Sami Awad, "So be good for goodness sake..." Never Give Up, December 23, 2008.

[Sami Awad is a non-violent Christian activist living in Bethlehem. -jlt]


This past Friday [December 19] Santa Clause stood in solidarity with and attempted to go where fewer and fewer Palestinians are able to go, their own farm lands in the southern hills of the Beautiful little town called Bethlehem. For the second year in a row, taking time away from his main work in this very busy season, Santa decided to come to Bethlehem to support the farmers in reaching their land in order to maintain it and plant it… For the second year in a row (as happens every week when Santa is not there), the Israeli soldiers barricaded and prevented the villagers from reaching their land.

...it is time for Christians all over the world to wake up...

Barbed wires were placed on the main road leading to the farming lands and soldiers with heavy guns stood in a line pouting the whole time at the Palestinian farmers, their international and Israeli friends, and of course… Santa…

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Dr. Richard Elam, "The Christmas truce of 1914," Cleburn Times-Review, December 24, 2006.

In 2006, peace on earth is as elusive as ever as small wars occur regularly and expand into bigger conflicts. Territorial “imperatives,” aggressive tendencies and desire for plunder always interfere with an ability to sustain a lasting peace. Wars are such a regular routine for humanity that the European lack of a continent-wide conflagration between the final exile of Napoleon in 1815 and the beginnings of the Great War (World War I) in 1914 is sometimes referred to as the “hundred year’s peace.”

In the first two centuries after the birth of Christ, Roman power and will kept the Mediterranean world in a state of relative calm known as the “Pax Romana.” Even there, however, small conflicts occurred regularly on the fringes of the empire. Some modern historians use a similar phrase, “pax Americana,” to refer to the lack of a major world conflict as due to American power and will. The United States, like Rome, has had to deal with smaller wars during that time.

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