by Yoni Hersch
Ron Prosor to U.N: Israel is the only place in the Middle East where minorities are free to practice their faith, says that Christians fled both Hamas and PA rule in Gaza, West Bank • Calls on international community to support Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
Israeli Ambassador to the
U.N. Ron Prosor
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The international community is turning a blind
eye to the murder of minorities in the Arab world, Israeli Ambassador
to the United Nations Ron Prosor said this weekend.
"Last year police in Saudi Arabia stormed a
Christian prayer meeting and arrested its entire congregation, including
women and children. ... In 2013, three Iranian Christians were caught
selling Bibles, found guilty of 'crimes against state security,' and
sentenced to 10 years in prison."
Prosor said that while minorities were
persecuted and slaughtered throughout the region, "there is only one
place in the Middle East where minorities have the freedom to practice
their faith, to change faiths, or to practice no faith at all -- and
that is Israel."
"It's time for the U.N. Security Council to
break its silence on the murder and expulsion of Christians and other
minorities in Arab states," the Israeli envoy said.
"Since Hamas took over in 2007, half of the
Christian community has fled Gaza. After the PA took control of
Bethlehem in 1995, Palestinian gunmen seized Christian homes and looted
the Church of Nativity. Owing to this persecution, the city's Christian
population fell by nearly 70%."
Prosor also praised the Kurdish fighters in
Iraq for their courage and called on the international community to back
them, stressing the Kurds' right to political independence.
Earlier, Prosor warned against allowed a Hamas-controlled terrorist state to be established in Judea and Samaria.
"The Palestinians want a state without negotiations, without compromise, and without a peace deal," he said.
"Imagine what a state like that would look
like -- an extremist Islamist terrorist state. A state that will be
funded by Iran, will be armed like Hezbollah in Lebanon, that will be as
unstable as Syria and Iraq and as dangerous as the Islamic State."
Yoni Hersch
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=24483
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