As Adelphi Friends Meeting, we pray that this lengthy conflict be ended quickly in a way that insures freedom, safety, and justice for all. Let us seek paths to work for peace with the tools available to us.
A just and lasting peace would insure that all cultural and religious identities are respected with equitable geographic and economic resources.
Let us seek paths to work for peace, to act in faith and love, with persistence, patience, and courage. We ask everyone, including those in power, to learn from and work with the peacebuilders, who have labored long and hard. May they lead us all in creating an enduring peace built on justice and reconciliation that provides safety, sovereignty, and a future free of war as Palestinians, Israelis and all people of the region become partners pursuing the sacred goal of Peace.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation has empowered faith-rooted activists to become effective lobbyists for peace. Advocacy Teams across the country meet repeatedly with their representatives, armed with FCNL’s trainings on strategic persuasion.
We grieve for the loss of life and suffering witnessed in Israel/Palestine on both sides. We value the lives of all people equally. In keeping with our Quaker Peace Testimony, we maintain that WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER to ending a conflict that has endured for more than 100 years.
We call on the US government to end its military aid of the Israeli government and to fully restore UNRWA funding to aid Palestinians. The US government must stop sending the Israeli military more weapon
As members of Strawberry Creek Friends Meeting (Quakers) in Berkeley, California, and in keeping with our historic peace testimony, we are horrified by the killing on all sides in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, and the larger Middle East. We support a lasting ceasefire, together with peaceful action by the United States and other world power, to bring about lasting peace, justice, and freedom.
Friends feel a responsibility to act on the immense suffering in Gaza, as well as the ongoing violence in the West Bank. All the peoples of Israel and Palestine deserve to live in peace.
The Salt Lake Quakers (Salt Lake Monthly Meeting) calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel by both sides, a return of the hostages, and a restoration of food, water, fuel and medical care to Gaza. The urgency and humanitarian need for this action cannot be overstated.
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