This is a Holy Week in which attention to suffering on Calvary is being drawn away to suffering, injustices and destruction miles away in Gaza and the West Bank. In his pastoral letter, the Rev. Hosam Naoum wrote both of a world enslaved by selfishness and deeply engrained animosities and of the need to work towards justice based on divine grace and righteousness. The war between Israelis and their Arab neighbors precede the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.