In her Epiphany 2 sermon Denise Kelsall uses a fig tree against the side of the head of Israel and her US ally to condemn their disproportionate actions in Gaza. "Gaza is a concentration camp and that this is a shoa, the holocaust promised by Israel’s Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai just last year. And the world sits by seemingly impotent and strangely muted against this ongoing tyranny, this horror, this immeasurable butchery, this – to use a Jewish word, this pogrom." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=500&id=914.