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Michael McRay has written a heartfelt personal account about his two month internship with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron, West Bank. CPT was born in the 1980's in response to Ron Sider's challenge for Christians to risk everything in pursuit of peace. In the past 30+ years, CPT has recruited local and international peacemakers to resist violence and occupation by means of nonviolence in many places in the globe, such as Iraq, Columbia, Africa and of course, Palestine.

Drawing on his personal journey working as a CPTer in Hebron, McRay invites readers to experience the tension and conflict taking place in the occupied West Bank. He shows us how important the works of international peacemakers in Hebron.

But the work of nonviolence resisting the Israeli brutal occupation against the Palestinians is filled with pains and frustrations. McRay observes honestly: "There is no formula for nonviolence. No "best approach" or "This is guaranteed to work" (p. 42). At best, nonviolence peacemaking is "guesswork" particularly in view of the fluidity of the occupied Palestine. In fact, the reality is that "change was not the point. The point was resistance. The point was to remind Israel that the Palestinian people are still here" (p. 59).

Anyone who has traveled in the occupied West Bank and has listened attentively to the agonizing stories of Palestinians no doubt can appreciate McRay's brutal honesty about the dire state of affairs in Palestine under Israeli cruel occupations: the separation wall that cuts through the Palestinian lands, destroying the very livelihood of the Palestinians; the daily military oppression and humiliation against the unarmed Palestinians; the Israeli settlers' constant harassment, protected by the IDF; the Israel lobby that dictates the US foreign policy; the oft-ignored bias permeated in the Western pro-Israel media and so on.

People in the West are often exposed to the Israeli side of the story. The Palestinian side of the conflict is rarely known. What sets this book apart from many other books written on this subject is McRay's very personal experience as CPT in Hebron. McRay's journey will definitely open one's eyes to see the evil of Israeli occupation in Palestine. The author's personal account should be a must-read to Christians, who are pro-Israel Zionists, whether consciously or subconsciously.

Yet this book is not simply an eye-opening experience in the occupied Palestine, McRay lays bare his spiritual journey in struggling how to practice the Christian faith in a violent world. By living with the Palestinians under occupation, McRay struggled painful the nonviolence "third way" preached and practiced by Jesus himself.

It seems that the harsh reality of Israeli military occupation will remain. But McRay still gives a ray of hope and calls Christians to build peace. Oscar Romero's quote is aptly quoted by McRay: "We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own." This book does not merely open one's world to the "other" side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it will challenge Christian readers to engage the oft-violent world with Jesus' third way.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has the desire to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even one is not a Christian, one will definitely gain much insight into Jesus' distinctive approach to resist violence.


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Letters from Apartheid Street A Christian Peacemaker in Occupied Palestine Michael T McRay 9781620326251 Books Reviews

