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Cornerstone Issue 47 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS Issue 47- Winter 2007 1 ISSUE 47 • WINTER 2007 ORNERSTONE CA QUARTERLY PUBLICATION BY SABEEL ECUMENICAL LIBERATION THEOLOGY CENTER ...To bring good news to the poor by: Naim Ateek Photo: World Vision World Photo: he existence of poverty in the world is scandalous. In the midst of so much individual and national T wealth, and in the midst of so much waste of food and resources, the predicament of the poor grows more hope- less and desperate, and many of us do not even blush. The statistics are staggering. According to the World Bank, 1.1 billion people live on less than $1 a day and 2.7 billion live on less than $2 a day – a total of 3.8 billion in the world living in abject poverty. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes. In Israel-Palestine the situation of the poor is increasingly getting worse. According to the UNDP report on poverty in July 2007, 70% of households in the Gaza Strip live below the poverty line, while 56% of West Bank households and 19% of East Jerusalem IN THIS ISSUE households live below the poverty line. Some 42% of Justice and Poverty 1 households in the Gaza Strip live in extreme poverty and a by: Naim Ateek majority of Palestinians, 58%, reported a decline in their Christmas and Poverty 5 household incomes in the last six months. by: Robert Tobin Children are the future 6 Poverty is an evil that must be eradicated. If some people can by: Margo Sabella argue that in olden days the economic structures of life made Education as a Means to End Poverty 8 it impossible to eliminate poverty, we have no excuses today. by: Munir Fasheh We know that it is feasible to conquer poverty. Our world possesses enough resources to drastically reduce the causes of Psychological and Emotional Effects of Poverty 11 poverty and provide a life of comfort and dignity to the by: Viveca Hazboun disadvantaged and marginalized. Today it is possible to address Roots of Poverty in Palestine 13 the reasons for injustice and exploitation that are the major Two Separate Economies inside Israel 14 causes of poverty and to create just economic structures that by: Jafar Farrah can lend themselves to the reduction and even the elimination of poverty. The tragedy lies in the fact that our global and The Gaza Tragedy 16 Ramadan and Poverty 18 Continued >> by: Zahra Khalidi 2 Issue 47- Winter 2007 Photo: Karin Brown Photo: national leaders lack the will to do it. Can we imagine the billions of dollars the countries of the world, even the poorest among them, spend on the purchase of arms that kill and destroy people when millions of their own citizens are dying of disease and hunger? Even a fraction of such expenditures can alleviate the poverty condition of millions. From our perspective of faith, what is happening in the world today is tragic and insane. It is an evil that must be condemned and transformed. Apparently, many leaders are concerned about their national and personal security rather than human security-the to all the above threats. The continuous In fact, we have been witnessing for a health and wellbeing of their citizens. deterioration of their situation is the long time the presence of systemic In his book, Madness in the Multitude: result of war and armed conflict as well structures of injustice subtly imposed by Human Security and World Disorder, F.O. as systems of structural violence that have the Israeli government that have been Hampson (Oxford University been imposed by the Israeli government. intended to keep the Palestinians poor, Press,2002) outlines three different The number of people whose lives are humiliated, and suppressed. The understandings of human security. The threatened by structural forms of objectives are quite clear – to drive the first has to do with threats to the violence is immensely more than those Palestinians into total submission and fundamental human rights of who suffer from physical violence. The ultimately to push them out so that they individuals. The second is humanitarian Commission on Human Security states would abandon their land and emigrate. and has to do with threats that arise from that “More than 800,000 people a year In such circumstances, the greatest need armed conflict and war. The third is lose their lives to [physical] violence. of the Palestinians is justice. Justice takes concerned with sustainable human While approximately 2.8 billion suffer priority over charity. We must not allow development. The last examines a whole from poverty, ill health, illiteracy and charity to become a substitute for justice. gambit of issues that threaten the well other maladies.” (Atack p. 116) being of people and stem from structural Many people believe that the government violence. These are the issues we need to Therefore, in our Palestinian situation, of Israel has taken advantage