Is Anti Zionism Anti Semitism?!
Ibrahim Ebeid

I was not surprised to hear that some Catholic religious leaders have met with Zionist leaders in a meeting that took place in Buenos Aires recently. They have considered that "anti Zionism is anti Semitism". It is indeed a sad state that the Catholic Church in the West has reached. This step indeed has passed all the misgivings and the wrong doings that the church committed in the past. In fact Zionism is a racist movement. The Palestinians are Arabs and the Arabs are Semite and this Racist movement is against them. Its acts in Palestine are a testament to our allegations.

The Zionist movement obliterated Palestine and the Palestinians were subjugated to a systematic killing, which is genocide. Shamelessly these Catholic Leaders who signed the Buenos Aires Statement are supporting the genocide against the Palestinian and the obliteration of their country.

No one escaped the tyranny of the Zionist entity which was created illegally in a Palestine that is historically Arab and belongs to the Palestinians people since time immemorial. Even the Christians of Palestine, the Holy Land, were not spared. They were and still are being persecuted by this vicious racist entity that you are supporting. They flourished and progressed under the Arab Muslim rule and throughout history, they were an active part of the society until
your Zionist allies came They were 30% of the land and now they are less than 2% thanks to you and to your blind support for such a racist movement and entity.

The Zionist Movement started its aggression against the Palestinians long before the establishment of the entity by the Christian West. Prior to the unjust and illegal Partition Resolution of November 1947 the Zionists were planning, organizing and carrying out terror and
sabotage activities against the British and against the Moslem and Christians of the Holy Land.

The terror continues to the present time. Our children are being jailed and killed, our lands are being destroyed and confiscated, including lands that belong to the Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, our olive trees are being uprooted, and our homes are  being bulldozed. We were dispersed around the World and deprived from living in our country.

Our clergies also did not escape the persecution of this racist movement and its entity. Do you remember the story of the he Roman Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Capucci?  To remind those among you who have forgotten, he was put in jail in 1974. He was  tortured and spat at by your racist friends that you defend, the  Zionists; then he was sentenced for 12 years. A respected Cleric was  accused of being terrorist by the racist terrorists themselves.

Just take a look at what is happening in Gaza, in Nablus, in Jenin. In Ramallah and in every inch in Palestine and let your conscience speak up, unless it is dead. Indeed you have eyes and you cannot see and have ears and cannot hear.

We have lost faith in the West. We have lost faith in their religious and political institutions and I wish that my fellow Christian Arabs will go back to our roots and cut the hair that holds us with the Western Churches. We are the cornerstones of Christianity. Those Christian leaders, whether Evangelist or Roman Catholic who support the Zionist Movement have rejected the cornerstone; they became Zionist Christians, their religious institutions will crumble, they
have gone astray.