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CHICAGO (IslamOnline) - Despite being a rabbi from a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Menachem Froman called on the negotiators at Sharm el-Sheikh to take into account Muslim sensibilities in their deliberations. Froman, who has repeatedly appealed to the Israeli government to give due consideration to Muslim religious sensibilities, has said that without this, any peace initiative is doomed for failure. He said that successive Israeli governments, especially those of the Left, which believed if one attended to other issues, the religious issue would automatically solve itself, have rejected his message. Froman said that this unrealistic attitude is dominant today as seen in statements by so-called experts who claim that Israeli-Palestinian clashes are due to economic factors. While speaking to the Jerusalem Post, Froman said, "It is true that the Israeli Arabs face economic frustration, but it was not over this that they burned the post office in Jaffa and blocked the highway in Wadi Ara." The Rabbi stated that Muslim sensitivity over the al-Haram al-Sharif has been a continuing source of unrest, from the riots of 1929 to those over the Western Wall tunnel, to the most recent outbreaks. Froman has asserted that if the issue is not attended to, the situation will not improve. "In the holy land, you can't make peace without attending to the issue of holiness," he said. Froman said that in January1999, and again five months ago, he had proposed solutions to both Yasser Arafat and the Israeli government. He said that Arafat was receptive, but the Israelis were not. |
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