and even be concerned about rather than the there is an intimate and direct link abused the good will of the international accumulation of destructive weaponry. between poverty and occupation, community that has been alleviating the (See also The Ethics of Peace and War by between poverty and the Israeli suffering and the economic hardships of Iain Atack, Edinburgh University Press, oppression of the Palestinians. So long the Palestinian people. The occupation 2005 p. 114). as the occupation persists, the is the responsibility of the government Palestinians will remain humanly of Israel. Yet, the main burden of When one looks at the Palestinian insecure and their poverty will worsen. humanitarian aid has been borne by situation, it is clear that the Israeli Israel is well aware of the deteriorating international relief agencies. In other occupation has subjected the Palestinians economic conditions of the Palestinians. words, the human responsibility has been Issue 47- Winter 2007 3 dumped on the shoulders of the Christ, that though he was rich, yet for dispossession, and oppression. It is our international community, seemingly your sake he became poor, so that by his calling as children of God to continue with no strings attached. While poverty you might become rich” (2 Cor. to champion justice and liberation of all international relief agencies have been 8:9). Such words reflect the love of God our brothers and sisters who are pouring millions of dollars in aid to the shown to us in Jesus Christ. It is only oppressed. In the community of faith, Palestinians, the government of Israel has genuine love that can express itself the needs of people must be met. When been adamantly refusing to implement through personal sacrifice for the sake there is genuine love, there is sharing and international law. At the same time, it of others. Commenting on this verse, when sharing takes place, people’s needs has been entrenching and consolidating Gustavo Gutierrez wrote: “This is the are met. its occupation of the Palestinian humiliation of Christ, his kenosis (Phil. territories by confiscating Palestinian 2:6-11). But he does not take on man’s In his book, Matthew and Empire, land, building settlements, and refining [& woman’s] sinful condition and its Warren Carter (Trinity Press its system of humiliation, control, and consequences to idealize it. It is rather International, 2001) summarizes Jesus’ impoverishment of the Palestinians. In because of love for and solidarity with social and theological challenge to the this sense, charity has inadvertently men [& women] who suffer in it. It is to Roman Empire. The community of faith contributed to the prolonging and redeem them from their sin and to enrich as described by Matthew does not belong cementing of the occupation. them with his poverty. It is to struggle to the Roman Empire but is shaped by against human selfishness and everything God’s empire and is, therefore, Moreover, the miserable conditions of that divides men [& women] and enables constituted not by wealth, gender, status, the Palestinians and their need for there to be rich and poor, possessors and or ethnicity, but by becoming children humanitarian aid have left the dispossessed, oppressors and oppressed.” of God, the heavenly father (Matthew impression in the minds of many people (A Theology of Liberation. Orbis Books, 5:9, 45). This community has a different in the world that the Palestinian problem 1988, p.300. See also pp. 291-302) ethics regarding riches and the poor. is basically an economic problem. People Community members serve God, not have forgotten that the core issue is The struggle must go on against poverty, wealth (6:24). The goal of their political and not economic. The existence is not exploitative Palestinians have been expelled and accumulation through oppressive taxes displaced and their political and and tributes. It is not conspicuous fundamental human rights have been consumption and display; rather, wealth denied. The aid they need from the is to be used to provide what people international community is justice—the need to live. A wealthy man is to divest restoration of their political rights to himself of his “great possessions,” and their own land and the establishment of give to the poor (19:21-22). Almsgiving their own sovereign state in Palestine. is a vital practice marked not by As Christians and as people of faith, we reciprocity and calculated self-interest need to recognize the priority of justice but the secret meeting of needs (6:1-4). as we continue to struggle against The needs of beggars are to be met; material poverty and work for its lending to those who want to borrow reduction and possible elimination. One circumvents increased wealth and of the beautiful verses in the New indebtedness while making resources Testament comes from the letter of Paul available (5:42).
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