{"id":8965,"date":"2010-06-11T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2010-06-11T06:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:03:30","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-takes-another-pot-shot-at-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-takes-another-pot-shot-at-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada takes another pot shot at Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada rarely passes over a chance to excoriate Israel. Had the Turkish \u201crelief vessel\u201d not been thug infested, they would have been escorted to shore and the IDF would have assisted in unloading the supplies. As it was, the IDF, unsurprisingly, defended themselves<\/a> against a bunch of murderous \u201cpeace activists\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just as well that there are few left that give a hoot what the ACoC thinks about Israel <\/a> – or, indeed, anything else.<\/p>\n

The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada went on record expressing \u201cdeep concern\u201d regarding the interception by Israeli Defence Forces of relief ships from Turkey and Ireland. The ships were attempting to disrupt the Israeli blockade of Palestinian ports to deliver relief supplies to Gaza.<\/p>\n

Nine people were killed May 31 after the Israelis boarded ships heading toward Gaza. On June 4, an Irish Gaza-bound aid ship was forced to head towards the Israeli port of Ashdod instead.<\/p>\n

The synod passed the motion by a show of hands after a short debate. \u201cIt\u2019s not for us to declare to the nation of Israel how to defend themselves,\u201d said David Parson from the diocese of the Arctic.<\/p>\n

Bishop Dennis Drainville of Quebec argued that the synod was within its rights to object to what he considered an unjustified action. He quoted Martin Luther King as saying that \u201cinjustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The motion asks the General Secretary to communicate to the Prime Minister and government of Canada its concern and view that a full international inquiry into the incidents is necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada rarely passes over a chance to excoriate Israel. Had the Turkish \u201crelief vessel\u201d not been thug infested, they would have been escorted to shore and the IDF would have assisted in unloading the supplies. As … Continue reading →<\/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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[2032,2160,2180],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gs2010-2","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-gs2010-2","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","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=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}