Recognizing Israel, Recognizing Palestine: Three Months with a Peace Team in the West Bank and Gaza
Do you wish to understand more about the complexities of the Middle East?
Place: St. Dominic Church Social Hall in Northfield
Speaker: Rev. David Smith, founding director of the Justice and Peace program at the University of St Thomas. Rev. Smith has taught and studied in Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East on the topics of poverty, development, and how various religions deal with issues of Justice and Peace. With the Michigan Peace Team (www.michiganpeaceteam.org) he spent July 2005 and three months from October 2007 into January 2008 in the West Bank and Gaza.
Rev. Smith's presentation is sponsored by Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel, an ecumenical Northfield peace group, with representative from 7 Northfield churches.
His presentation is free and open to the public.
