NAZARETH (PIC)– The Palestinian Christian Initiative (Kairos Palestine) issued a statement strongly denouncing the Israeli attempts to recruit Arab Palestinian Christians to the Israeli military.
The statement came in response to the Israeli decision to form a joint committee of Palestinian Christians and the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu with the aim to encourage and act on recurring young Arab Christians living in the 1948 occupied territories in the Israeli army.
Kairos stated that the officials who are encouraging enlistment in the occupation army are conducting provocative actions that harm Christian Churches national interests and the Christians themselves.
“Those who call for recruiting Christians to the occupation army do not represent us do not represent our Churches and do not represent the Christians” Kairos said “It seems that some of those who have been deceived chose a wrong path that does not serve our interests and faith as Arab Christians”.
It added that trying to recruit the Christians is immoral and harms the Palestinian Christian identity in the Holy Land.
The initiative called on the international community to shoulder responsibility and take real action regarding the oppression displacement and racial discrimination adopted against the Palestinian people for more than six decades.
