Reverend Dr. George Mason was leading the group as part of an interfaith dialogue initiative.
Reverend Dr. George Mason was in the city of Jerusalem when the Hamas attacks began over the weekend.
Texas Standard was able to speak with Mason after he and his group had evacuated Jerusalem for a town near the Sea of Galilee trying to find safer ground and a way home. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.Exhausted, to be honest. Things were pretty tense over here, and it’s been challenging to be with the group and have uncertain plans. But, you know, this is an opportunity for us to practice our faith. So we’re trying to find peace in the midst of all the chaos.
Did you find yourself or your group in the direct line of fire? Were rockets falling near or around? And, of course, it seemed that Hamas wanted to incite others to join the fight wherever they were. But it was not forthcoming, it seemed, and it was still localized, mostly in the south. It was almost like COVID on the one hand. But really it was more like the shock of 9/11 that many of us experienced years ago in the U.S. So people were just walking around in a stupor. Nobody knew what to do, whether they were supposed to try to resume normal life or stay in and just grieve and watch the news. It’s just everything’s changed and no one knows exactly what to do over here.Well, generally speaking, the Tel Aviv airport is too close to the conflict at this point.
I mean, here’s the thing: The group was here not just as a spiritual pilgrimage for their own sakes, but we were here actually deliberately to have a dual narrative tour where we were going to be talking to people on the Palestinian and Israeli sides of things and talking especially with people who are trying to live together and to create conditions for when the occupation ends and when there’s an opportunity for a new status quo in Palestine, in Israel.
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