Bethlehem Pastor: History will hold you accountable over Gaza genocide

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Source: Own Jones

This morning, Rev Munther Isaac, Senior Pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bethlehem (who delivered a powerful message about Israel's onslaught on Gaza on Christmas Eve entitled: 'Nativity Under the Rubble - see link below) gave an interview to journalist Owen Jones, in which he speaks about Western complicity in Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza - including those who remain silent - and the refusal to describe Israel's actions for what they are.

At the end of the interview Rev Munther says: "The magnitude of the genocide, the killing is so huge it demands what I'm going to say.

"This is the time to act. This is the time to speak. History will ask 'where were you when this was happening in Gaza? When children were killed in such such unprecidented levels that we haven't seen in recent history. Where were you?'

"And If the answer is 'we were praying for peace' - this is the kind of soft spirituality that I've been challenging and many of us have been challenging, because it gives the cover that 'we're peaceful, we're good people we pray for both sides equally.' ... And I think true peacemaking demands that we take sides. Demands that we speak truth to power and call things by their name.

"This is the time to act and to speak and to put pressure. This is the time to act by our moral and ethical standards to defend the oppressed..and to be thirsty even. Jesus said 'Blessed are those who are thirst, those who hungry for righteousness'...

"Right now the situation in Gaza is beyond horrible. It's literally hell on earth. And I as I think many people would ask where was God? Me as a pastor I would continue to ask where was the Church?'"

Watch today's interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7tAxR5mzUk&t=24s

See Rev Munther's Christmas sermon Nativity Under the Rubble here: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/48780