And when He was came near (Jerusalem), He beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If you had know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong into thy peace! (Luke, 19, 41-42)
The Сommittee "RAY" starts campaign "To provide an international status and reliable protection for the sites of pilgrimage on the Holy Land " to make it the place of peace and unification people with God.
We all are responsible
Memorandum
of American Ethics Committee " RAY"
in connection with the last events on the Middle East
In gun-sights - the Cradle of Christianity
The land of Palestine and Israel is the main historical and religious area of the world that belongs equally to all people... It is not easy and not only a political task to stop the act of vandalism on the Middle East ... The absolute evil is human indifference... Any believer has no right to be reconciled by that under pretext of the interethnic conflict, the ancient enemy of the Christ and our eternity life takes away from us the most Holy... This war - against all of us...
Mankind, wake up and do operate! The resolute moment of your examination in maturity has come. Do not give to deprive with itself and your descendants of main treasure! Rescue the Holy Land from defilement and utter annihilation, protect and save it for your children and grandsons!
After peace initiatives of Vatican, USA and Europe, formulated as "peace in exchange for territories", from the end of March 2002, on Middle East has taken place new burst of enmity and violence. After a series of acts of terrorism in Israel as a result of which peace inhabitants were lost, women and children have suffered, Israel began scale military actions against Palestine, having entered armies and occupied 6 from 7 of it cities on the Western Banks including Bethlehem, Bethany, Jericho - only which name causes sacred trembling in souls of believers.
Since April 1, in Bethlehem the Church Of Nativity where there are ancient relics of Christianity is besieged; street fights, city and the area before the Church filled with the bodies of victims are conducted. Each shot in walls of this Church is shot in the heart of Christians.
The world community, the United Nations and EU undertake while inefficient efforts to interfere with the conflict and to stop madness; the Israeli Government and personally Ariel Sharon do not suppose the international peacemakers and journalists in a zone of operations. Any attempts to remove and make the independent recording immediately interrupt by the noisy bombs. Illumination of events obviously is tendentious. Foreign tourists and pilgrims are in an extra hurry evacuated from Bethlehem, active surrounding of the Church of Nativity proceeds. Almost all Christian churches and relics are seized by Palestinians or besieged by Israelis.
This war is the war against the God, the war with His blessing. This is the war against True, education and any reason. So, it is the war against life on the ground. It is the war against all of us living here and against those who will come else! There can not be winners.
The Holy Land is in black clouds of fratricidal hatred and madness. It is filled with blood, is covered with wounds by bombs and shells, tormented with caterpillars of thousand tanks and rocket installations. In Holy of the Holiest of Christianity there is the orgy of murders and desecrations of basic relics. In a sight of guns and tanks - in literal sense of this word - the Cradle, the Beginning, the Source of the Christian civilization and culture, when the major moment of it happened and the Light has come in the World for enlighten people.
Our planet did not know the same example and fury of forces of darkness ever. Contrary to protests and all efforts of the world community and personally Pop John Paul II, contrary to any reasonable sense, there is an active at the all levels DESTRUCTION of the HOLY LAND is taking place now. The only heavy overcast and fog does not give Israelis to apply aircraft bombing to make complete done with it.
We all are responsible for this. The moment of our main test has come. Whether whether all of us understand, what truly occurs? Enough we have grown wiser and have got stronger spiritually to manage to protect our main relics? Whether we shall manage to keep and rescue the Holy Land for our descendants?
Angrily it not terrible in itself - do not be afraid of killing the body! - called us Jesus. But it magnificently blossoms in an atmosphere of our indifference and welcoming to it. 2002 ago Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem to come for all and for everyone with words peace to you! God came to all people, not dependent on color of them skin or nationality. There is no Greek or Jew for Him .
The land of Palestine and Israel is not only their personal state territory, but belongs to mankind, being our main treasury, an inexhaustible source of belief and Spirit to pilgrims from hole world around.
We declare the categorical protest and require immediate settlement of this situation which besides innocent human victims, multiplies unprecedented spiritual disasters and blasphemies. This could bring an irreparable damage to a spiritual condition of mankind and put its future under a big question.
Any believer has no right to be reconciled with a similar state of affairs when under pretext of the interethnic conflict, the ancient enemy of Christ is trying to destroy our most holiest. By tanks and bombs, by hatred and blood it is insulting the place of the greatest Revelations and the main Sacraments of our faith.
