NEWYORK,(ST)_ The Syrian-American Forum in New York, New Jersey branch held yesterday a Ramadan Iftar banquet, attended by members of the Syrian community and Arab organizations in the US, in which the participants stressed the unity of Arab communities stand against terrorism faced by Syria and its people.
Chairman of the Forum branch in New York, Dr. Ghias Moussa noted in a speech during banquet the importance of solidarity between communities and to send a unified message to the US administration that terrorism led, supported and funded by the US and its allies, will target it, unless the international community cooperate with Syria in the fight to end terrorism influence and presence in the area.
Moussa said that the terrorist war experienced by Syria aimed at the social fabric posed by the Syrian people, to dismantle all communities in all parts of the world in order to find side wars in the Middle East and spread them around the world in order to divert the attention from the main issue, represented in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Golan and other occupied Arab territories.
The Iftar banquet was attended by chairman of Muslim Unitarian society in America Sheikh Sami Merhi, Rami Eid first Arab and Muslim judge in New Jersey, representatives of the American- Iraqi Forum, the Coptic authority in North America, the Muslim authority in North America as well as a crowd of Syrian, Lebanese, Iraqi Egyptian and Pakistan communities and in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Last Ramadan, the Syrian-American Forum in New Jersey hosted an Iftar banquet for the Syrian community under the title of reunion, confirming unity of Syrian expatriates and their adherence to national principles.
Noteworthy, the Syrian- US Forum is a political and social institution, operating in accordance with US laws, at the efforts of members of the Syrian community and other Arab communities and American peace activists to unify ranks of Syrian expatriates in the US and support Syrian steadfastness against the global war.
Tomader Fateh