From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Jerusalem's Christian And Muslim Clerics Support Uprising ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 5:07 AM Subject: Jerusalem's Christian And Muslim Clerics Support Uprising http://www.dailystar.com.lb/07_09_01/art8.htm Daily Star (Beirut) September 7, 2001 Jerusalem's Muslim and Christian clerics support uprising Cilina Nasser Special to The Daily Star The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem said Thursday that there was no room for further negotiations with Israel because the Jewish state did not want peace. "The intifada of the Palestinian people tells us that there is no choice left except to resist the Israeli occupation," the spokesman of the patriarchate, Archimandrite Theodosios Hanna, told The Daily Star on the sidelines of a meeting to prepare the first anniversary of the intifada. Hanna said he considered all accords signed between the Palestinians and Israel as "something of the past," adding that he was not the only one rejecting such agreements. "The intifada has proved that all the Palestinian people are against these accords," he said at the Commodore Hotel in Beirut. Hanna said a united Jerusalem should be the capital of a Palestinian state, and denounced Israel for last month's occupation of Orient House. He added that this would not affect the Palestinian determination to make Jerusalem their capital. "If the Israelis think that by taking Orient House from us they would obliterate the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, then I tell them that Orient House is only a building," he said. Jerusalem Mufti Akrama Sabri said that the isolation of the Palestinians in Jerusalem has tightened since the occupation of Orient House, for years the symbol of Palestinian aspirations for sovereignty over the disputed city. The mufti also said initimidation of non-governmental organiztion has curtailed services to the Arab population. "They closed organizations which provide services for the Palestinian people, such as the Prisoner House for the families of detainees in Israeli prisons, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Department for Geography and Maps," he told The Daily Star. Sabri said that although he had not issued a fatwa for a boycott of American products, he praised similar edicts issued by other prominent religious leaders. The mufti also said he could not play the role that former Mufti Haj Amin Husseini played in 1936 during the Palestinian revolt against the British Mandate. "In 1936, there was no Palestinian Authority and no Palestinian public institutions. This was why the mufti had a major role in the revolt," he said. "What I do for the uprising now is to give it support." Hanna attacked the US for allying with Israel, and pro-Israel Christian groups, saying that "those who support Israel and regard themselves as Christians should know that they are not. "Christianity advocates justice, while they are advocating an occupying power which is Israel," he said. Jerusalem's archimandrite also said establishing a media strategy was necessary to support the uprising. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
