Posted on 09/30/2011 5:54:43 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
JERUSALEM — Salim Manarious, a retired former school headmaster, believes there will be a sovereign Palestinian state in his lifetime.
“I believe it because I’m a Palestinian,” the 72-year-old Orthodox Christian said Sept. 23, the day Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas applied for full membership in the United Nations.
Palestinians currently have observer status at the U.N.
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to hold preliminary talks today on the Palestinian application. The United States has pledged to veto the proposal if it comes up for a vote in the Security Council. The U.S. has called for a return to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as a way to resolve the issue.
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s number two State Department official, called Sept. 27 for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in remarks delivered in New York, according to Catholic News Agency. He insisted that “if we want peace, courageous decisions have to be made.” Archbishop Mamberti, whose official title is Secretary for Relations with States, encouraged “the realization of the right of Palestinians to have their own independent and sovereign state, and the right of Israelis to guarantee their security.” He also insisted that both states be “provided with internationally recognized borders.”
But Manarious, whose family fled Ramle, a town in what is now Israel, in 1948, isn’t overly optimistic his clan will be able to reclaim their home.
“The house is still there. I’ve visited it twice, but I don’t think I’ll get it back, even though it’s my right,” Manarious said in the shady garden of his home in the Old City of Jerusalem just prior to Abbas’ speech.
Now that the “Palestine” issue is front and center at the U.N., Palestinians, including Christians, are grappling with what a future Palestinian state might mean for them.
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Congratulations, your posts and threads continue to be pure fiction.
"A lasting peace will only be achieved through negotiations in good faith between Israelis and Palestinians avoiding actions or conditions that contradict the statements of good will," the Vatican representative stated. "Consequently, the Holy See exhorts the parties to return to negotiations with determination and makes an urgent appeal to the international community to increase its commitment and stimulate its creativity and initiatives, so that a lasting peace is reached, in respect of the rights of Israelis and Palestinians."
It has already been shown that the Pope is anti Jewish and pro Muslem by kissing the Koran. The Pope needs to keep his nose out of politics they did not stand up to the Nazi’s and other atrocities in this world. You can’t choose what evil to expose one must expose all evils.
Secondly, it was not a Koran -- a green Arabic Eastern Catholic bible makes sense as do you really think the Moslems would not be crowing about a Pope venerating a Koran? You think they would not be shouting about it all the time? Yet one hears only crickets.
Thirdly, the OP has posted other "Onion" type joke articles on the Religion Forum before -- check my post 21. Don't fall for any ploy to get folks to attack
Fourthly, why don't you actually ask a Jew about the Papacy in World War II? Read this article: 'Hitler's Pope' saved thousands of Jewish lives, Pope helped Jews flee Holocaust or Allied diplomats pressed Pope Pius to be silent on Nazi deportations and the same Pope said HITLER AND STALIN POSSESSED BY DEVIL - POPE PIUS XII TRIED EXORCISM OF HITLER -- and while there was news coming out of the Nazi death camps to Churchill and Roosevelt, they suppressed it, so do you mean that all US presidents should now shut up?
And You can’t choose what evil to expose one must expose all evils. -- does your particular religious group do this to ALL evils? Every single one of them?
Father Joe say differntly thast it was a koran and it was a gift.
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