{"id":1673,"date":"2012-12-14T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2012-12-14T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:31:48","slug":"the-writing-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/the-writing-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing on the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/12\/this-land-is-our-land.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1674\" style=\"margin-left: 15px;margin-right: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/12\/this-land-is-our-land.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/12\/this-land-is-our-land.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/12\/this-land-is-our-land-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>From Pastor Fred Strickert of the English-speaking Redeemer Lutheran Church in Jerusalem comes <a href=\"http:\/\/walkinjerusalem.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/the-writing-on-wall.html\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post, the Writing on the Wall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A report &#8220;Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds,&#8221; was recently released by\u00a0the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The report sees more hostile divisions\u00a0within Israeli society between\u00a0views of openness and exclusion.\u00a0 It states, &#8220;At home Israel faces increasing social and political divisions between those who still cherish a vision&#8221; expressed by its 1948 founders versus &#8220;the growing demographic weight of the religiously conservative Haredim and settler movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While concerns about the influence of fundamentalism and extremism in the Muslim world is a major topic in the Western Media&#8211;and of which we are very much aware and concerned&#8211;the following\u00a0are concerns that confront us daily in the local Israeli press, as can be seen in a selection of <em>Haaretz<\/em> photos below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_1675\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/12\/LehavaHiresJewsOnly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1675\" class=\"wp-image-1675 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/12\/LehavaHiresJewsOnly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in West Jerusalem says &#8220;Lehava only hires Jewish Workers.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pastor Strickert takes us from photos wiping out Arab names on signs, to Death to Arab graffiti to a sign posted on the LWF Augusta Victoria property on the Mt. of Olives announcing that people have 60 days to comment on plans that are being fast-tracked to build an eight-story IDF college right next to Augusta Victoria in East Jerusalem.\u00a0 Leaders of the Mt. of Olives Housing Project, which will serve the community by providing affordable housing, a community center, an elderly center and a sports complex, have been trying for years to get\u00a0authorization and\u00a0building permits to build their project, for which they already have significant funds raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pastor Fred Strickert of the English-speaking Redeemer Lutheran Church in Jerusalem comes a blog post, the Writing on the Wall: A report &#8220;Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds,&#8221; was recently released by\u00a0the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 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