Anti-Zionist Rabbi Aren Kohn Says: We Want Palestine Free

Anti-Zionist Rabbi Aren Kohn Says:

We Want Palestine Free

Jewish Rabbi: We Want Palestine Free

7 Rabi Al-Awwal 1430 / Thursday 05 Mar 2009

TEHRAN (FNA)-

An anti Zionist Jewish religious leader here Wednesday strongly criticized Israel's policies, stressing that the Zionist regime has "stolen Jewish identity".

"We (anti Zionist Jews) want Palestine to be set free," Rabbi Aren Kohn told reporters on the sidelines of the 'Fourth International Conference for Support of Palestine, the Model of Resistance, and Gaza, the Victim of War Crimes'.

"We thank Arabs residing in Palestine (occupied territories) for their several hundred years of hospitality to the Jews and want formation of an (independent) Palestinian state," he reiterated.

Condemning Israelis' crimes against Palestinian, the rabbi told reporters, "The Zionist regime has stolen our identity in order for its crimes to look legitimate."

"We must understand the root causes of the problems and check what the Zionists are doing," Kohn added.

Bringing together legal experts from the world's leading rights groups, the conference started work in Tehran on Wednesday morning.

The two-day event is expected to focus on war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out by Israel during its three-week military campaign in the Gaza Strip (December, 2008 to January, 2009.

The participants include senior officials from the main Palestinian groups, such as Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad.

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