BRIARCRIER
Jan.
10, 2014, Friday, 12:15, The Briar's Restaurant, Briarcliff Manor
Rotary Club.
TODAY
IN HISTORY
1870:
John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
MEETING
LEADER: President Anne Cargill
PLEDGE:
Anne Cargill PATRIOTIC SONG: Sy
Yuter PRAYER: Rev. George Higgins
HAPPY
THOUGHTS: Rick, that his son David could come to our
meeting; Ken, that his son was visiting him; Sy, had a flat that was
fixed by Briarcliff policeman Guzzo; Bob M., we have 29 dues-paying
members. Other happy thoughts but not correctly recorded.
ROTARIANS
PRESENT AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: 12 Rotarians present. Last Friday
meeting was cancelled due to snow; Kris still in India; Today's
speaker, Sarah Studley, cancelled due to early snow.
GUESTS:
Rev. George Higgins, Rachel's dad; Janet Gallegher, friend of Anne's;
David Zuckerman, son of Rick.
SPEAKER
AND SUBJECT: Dr. Sy Yuter on Mideast Update as substitute
speaker.
SUMMARY
OF TALK
Palestinian
leader Abu Mazen, at age 87, was very unlikely to compromise on the
extreme Palestinan position that the Palestnians should get back East
Jerusalem as their capital, that they should get all of the West Bank
which should be free of Jews, and that the descendents of the
refugees who left or were driven out in 1948 are entitled to return
to their original homes in pre-1967 Israel. The Israeli position,
rejected by the Palestinians, is that Israel should be recognized as
the Jewish state with the Israel Defense Forces remaining in the
Jordan Valley. That in early Christianity, at the Nicean Council
in 325 AD, when the Roman Emporer Constantine adopted
Christianity for the Roman Empire, the issue was the divinity of
Jesus Christ, with Arianists arguing that God was greater than his
virgin-born son Jesus, but Constantine had the council agree that
Jesus Christ was equal in divinity with God. That the Holy Spirit,
the third person of the Trinity -- God, his son Jesus
Christ and the Holy Spirit -- was considered a person equal
to God (so that monotheism was retained) but that the Jehovah
Witnesses believed that the Holy Spirit was equal to God's God-like
energy; and the Gospels of Mark, Mathew, Luke and John
were adopted by what became The Roman Catholic (Universal)
Church. That the Greek Orthodox Church split from the Roman
Catholic Church over the issue that the Bishop of Rome was the Pope
(father) of the Christian Church. That our Secretary of State, John
Kerry, believed (hopelessly in Sy's view) that there could be peace
between the Israelis and Palestinians and verbally proposed a partial
"framework agreement" to each side, mostly rejected by the
Palestinians, who would only settle for a final agreement ending the
conflict. But that the hatred of the Palestinians of the
Israelis, starting with the Palestinian children in elementary
school, blocked any end of the conflict.
On
Friday, January 17, the speaker, Colleen Wagner, will speak about a
VIP Special Needs Program of Pleasantville Rotary.
Elinor
Yuter, Reporter
Rachel
Leihbacher, Expediter
