World Council of Churches urges stop to settlements, but Isreal moving ahead: Israeli policy "very hard to understand"
The World Council of Churches has called on the Israeli government to “implement an open-ended freeze” on all settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem “in preparation for negotiating peace in good faith” in the region.
“Even as Israel’s own right to exist evokes sympathy and solidarity around the world, its policies of expansion and annexation generate dismay or hostility,” asserted the WCC’s Central Committee, its main governing body, at a closing session September 2 in Geneva.