Pray for peace in one-state Palestine

by Letters Editor · April 17, 2014

From Ken Hanna, Johannesburg

I read with great interest of Pope Francis� pending visit to Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, as well as Claire Mathieson�s front page article, �South Africans give Palestinians hope� (January 29).

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Full marks to Fr Peter-John Pearson and Archbishop Stephen Brislin. Their steps in Gaza will be of great historical significance in the future.

The concept that Jewish people, Lebanese people and Palestinian people can live in peace and harmony is not as far off as one would expect. Slowly but surely all the myths and untruths are being exposed.

Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and South Africa will always be a shining example that two nations can live peacefully.

The example that two nations can live under one roof, in peace and harmony, as in Belgium and in Switzerland, must be noted.

The Zionists will, sooner than we expect, have to take that giant step of a one-state solution, where all are equal under the law. Students of the Middle East know that the Zionists, unwittingly, have already created one state.

Pray that the 5 million Jewish people in occupied Palestine can be set free, that 5 million Palestinians in occupied Palestine can be set free, that 5 million Palestinians in the diaspora can visit their homeland with dignity, and that Jewish people worldwide can visit Jerusalem with a clear conscience, that there will be no borders between the �people of the cedars and Palestine�, and that the 14 million Lebanese people in the diaspora can visit the cedars of the Lord and Jerusalem one day.

Please help dispel the myth that the current Zionists are the Hebrews and the Israelites of the Bible.