http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/anglican-bishop-appeals-deportation-order-over-sale-of-land-to-palestinians-1.345375
Suheil Dawani, a Palestinian Christian who took the position of the Anglican Bishop in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel in 2007, ranking as the highest position for Anglicans in the Middle East, has been facing the threat of being deported from Jerusalem, using the excuse that he sold lands that belonged once to Jews to Palestinians, although, all the lands belonging to the Anglican church in the Middle East is controlled by the United Kingdom, and the Anglican cathedral there. He has been refused the VISA renewal, and despite the international pressure from the US, EU, United Kingdom and the Palestinian support to him, his VISA is still canceled, and the Interior Ministry of Israel still want him to be deported from the country.
This is one of the many examples of how Israel is discriminating against Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem. This act is another violation to international laws, and religious laws that any religious figure has the right to stay in his country and practice the freedom of his religion without limitation or restriction.
Woooooooooooowwwwwwww. I do not mean to be blatantly disrespectful, I am just conveying how awed I am at the situation. The irony is obvious. Again it shows how religion needs to stay out of anything political.
ReplyDeleteIt is another act of discrimination against Palestinians of Jerusalem.
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