Being Biblical?

I just finished listening to a piece on NPR (sorry, no link) on Israeli interference with expatriate Palestinians trying to return to the West Bank to help build a viable Palestinian economy. It is the usual story of double-dealing and bureaucratic foot dragging. As in all other areas, dealing with the Israeli state is a nightmare for Palestinians.

So it is especially interesting that as I was listening to this, the daily biblical reading from Sojourners arrived in my mailbox. Here it is in full:

When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

- Leviticus 19:33-34

To break one part of the law is to break it all.