According to the newspaper, “the speakers emphasized that Zionist Christianity is not connected to Christianity in any way.”
The leading Palestinian Authority daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, carried a report this week (July 2, 2003) on a recent three-day conference in the city of Bethlehem, which focused, in part on Christian Zionism in America. According to the newspaper, “the speakers emphasized that Zionist Christianity is not connected to Christianity in any way.”
Furthermore, al-Hayat al-Jadida reports: In their remarks at the conference, “Archbishop Munib Yunan, Dr. Manuel Chassasian, and Father Marun Laham agreed unanimously that those involved with Zionist Christianity should be expunged, by establishing committees from the local and Middle Eastern Churches, for the purpose of conducting conferences in America, where there are around fifty million of them [Christian Zionists]. The speakers stated that they [Christian Zionists] are opposed to the Road Map and are against the Palestinian rights.”
The article also referred to an analogy made between Jesus and the Arab refugees seeking immigration to Israel: “Conference President Doctor Jarris Khouri’s lecture included a link between the return of Messiah from Egypt to Palestine, a return that bears a meaning of the return of peace, rights, justice and freedom, and the return of the [Palestinian] refugees that bears the same meaning and consequences. Khouri stressed that without this there will not be a just peace.”
[Palestinian Media Watch provided the English translation of the article.]
The leading Palestinian Authority daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, carried a report this week (July 2, 2003) on a recent three-day conference in the city of Bethlehem, which focused, in part on Christian Zionism in America. According to the newspaper, “the speakers emphasized that Zionist Christianity is not connected to Christianity in any way.”
Furthermore, al-Hayat al-Jadida reports: In their remarks at the conference, “Archbishop Munib Yunan, Dr. Manuel Chassasian, and Father Marun Laham agreed unanimously that those involved with Zionist Christianity should be expunged, by establishing committees from the local and Middle Eastern Churches, for the purpose of conducting conferences in America, where there are around fifty million of them [Christian Zionists]. The speakers stated that they [Christian Zionists] are opposed to the Road Map and are against the Palestinian rights.”
The article also referred to an analogy made between Jesus and the Arab refugees seeking immigration to Israel: “Conference President Doctor Jarris Khouri’s lecture included a link between the return of Messiah from Egypt to Palestine, a return that bears a meaning of the return of peace, rights, justice and freedom, and the return of the [Palestinian] refugees that bears the same meaning and consequences. Khouri stressed that without this there will not be a just peace.”
[Palestinian Media Watch provided the English translation of the article.]