Last night after Friday prayers, Dundee Central Mosque hosted an open meeting on how to resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict peacefully. I gave a Christian perspective and Imam Ayyaz gave a Muslim perspective. A large number of local Christians and Muslims attended.
My presentation traced the roots of the conflict back to the 19th Century and British foreign policy showing the complicity of British Christian leaders and politicians in creating the problem and American leaders now perpetuating it, largely for the same religious and strategic reasons.I showed graphically how Zionists are imposing what Jeff Halper describes as a 'Matrix of Control' in order to deprive as many Palestinians as possible of their land in the Occupied Territories before unilaterally declaring the borders of Israel.
I concluded with a series of seven constructive, non-violent and democratic steps we can employ in order to bring a just and lasting settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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