Speech of Mr. Maher Canawati, Honorary President of the Bethlehem Islamic Club, during the celebration of the Golden Jubilee and the end of the club’s sixth sports week.
Gentlemen, with the preservation of titles
Today, on this occasion, we meet fifty years after the founding of this ancient club, the Fathers and Grandfathers Club. Indeed, we and you today have the right to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Bethlehem Islamic Club, which worked hard in its successive administrations, to remain a beacon for this city and who gathered all its mosaics without discrimination or distinction and out of it were distinguished players. They conveyed through their daily lives the most beautiful types of coexistence befitting the city of the cradle of Christ, to him be glory, which reflects the true spirit of Islam. The club was a school to teach respect for religions and coexistence. Here, I would like to admonish my family and loved ones in the city of Bethlehem for their lack of required interaction, providing support and providing the necessary projects to maintain the continuity of this club and serve our children in this city. I called on all attendees, as well as absentees, to support this club, which does not stop providing its services to the people of Bethlehem in particular and the people of the governorate in general.
You have also noticed during the previous weeks the sports week that the club held, which included various activities in all sports, the most important of which was the diversity that allowed all ages to participate, and it was in itself an achievement that other clubs could not establish. How great you are, sons of the Islamic club.
We must commend the role of the sports federations, the Olympic Committee and its leader Brother Abu Rami Jibril Rajoub for the qualitative shift in Palestinian sports. All thanks and appreciation to you and President Abu Mazen, may God preserve him, for his constant interest in youth.
During our participation in this sports week, we always miss our martyrs, the sons of this club in particular, and all of our martyrs. A thousand mercy on the souls of us, and we wish our brave prisoners to meet them as soon as possible to participate with us in the activities of the sports week and the club’s activities in general, and we call for the speedy recovery of all the wounded.
Glory and eternity to our brave martyrs, freedom for the prisoners, and a speedy recovery for the wounded.
Many congratulations to you on this occasion, and may God continue to serve this country.
