Azerbaijan, Baku, April 26 /Trend, U.Sadikhova/
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is based on the political and territorial disputes, but certainly does not take a religious character, said Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi of Moscow and an officer of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC).
"The problem is that the existing conflict is exacerbated by the addition of a religious colour," Goldschmidt, who attends a summit of religious leaders, which opened in Baku, told Trend.
According to representatives of delegations from different countries, one of the achievements of the summit should be strengthening the inter-religious dialogue.
According to Rabbi Goldschmidt, the core problem in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is that in the secular society, the religious leaders use extreme nationalism in religious purposes. This, he said, is an attempt to return people back to faith.
"When it is impossible to return the believers to the house of prayer via religion, then [religious leaders] are using nationalism in a very sharp form, said Goldschmidt. But the Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious leaders reject the religious character of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict".
He said that the meetings such as the summit held in Baku may affect the religious leaders not to use the religious factor for the complication of the conflict.