{"id":7715,"date":"2010-03-11T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2010-03-11T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:34:59","slug":"rowan-williams-is-baffled-and-angry-at-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-is-baffled-and-angry-at-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams is baffled and angry at Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/node\/29305\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that despite believing Israel has a right to defend itself, he is &#8220;baffled and angry&#8221; at some of its methods.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rowan Williams spoke in conversation with Times editor James Harding in front of more than 200 people at a JC-sponsored event organised by the Board of Deputies on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 15 minutes into the 90- minute discussion, Mr Harding asked Dr Williams to face the &#8220;elephant in the room&#8221; and reveal his views on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state of Israel is a legitimate state,&#8221; the archbishop said. &#8220;It has a right to exist and right to defend itself. The very fact that Israel makes so much of its status as a democratic state leaves me baffled and sometimes angry at what seems like collusion with unauthorised parties. I want to hear a legal defence of settlements and I am yet to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless there is a way of representing the settlements as legitimate self-defence I remain very disturbed about that, along with many.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rowan would undoubtedly be much happier if Israel would engage Hamas \u2013 who don\u2019t seem to make Rowan angry at all &#8211; in Indaba sessions, holy listening and telling stories; then, at least <em>everyone <\/em>would be baffled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that despite believing Israel has a right to defend itself, he is &#8220;baffled and angry&#8221; at some of its methods. Dr Rowan Williams spoke in conversation with Times editor James Harding in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-is-baffled-and-angry-at-israel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}