Stop the violence and bloodshed on Middle East - this is not only a political task. This is an examination for all of us, a test of our love to God and may be the last hope for the future.
If we are truly believe and if we are true, instead of in words, children of God, we have no right to remain indifferent to those inconceivable blasphemies and violations in the Holy Land.
The Secretary General of United Nations, Kofi Annan, acting on one of last sessions of the Council of Europe, has declared, that protecting the citizens from terrorism, Israel has not the right to break norm of the international cooperation and safety. It would be desirable to add, that especially it is impossible to break ethical and moral standards to trample and destroy universal values. All people of good will should unite the efforts and give resolute repulse to evil whatever form it uses to hide itself.
Stop the bloodshed in the Cradle of Love!
Freedom and peace to the churches, relics, and sites of pilgrimage!
Give to all believers unique opportunity for praying and acquiring blessing in the Holy Land!
Stop the Holy Land distraction! It is the only one and never be another. We should show our active position and wise. We can inspire Creator grant us with peace on the planet and in our souls!
The Ethics Committee "RAY" starts to gather signatures of people of good will, Christians, and other believers around the world in support of our protest and for PROVIDING to the SITES OF PILGRIMAGE an INTERNATIONAL STATUS (see the end of this material).
Tanks are in Bethlehem's gardens!..
The march of born blinds
Tanks are near the walls of Bethlehem!
The Church of Nativity is besieged!
Our world allows dilemmas
where its King was born.
Small steel bugs hit the roads
jump rashly, in plague's rhythm,
over cradles and baptismal fonts
where all of us were born too.
Tanks got in the miracle arteries!
Tanks are in the Holy of Holiest!
Black clouds and corpses are there
where is the Most Glory of livings.
This war is against God
and against the Eternal Truth.
Those who throw balls
like in the private bowling room,
can't place the game in their minds right.
They do not understand,
that rates are so miserable.
Not in a tiny market shop
the tanks are counting the corners,
and not above the bakeries
the echo of an ancient disaster booms.
This is the thirst of revenge
incinerates traces -
tears and forces the roads
where our Savior left His footprints.
And the blind born just spat
on the Councils of Europe
They who are not communicants
to the Light and see nothing.
try hard to lie
to turn all brains.
Tanks are in Bethlehem's gardens!
Frenzied, jumping with angry,
do not listen to Profits,
trusting in the return readout.
They try to break by tanks Sanctity
and revolt against the Law
but the Word pronounced up to the End
from Above.
The same can not repeat !
We all are responsible!
We can protect together the Holy Land from violence, desecrations and destructions!
If you support the Memorandum and will to put the signature under it click here.
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Your signatures will be transferred to the United Nations, to the Security Council of Europe, to the President of USA George Bush, and to the Leaders of the Governments of conflicting sides in the Middle East. We will inform about the results of this action permanently on a site http://www.luchmir.com
Bethlehem, April 2-9, 2002. Foto of "Associated Press" and "Reuters"
1.
View of the door of the Church of the Nativity in the Old City of Bethlehem,
April 8, 2002. Israeli troops fired shots at the Church and battled Palestinian
gunmen in the West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus, defying U.S. demands that
they end their offensive. (Magnus Johansson/Reuters)
2. Smoke billows of the left side of the compound of the Church of the Nativity in the Old City of Bethlehem, April 8, 2002. Israeli troops and tanks in a five-day standoff with Palestinians holed up in the church opened fire at the building, causing a blaze in the offices belonging to a local monastery, the governor of the West Bank city said. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
3. A group of Israeli soldiers take cover behind an APC as they advance near the Nativity church in the old part of Bethlehem, April 5, 2002. The Israeli army said it helped four priests slip out of the church. They appeared to be the first clergy to leave the church, one of Christianity's holiest sites, since about 200 Palestinian gunmen and civilians burst in when Israeli troops invaded the West Bank town on Tuesday. (Magnus Johansson/Reuters)
4. Israeli soldiers check their weapons after leaving the West Bank city of Bethlehem at the Gilo checkpoint at the outskirts of Jerusalem, April 5, 2002. Secretary of State Colin Powell will leave Sunday for a Middle East mission aimed at bringing Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said Friday. (Flash 90/Reuters)
5. A group of demonstrators gathers near the Israeli embassy in Washington Thursday, April 4, 2002, to protest Israeli actions in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
©2002,
Luch.
