It’s easy to see why: first, it’s a Trump proposal and the ACoC loathes Trump, second the ACoC is biased against Israel almost to the point of being anti-Semitic.
If only the primate were as interested in the salvation of souls as she is in hating Trump, perhaps fewer souls would be fleeing her church.
From here
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau:
Greetings to you from The Anglican Church of Canada.
I write today to urge Canada to maintain a principled policy position in accordance with international law, and to strongly, publicly oppose President Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan for Israel and Palestine announced January 28th, 2020. Your confirmation in 2017 that Canada’s embassy in Israel will remain in Tel Aviv, affirming the open, international status of Jerusalem as a city of two peoples and three faiths, and your 2019 vote at the UN General Assembly affirming the right of the Palestinian People to self-determination, clearly demonstrate Canada’s commitment to principled leadership.
We commend to you the spirit of the Statement of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Holy Land Churches on January 30, 2020, on the “Deal of the Century”, urging instead “a just and lasting peace in the Middle East based on the international legitimacy of relevant UN resolutions, and in a manner that guarantees security, peace, freedom and dignity to all of the peoples of the region.”
We lament with global and Canadian ecumenical partners that the Trump administration’s plan is far from being a “win-win” for Israelis and Palestinians. Rather, we recognize, with many others including Canada, peace with justice will not come by discounting or ignoring Palestinian rights and aspirations. For solutions to be based upon equality, human rights and self-determination for all, the occupation of Palestinian lands must first end and Palestinians be meaningfully involved in planning processes from the beginning.
In 2013, The Anglican Church of Canada General Synod adopted a resolution calling on our church to support the goal of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East. The resolution recognizes the legitimate aspirations, rights and needs of both Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace, with dignity within sovereign and secure borders. It condemns the use of violence of all kinds, especially against civilians, calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, and upon Israel, as the occupying power, to respect the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the transfer and settlement of its own citizens in the occupied territories.
The Anglican Church of Canada commends your “commitment to a safe and secure homeland for the Jewish people, and to a lasting peace between all peoples in the Middle East”. We pray with the Holy Land Patriarchs and Heads of Churches that, for their part, all Palestinian political parties, factions and leaders end their internal conflicts and adopt a unified stand towards state building based on plurality and democratic values.
With this letter comes the assurance of our respect for your leadership and prayers for you and the Government of Canada. I look forward to supporting Canada’s efforts with other international leaders in denouncing the notion that President Trump’s “Peace Plan for the Middle East” offers a framework through which peace could be negotiated.
Yours in Christ,
The Most Reverend Linda C. Nicholls
Archbishop and Primate
This letter is nonsense in my view. The masters of Palestine have had 70 years in which to enter into a peaceful relationship with Israel. Time to move on, which is what the new peace plan attempts to do. The letter is also fawning and obsequies in the direction of Mr Trudeau. If I were a member of the A C of C I would not welcome this silly epistle.
I am happy to see that Ms. Nicholls is driving more people out of the Anglican church. Those who support Israel will be disgusted by this letter, relying as it does on error and propoganda. Not to mention what business any of this is of Justin Trudeau. When Arabs stop teaching their children to hate Jews, there may be a chance for peace. Otherwise, it’s all moot.
Political power is a poor substitute for spiritual power.
A “principled policy position in accordance with international law”, as then Archbishop William Temple urged the British Government in vain, would have upheld both the letter and spirit of the Balfour Declaration (November 2,1917); included at the San Remo Conference on April 25,1920, which issued in the League of Nations Mandate for ‘Palestine’ by the Treaty of Lausanne,1924;
one which both then and since remains an outstanding debt of honour in the ledger of international law.
Nor did the daughter Anglican Church in Canada, along with all other denominations, acquit themselves before and during the Shoah, an account carefully recounted in Chaim Genzi’s ‘The Canadian Churches Silence During The Holocaust’ (2002).
Since the Shoah,1930+1945, that execrable silence has turned into unrelenting voices emanating from the World Council of Churches and the Vatican:voices devoid of Biblical, historical, legal and moral knowledge and authority; for just as with other anti-Scriptural issues before the Churches, their inadequate to anti-Semitic positions invoke the just indictment of Chaim Weizmann upon Britain’s betrayal of Balfour with the May 17,1939, White Paper, whereby Balfour was “sacrificed on the altar of appeasement” (* Walter Laqueur, ‘A History of Zionism’ 1976):
“experts in trickery and pretended righteousness”.
+ Matthew ch. 25.
So the Anglican church of Canada is headed by yet another wanna be politician. Why am I not surprised?
So long as this kind of behavior continues in the leadership of the AcoC it will continue to decline as more and more people of the few that remain get fed up with this nonsense. Soon only the radical left wing nuts will be left. And these people will not contribute their own money to anything and so they will soon be asking the government for taxpayer funded support.