Excellent insight into what actually happens on a daily basis between the many different groups who live in Israel and Palestine. Truthful and enlightening.
This is one of the most amazing books I've read in a very long time. The way the author writes is perfectly incredible. With each chapter, the reader can almost picture himself standing in the spot the author is describing and feeling the emotions everyone in the story is feeling. The entire read was very eye opening for someone who has barely been outside the southern states of America. If the authors views on peace, forgiveness and reconciliation don't at the very least make your eyes swell with tears, you have no heart.
Tells the story of day-to-day incidents and confrontations that make living in Hebron in the twenty-first Century so incredibly challenging.
This was a wonderful read. McRay's narratives of his experiences working with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron were a so descriptive, you might as well have been walking those occupied streets alongside him. I appreciated his theological reflection of the experience and his call to the readers for action. It is a very thoughtful and engaging book.
Michael McRay not only visited Israel and spoke with Palestinian families living under occupation, he marinated in the day to day, moment to moment struggles of living in divided Hebron. He shed tears with mothers whose sons were dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night but the also fought daily against the impulse to hate, to revile and to demonize the soldiers at whose hands so many noses were broken and eyes made black and blue. The boldness of his narrative comes not from his willingness to stand beside the oppressed but from his steadfast commitment that the oppressor is a victim of their own oppression. The everpresent tension between a stinging awareness of "white male priviledge" and a vow to fight for the oppressed sets the stage for a vulnerable, honest exploration of an experience that moves the reader beyond taking sides, beyond rationalization and beyond a pursuit of a single narrative to a place where the critical, daily, difficult work of peacebuilding can begin to be understood.
Michael has taken Christ's beatitude "Blessed are the Peacemakers" so seriously that he recently spent three months in Hebron with the Christian Peacemaking Team. The Israeli soldiers and settlers have not dealt kindly with the Palestinians as they have tried to persuade them to leave their homes and shops in Hebron. Nor did they behave kindly toward the CPT members who monitored the situation. Michael made an effort toward good relationships with the Israeli soldiers. A few responded well and some did not, even putting the CPT members at risk of arrest. Michael McRay writes of his experiences with compassion and hope even in the face of seemingly hopeless situations. I found his Letters very moving and thought provoking. Letters from Apartheid Street A Christian Peacemaker in Occupied Palestine Michael McRay is a candidate for Masters in Philosophy Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation at Trinity in Belfast, Ireland.
Michael McRay has written a heartfelt personal account about his two month internship with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron, West Bank. CPT was born in the 1980's in response to Ron Sider's challenge for Christians to risk everything in pursuit of peace. In the past 30+ years, CPT has recruited local and international peacemakers to resist violence and occupation by means of nonviolence in many places in the globe, such as Iraq, Columbia, Africa and of course, Palestine.

Drawing on his personal journey working as a CPTer in Hebron, McRay invites readers to experience the tension and conflict taking place in the occupied West Bank. He shows us how important the works of international peacemakers in Hebron.

But the work of nonviolence resisting the Israeli brutal occupation against the Palestinians is filled with pains and frustrations. McRay observes honestly "There is no formula for nonviolence. No "best approach" or "This is guaranteed to work" (p. 42). At best, nonviolence peacemaking is "guesswork" particularly in view of the fluidity of the occupied Palestine. In fact, the reality is that "change was not the point. The point was resistance. The point was to remind Israel that the Palestinian people are still here" (p. 59).

Anyone who has traveled in the occupied West Bank and has listened attentively to the agonizing stories of Palestinians no doubt can appreciate McRay's brutal honesty about the dire state of affairs in Palestine under Israeli cruel occupations the separation wall that cuts through the Palestinian lands, destroying the very livelihood of the Palestinians; the daily military oppression and humiliation against the unarmed Palestinians; the Israeli settlers' constant harassment, protected by the IDF; the Israel lobby that dictates the US foreign policy; the oft-ignored bias permeated in the Western pro-Israel media and so on.

People in the West are often exposed to the Israeli side of the story. The Palestinian side of the conflict is rarely known. What sets this book apart from many other books written on this subject is McRay's very personal experience as CPT in Hebron. McRay's journey will definitely open one's eyes to see the evil of Israeli occupation in Palestine. The author's personal account should be a must-read to Christians, who are pro-Israel Zionists, whether consciously or subconsciously.

Yet this book is not simply an eye-opening experience in the occupied Palestine, McRay lays bare his spiritual journey in struggling how to practice the Christian faith in a violent world. By living with the Palestinians under occupation, McRay struggled painful the nonviolence "third way" preached and practiced by Jesus himself.

It seems that the harsh reality of Israeli military occupation will remain. But McRay still gives a ray of hope and calls Christians to build peace. Oscar Romero's quote is aptly quoted by McRay "We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own." This book does not merely open one's world to the "other" side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it will challenge Christian readers to engage the oft-violent world with Jesus' third way.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has the desire to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even one is not a Christian, one will definitely gain much insight into Jesus' distinctive approach to resist violence.