Kritik mot "fredskonferensen" i Paris

Många befarar att konferensen i Paris kommer att gå i samma spår som FN resolution 2334 och ytterligare försämra utsikterna för fred, samtidigt som man sätter helt oacceptabla krav på Israel.

Öppet brev från ECI till deltagarna i fredskonferensen i Paris på söndag: (innehåller viktig information)
Participants in the Middle East Peace Summit
Middle East Peace Summit in Paris - January 15th, 2017

French “quick fix” undermines central principles in international law (ECI)
“The extremely untimely and one-sided UNSC resolution 2334 and the inflammatory speech of outgoing US Secretary of State John Kerry on December 28 where he claimed that “Israel cannot be Jewish and democratic at the same time”, gives a clear indication of the spirit and the motives behind the Paris conference.
“Instead of rejecting the historical claims of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland by calling some of the holiest sites in their history, such as the Western Wall, “illegal” and “occupied”, the international community should instead affirm the rights of both Jews and Arabs to live in the region”, he said.
The letter makes clear that the measures presented in Paris would clearly infringe the principle of sovereign equality of states and the fundamental right of the State of Israel to territorial integrity, inviolability and political independence, as reflected in the UN Charter and Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. All UN Member States are obliged to recognise these rights, and they have no jurisdiction whatsoever to determine the borders of another sovereign UN Member State.


A Call on All Christians to Defend Their Birthplace and the Homeland of the Jewish People (Gatestone Institute)
by Petra Heldt Director of the Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity, Jerusalem.

- We need ensure that the Old City of Jerusalem, the heart of Judaism for more than 3,000 years and the seat of Christianity for 2,000 years, will not be allowed to be Islamic as part of what would soon be an Islamic country, and very likely a terrorist one. In such a state, all polls show that the next vote will be to install Hamas.

- Based on the Hamas Charter that denies Israel's right to exist, the vote could complete eliminating Jewish -- and Christian -- history and replacing it with Islam.

- What drives Western politicians to be servants aiding the destruction of Judeo-Christian culture in the Middle East and Europe? Why does the Paris peace conference prepare for the destruction of the Jewish State while Christians are murdered in Muslim countries in historically unparalleled numbers?

- Christians will not be silent when all these places will be voted to go to those who will destroy them -- as they destroyed Palmyra, Antioch, Nisibis, Niniveh, and in late 2014, Iraq's oldest Christian monastery, St. Elijah, leveled by the Islamic State.

- The streets of Paris must hear the protests against the attempted rewriting of history at the peace conference and any subsequent Security Council vote. Such protestors are like "a man who would built up the wall and stand in front of God in the gap on behalf of the Land" (Ezekiel 22:30) -- so that the only bastion of democracy, the very defender of Christianity, the last keeper of Judeo-Christian heritage in the Middle East and Europe will continue to prosper.

The UN Holocaust: More Lies and Treachery on the Way?  (Gatestone Institute)
The launch of this diplomatic attempt to gut Israel will start on January 15, in Paris, at a "peace conference" -- which should immediately be postponed a week.