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Sitting under a Fig Tree

Published: Jan. 26, 2009, 7:08 p.m.

In her Epiphany 2 sermon Denise Kelsall uses a fig tree against the side of the head of Israel and her US ally to condemn their disproportionate actions in Gaza.\n\n"Gaza is a concentration camp and that this is a shoa, the holocaust promised by Israel\u2019s Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai just last year. And the world sits by seemingly impotent and strangely muted against this ongoing tyranny, this horror, this immeasurable butchery, this \u2013 to use a Jewish word, this pogrom."\n\nFull text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=500&id=914.