Hugh Hewitt takes exception to his fellow Presbyterians actions against israel

http://www.hughhewitt.com/

There are many Presbyterians who understand how foolish, unjust and dangerous is the "divestment" movement within the PCUSA. Unlike Netanyahu, we have a few options other than resignation. The Louisville church bureaucrats and a few radicals in the congregations have often triggered backlashes in the past, and this controversy is likely to move to that stage now that the actual "divestment" appears to be underway.

Here are two bios of the 5: Notice a "pattern"?

http://www.pcusa.org/mrti/bio-hylkema.htm: Note her outreach to Arab American community

http://www.pcusa.org/worldwide/middleeast.htm#makari

 

Victor E. Makari, Ph.D., serves on the General Assembly staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as coordinator for the Office of the Middle East and Europe. Before June 2000 he was the area coordinator for the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. Makari is a native of Egypt and has been a minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) since 1966. Since that time he has been significantly involved in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and cooperation, both domestically and internationally.				Victor Makari, Ph.D., Area Coordinator for Europe and the Middle East
	Prior to his service on the national staff in 1990, Makari served for 25 years in three pastorates, as minister of education, associate minister, and senior minister, in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and in Columbus, Ohio, respectively. While in the pastorate he was elected (from 1974 through 1983) as a member (for three three-year terms) and as president (for three one-year terms) of the Program Agency Board, an antecedent of the divisions of the current General Assembly Council. Makari studied at Assiut American College in Assiut, Egypt, and the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (B.Th., 1959). In the United States he pursued postgraduate studies at Princeton Seminary (M.Div.,1961-64), Columbia Seminary (Th.M., 1965), and McCormick Seminary (special graduate studies in1965), and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (special studies, Fall 1965). He further studied at Temple University (M.A., 1972, and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 1976).

Here is the "official" announcement of the PCUSA policy. Background biographies of the five member committee steering this disastrous course are here, here, here, and here.

This "phased divestment" policy is quite obviously a charade, an anti-Israel policy dressed up in the sophistry of Divinity School humbug. The majority of Presbyterians reject this absurd policy, and I suspect now that it has moved beyond the committee endless talking phase, a number of congregations will act quickly to demand of their elders a response that reflects that commitment to Israel.