Hanna: No peace without Jerusalem
[ 08/05/2009 - 05:24 PM ]
AMMAN, (PIC)-- The prominent Palestinian Christian figure archimandrite Atallah Hanna has called on the Arab countries to immediately mobilize to save the occupied city of Jerusalem of the persistent Israeli activities to judaize it, stressing that there will be no peace in the region till Jerusalem is returned to the Palestinians.
The archimandrite's call was made during a speech in the anti-racism and anti-Zionism society in Jordan Wednesday where he also underlined that the Palestinian Christians would hand the Pope of the Vatican a clear message during his visit to occupied Palestine that Palestinian people were and would remain adherent to Jerusalem and that they are against any Israeli settlement measures in it.
He also expressed hope that the Pope would be able to see for himself the suffering of the Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation, underling that returning the occupied city to the Arabs would ensure freedom of religion in the holy city.
"There will be no [Palestinian] state without Jerusalem, and Jerusalem wouldn’t be free without the return of the Palestinian refugees to their home land, and this right we should adopt and defend", Hanna pointed out.
He added that although Palestine witnessed many Nakbas (catastrophes); yet, he added, the human tragedy in Gaza was beyond all catastrophes, underscoring that Zionism was the worst form of racism there is "because racism was embodied in the Zionist ideology".
Moreover, Hanna criticized the Arab condition, describing it as "unhealthy", stressing that the big challenges before the Arab Ummah calls on it to unite in order to confront the Dangers that engulf it.
Finally, Hanna called on the people not to be disappointed or surrender, asserting that the Palestinian issue is a just issue and it would prevail. He also called on them not to be deceived by the Israeli allegations of seeking peace, underscoring that the Israelis want the Arabs to surrender, and that they weren’t interested in making peace with the Palestinians at all.
[ 08/05/2009 - 05:24 PM ]
AMMAN, (PIC)-- The prominent Palestinian Christian figure archimandrite Atallah Hanna has called on the Arab countries to immediately mobilize to save the occupied city of Jerusalem of the persistent Israeli activities to judaize it, stressing that there will be no peace in the region till Jerusalem is returned to the Palestinians.
The archimandrite's call was made during a speech in the anti-racism and anti-Zionism society in Jordan Wednesday where he also underlined that the Palestinian Christians would hand the Pope of the Vatican a clear message during his visit to occupied Palestine that Palestinian people were and would remain adherent to Jerusalem and that they are against any Israeli settlement measures in it.
He also expressed hope that the Pope would be able to see for himself the suffering of the Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation, underling that returning the occupied city to the Arabs would ensure freedom of religion in the holy city.
"There will be no [Palestinian] state without Jerusalem, and Jerusalem wouldn’t be free without the return of the Palestinian refugees to their home land, and this right we should adopt and defend", Hanna pointed out.
He added that although Palestine witnessed many Nakbas (catastrophes); yet, he added, the human tragedy in Gaza was beyond all catastrophes, underscoring that Zionism was the worst form of racism there is "because racism was embodied in the Zionist ideology".
Moreover, Hanna criticized the Arab condition, describing it as "unhealthy", stressing that the big challenges before the Arab Ummah calls on it to unite in order to confront the Dangers that engulf it.
Finally, Hanna called on the people not to be disappointed or surrender, asserting that the Palestinian issue is a just issue and it would prevail. He also called on them not to be deceived by the Israeli allegations of seeking peace, underscoring that the Israelis want the Arabs to surrender, and that they weren’t interested in making peace with the Palestinians at all.
Salah exposes new Zionist plans to Judaize Jerusalem
[ 07/05/2009 - 10:00 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The prominent Muslim leader in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands Shiekh Raed Salah has exposed on Thursday an Israeli scheme prepared and crystallized by five Israeli ministries, which targets the Muslim identity of Jerusalem.
In a press conference he held in the city's suburb of Sheikh Jarrah, Salah asserted, "There is a broad Zionist scheme being prepared with the aim to hit the social fabric in Sheikh Jarrah suburb, Wadi Al-Joz, and Sawwana with the aim to cordon the old city, and to expand 32 settlement colonies around the Aqsa Mosque in preparation to ultimately control it".
He also disclosed that the city's Jewish municipal administration started to survey Palestinian homes in the occupied city to find out any extension in the building permits in order to justify the demolition of that extension or even of reducing the entire house to rubbles.
He described numbers of the Palestinian homes that are threatened with demolition in Jerusalem as "horrifying", adding that the municipal engineers were preparing new plans to build more Jewish settlements on the ruins of the Palestinian homes.
Moreover, Salah pointed out that a Jewish organization interested in constructing more Jewish colonies in the city had offered a Palestinian Jerusalemite $ 600,000 for every square meter of his real estate.
"International Zionism, using its different arms, is working hard to achieve its objectives in the holy city amidst the passive and unexplainable silence," Salah said.
Tens of Palestinian homes in the occupied city were demolished recently under false Israeli allegations, turning hundreds of Palestinian Jerusalemite families homeless. The IOA, however, insisted on pursuing the demolition policy despite calls from the UN to halt them.
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