Please, your Resolution is based on many false affirmations. Moreover, the issues between Moslems and Christians are the concern of the local Christians and their Spiritual Leaders.
Your Excellencies,
As Co-ordinator of the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, I am asked to write to you in response to the Resolution which you are submitting to the House of Representatives of the USA – “Condemning the Persecution of Palestinian Christians.”
Please, your Resolution is based on many false affirmations. Moreover, the issues between Moslems and Christians are the concern of the local Christians and their Spiritual Leaders who are able to resolve them for themselves. They are not seeking your interference in their internal problems.
Furrthermore, the Palestinian Authority is not allowed to exert its full authority to impose public internal order due to the continuing Occupation and its consequences. Therefore, abuses, within this lack of authority are many, between Moslems and Moslems, as well as between Moslems and Christians.
Your support for the Christian Presence in the Holy Land will best be served by helping to remove the Separation Wall ( which has converted all the Palestinian towns into big prisons for Christians and Moslems alike) and by helping to bring Occupation to an end with all its inherent types of oppression and humiliation.
Yours sincerely,
Michael H. Sellors
