By Bernice Bessey
The Country Director of Africa-Israel Initiative, Ghana, Rev Perey Gilbert Apreala
The Africa Israel Initiative-Ghana Country Director, Rev. Perey Gilbert Apreala, has reiterated that Africa leaders must not mortgage their collective conscience to aids which will compel them to adopt policies that don’t fall in line with their cultural beliefs and practices.
He said it was high time Africa nations begin to take firm decisions against subventions that would tie their hands to ratify clauses that don’t reflect the continent’s traditional and religious settings. Rev. Apreala was of the view that Africa had relied too much on other countries for aid, and it was time it also lends helping hands to others.
The Country Director was speaking at the launch of the Africa Israel Initiative conference dubbed “In the Steps of the Fathers”, recently in Accra. The conference, which was scheduled to start today to Friday this week, hoped to bring together speakers from across the globe. Also, the conference would be used as a medium to call on countries on the black continent to join hands with Israel to promote peace in the Middle East.
According to the Ghana Director, Africa would stand the chance of God’s blessing if it partnered Israel to promote a good case, adding: “It is funny how the way the whole world was against Israel, meanwhile, they are for peace. It about time for the world to understand who God has blessed no man can curse.”
The Country Director described Israel as a country that shares borders with nations that wished they could wipe it totally from the face of the earth. He noted that Israel was the only country on earth that suffers violence and hostility from its neighbours, and African countries must support for peace to be restored in the region.
He said it was against all human rights principles to wipe one particular race from existence on the earth, just as some nations have done and are still trying do to Israel. He challenged Africans to rise up to the call, because whatever happens in the Middle East, directly or indirectly, has an impact on the entire world, saying: “Africans should not be afraid to declare who it wants to be friends with.”
Also, the National Director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, Rev. Kofi Oduro Agyeman-Prempeh, added that the true story of Israel has never been told due to the manner in which some countries had tried to suppress it.
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