By Stan Goodenough
Jun 19, 2007
The Geneva-based World Council of Churches Monday announced the launch of a planet-wide crusade to bring churches into alliance against the Jews’ “occupation” of Israel’s biblical lands.
A statement issued from Jordan – where the organization is holding a conference attended by clerics from some of the 347 Protestant churches who make up the WCC – explained how the group would try apply to the Israel-“Palestinian” conflict lessons learned in South Africa, the Sudan, Columbia and Sri Lanka.
“The initiative aims at calling on all churches to work seriously for putting an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab lands,” the statement said.
WCC secretary-general Samuel Kobia of Kenya said they also planned to establish an international forum for peace in the Middle East.
According to an Associated Press report, the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum will be set up mainly in the areas under Palestinian Authority control.
Along with virtually all the national leaders in the world, the WCC supports the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the cradle of Israel’s nationhood, and the relinquishing of those lands to Muslim Arabs who have no prior national claim to them.
The WCC along with the Roman Catholic Church – which is working to draw the WCC into alliance with it – has on occasion been compared to the biblical end-times harlot that rides the anti-Israel beast in the book of Revelation.