The
21st of September is the day the UN General Assembly starts its new session for
2011. Let us keep this date in our thoughts and prayers, especially that the
Palestinian Leadership will be submitting its bid for the recognition of
Palestine as a member state. We pray
that all UN decisions will be made on the basis of Justice, and that the
powerful will refrain from applying double -standards that
discriminate against the weaker states.
Israeli
settlers on the West-Bank have accelerated their aggression in the past two
weeks. They set fire to three mosques in
villages around the city of Nablus. They also painted graffiti abusive to
Islam and the Prophet Mohammad on the walls of the mosques. In the
West-Bank town of Bir-Zeit, settlers sprawled abusive graffiti on the walls of
Bir-Zeit University and one of the mosques in town. Israeli settlers also physically attacked a
Bethlehem University lecturer and a female student on their way to
University. We pray that the Government of Israel will take measures to
put an end to such attacks, and that the settlers would realize that they
cannot continue to occupy another people's land forever.
We
pray for the upcoming conference in the Netherlands starting on the 15th of
September. The conference is being organized by the "Netherlands Kairos
Palestine Group" to discuss, promote and spread the "Kairos
Palestine- Document "A Moment of Truth". We pray for all those
attending the conference -speakers and participants- that they will speak a
word of truth for the glory of God, and for the sake of peace in Palestine and
Israel.
The
Human Rights organization, B'tselem, draws the attention to the way the Israeli
army, violently, deals with peaceful demonstrations on the West-Bank,
especially most recently, in the West-bank village of Nabi-Saleh near
Ramallah. B'tselem fears that this is an indication of the way the Israeli army
plans to deal with further peaceful demonstrations the Palestinians may
hold to express the affirmation of their rights to statehood and
self-determination. We pray that the
Israeli government will itself recognize Palestinian rights and the right of
people to demonstrate peacefully.
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