temporary border. The boundaries changed again during the Six-Day War of 1967 when Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank (including Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights.

United Nations Resolution 242, passed just after that war, attempted to address these territorial gains by calling for a “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.” While this resolution is often used to support a complete withdrawal from the territories, history supports a more fluid approach. The Arab nations wanted the resolution to require a withdrawal from “all the territories,” but other countries would not go along with that. When asked to explain Britain’s intentions, Lord Caradon, the architect of the resolution, said, “It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967 because those positions were undesirable and artificial.” Also part of the resolution: a clause requiring a “termination of all claims or states of belligerency” from neighboring states.

Israel completed its withdrawal from Sinai (91 percent of its territorial gain) in 1982. It evacuated the Gaza Strip in 2005. The looming question now is how to create a Palestinian state in the noncontiguous territories of Gaza and the West Bank in such a way that guarantees Israel’s security and adequately addresses massive Israeli settlement building in the West Bank. The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza led to a Hamas-ruled enclave a few years later, and Israelis fear the same could happen in the West Bank where Hamas and Fatah recently announced a power-sharing agreement.

This is where Obama appears to have pushed for the wrong course of action from a leader he continues to underestimate. Unlike prior administrations, the president made the 1967 borders a negotiation baseline for the peace process and failed to ask for equivalent concessions from the Palestinians (such as recognizing Israel’s right to exist or relinquishing refugee right of return).

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Obama’s speech “a disaster” and said the president was asking Israel “to commit suicide.” Netanyahu’s charismatic speech to a joint session of Congress earned him more than 20 standing ovations and an increase of 13 percentage points in opinion polls back home.

Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. Middle East negotiator under Democratic and Republican administrations, isn’t quite as alarmed by the comments. He believes Obama was merely trying to preempt the Palestinians from pursuing statehood recognition at the United Nations in September—a faulty plan, he added. “The issue is not whether this was pro- or anti-Israel. The issue is whether this was smart or dumb. And in my view it wasn’t smart.”

The president clarified his remarks during his speech to AIPAC on May 22, claiming that he wasn’t asking Israel to return to the 1967 borders and that negotiations would take into account “changes that have taken place over the last 44 years,” but U.S. involvement in the peace process appears to be defunct at this juncture. “I think there’s very little we can do. There isn’t any way to get the Palestinians and the Israelis to the table,” Miller said. “They seem to be running in exactly the opposite direction. The Palestinians are running to New York and the Israelis seem to think they can get by without even a public relations program to address a significant problem: The rest of the world has a double standard when it comes to Israel.”

This article published on June 7, 2011.

Copyright 2011 WORLD News Service. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Avoiding burnout in your walk with Christ

June 8, 2011

Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:30-31

So often today, I hear about ministers who are burning out, wiping out, and shipwrecking their faith because they’re just tired. They’ve worked and worked their entire lives for the ministry until one day, they just decide it’s too much, so they quit. And some even become so jaded and burnt out that they completely abandon their faith.

I don’t want that kind of burnout to happen to me and I certainly don’t want it to happen to you. And the best way that we can be sure it won’t happen is by walking in the presence of Jesus and giving time for him each day. We do this by spending time in his Word, seeking his will in prayer, and fellowshipping with one another.

The best part of the Christian experience is walking day by day, one step at a time, with your God. When you do that, being faithful to your family, to your friends, and to your church will be a natural outflow of your walk with God.

So don’t get too busy in the work of the Lord that you forget the worship of the Lord. Walk with him each day and you’ll mount up like eagles and be given strength to never grow weary!

AVOID BURNOUT IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE BY WALKING IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS AND SPENDING TIME WITH HIM EACH DAY.



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