We refuse to be enemies
Catherine James considers questions raised by a recent event in Wales
When we go to a talk on Palestine, we are prepared to hear of the stonings, the insults, the injustice, the theft of land, the denial of water, the cutting down of olive trees, the destruction of Palestinian houses and the restrictions on travel. At a recent Meeting of Friends in Wales we sat in the comfortable church hall in Llanidloes, having had our cups of tea, turned on taps without thought and travelled freely to the Meeting. Helen Lewis and John Butler, who have recently been again to Palestine, told us of the constant disruption of life for the Palestinians, but also of their resilience, of the faith that sustains so many of them under the oppression. From a man whose livelihood has been removed by the building of the wall we heard: ‘God does not put us on this earth except to do good to others.’
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