Evangelicals to UN: Indict Ahmadinejad -Etgar Lefkovits
A prominent Jerusalem-based evangelical organization will deliver a petition to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week signed by tens of thousands of Christians from around the world demanding that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be indicted for incitement to genocide against Israel.
The petition, which was initiated by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem and signed by more than 55,000 people from 128 countries, comes ahead of the Iranian leader's planned visit to New York, where he is scheduled address the opening of the UN General Assembly next week.
"The silence of most Christian clergy in the face of Germany's horrific bid to annihilate European Jewry left a deep stain on the churches. Yet from it, has arisen a sense among multitudes of Christians today, that we have an inescapable moral duty to speak out whenever another genocidal campaign threatens the Jewish people," said Rev. Malcolm Hedding, the organization's executive director.
The petition expresses "extreme disappointment" at the "resounding" failure of the UN to take any serious measures to redress the Islamic Republic's "hostile campaign."
Hedding blasted leaders [of] the Mennonite and Quaker movements [who] will be hosting Ahmadinejad at a "dialogue" reception during his US visit. "These Christian leaders will forever be associated with the appeasement of wickedness."
[Jerusalem Post]
A prominent Jerusalem-based evangelical organization will deliver a petition to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week signed by tens of thousands of Christians from around the world demanding that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be indicted for incitement to genocide against Israel.
The petition, which was initiated by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem and signed by more than 55,000 people from 128 countries, comes ahead of the Iranian leader's planned visit to New York, where he is scheduled address the opening of the UN General Assembly next week.
"The silence of most Christian clergy in the face of Germany's horrific bid to annihilate European Jewry left a deep stain on the churches. Yet from it, has arisen a sense among multitudes of Christians today, that we have an inescapable moral duty to speak out whenever another genocidal campaign threatens the Jewish people," said Rev. Malcolm Hedding, the organization's executive director.
The petition expresses "extreme disappointment" at the "resounding" failure of the UN to take any serious measures to redress the Islamic Republic's "hostile campaign."
Hedding blasted leaders [of] the Mennonite and Quaker movements [who] will be hosting Ahmadinejad at a "dialogue" reception during his US visit. "These Christian leaders will forever be associated with the appeasement of wickedness."
[Jerusalem Post]
2 comments:
It's histrionic to term anything like this a concentration camp. You could call it a ghetto, but it has really become a self imposed ghetto. Things may be tough there, but run relatively well. Given that all other ghettos through history were not so smooth, and in this one it has developed because the population often tries to kill their neighbors, one should be a little more open-minded about the entire situation.
As for the Christians signing the petition, it is always good to remind those who hate Israel that it has more friends than just Jews or the US.
Ooops! I seem to have combined my response to 2 posts here! I knew the post about Tony Blair's grandstanding and confused sister-in-law had a second part of the post, but I must have scrolled down too far to this post and missed what was in between. Sorry to confuse the situation!
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