TEHRAN A prominent Christian leader in Palestine has accused Zionist circles of seeking to besmirch the Palestinian Christians' stance on the holy places in Al-Qods, an IRNA dispatch from Athens said yesterday.
Archbishop Dr. Hanna Atallah, the highest ranking Orthodox clergyman in Palestine, told the Palestinian news agency "WAFA" that Palestinian Christians were soul and heart part of the Palestinian National Movement and rejected Israeli attempts to create divisions between them and their Muslim brothers.
The Muslims and Christians in Palestine really belong to Palestine and they are for the interest of their homeland. While others are the agents of the Zionists and they look after the interest of aliens.
Fortunately, this week the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) had called on Christians to try to get know and better understand Muslims.
Christians and Muslims are closer and understand each other better as there is no domination of the Zionists among them.
"We reject and detest these suspicious attempts to besmirch the Christians' stance concerning Al-Qods and the Palestinian cause as a whole." Atallah pointed out that Christians in Palestine were not and would never be a "neutral player" in the Al-Qods issue.
"We are part of the Arab and Palestinian nation ... we will not be spectators or onlookers, we will stick to our people in our quest to liberate Al-Qods from the Zionist occupation." The Orthodox archbishop said any Christian who allows himself to be cajoled by the Zionists for sectarian and parochial considerations ejects himself out of the united Palestinian ranks." The Zionist regime has been trying since 1967 to classify Palestinians in accordance with religious affiliation in order to create the impression that Palestinians don't constitute a people but are merely a group of sects and denominations.