Vatican Insider: According to the Patriarch Emeritus of Palestinian origin – the first Arab to be appointed Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem – “the means to achieve peace can only be a means of peace. For sixty years we have seen that wars, weapons, massacres are unable to secure any kind of peace”. According to His Beatitude Sabbah, “the only way out of the spiral of violence and destruction is to address the underlying issue, which is the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. There will be peace and security only when Israel will recognize the freedom and sovereignty of the Palestinian state.”
“But maybe we will have to wait for a new generation of Israeli leaders to see this happen. The current leaders believe only in the military force. They have sophisticated weapons to kill, and no power to make peace.” Read more here.
