As a Palestinian Christian organization, Sabeel rejects armed resistance however legitimate and justified it might be. Nonviolence remains the most effective strategy at this time in Palestine.

The existence of Hamas is used by Israel to justify the siege of Gaza and also the paralysis of peace talks. Hamas has become a convenient excuse for indefinite occupation. It may well be time to broach the taboo subject of talking to Hamas and seek a way of bringing them into the peace conversation. Certainly, there can be no peace without Hamas and its followers participating in some way or another.

Friends of Sabeel North America joins hundreds of religious leaders across the United States to call for an end to Israel’s unethical and immoral treatment of deceased Palestinians.

In early September, I accompanied an Iraqi friend to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in Amman, Jordan to help register him officially as a refugee. There was a G4S logo on the gate attendant’s shirt. And G4S all over the compound. Why is the British company that serves Israeli prisons a UN contractor?