NATIONAL Representatives of the Kenya Clergy Alliance has called for diplomatic lasting negotiations to deescalate violence between Israel and Palestine.[Jonah Onyango, Standard] A section of religious leaders has weighed in on the Israel and Palestine conflict, calling for diplomatic negotiations to stop escalating violence in the two countries. The Christian leaders expressed their solidarity with the Jewish nation of Israel and appealed to both sides to lay down arms. They warned that the resurgence of violence between Israel and Palestine will make it harder to pursue peace. Speaking in Nairobi, the United Clergy Alliance of Kenya chairman Bishop Francis Mulinge was emphatic that without the Jews and the nation of Israel there would be no Christianity as it is today.