A message of truth going out to a world drowning in lies. “Thanks to Israel, I Can Have a Merry Christmas,” by Father Gabriel Nadaf (translated by Avi Woolf), Mida.org, December 24, 2014:
Right now, while Christians the world over are celebrating Christmas, entire communities of the followers of Christ cannot rejoice. The Middle East and parts of Africa continue to drown in rivers of blood, with various minorities being targeted by radical Islamic organizations such as ISIS, Hamas, Jabhat al-Nusra, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and others.
The Christians there are stuck in the middle of a maelstrom of genocide and ethnic cleansing occurring on a daily basis through horrific acts of rape, crucifixion, theft, expulsion, destruction, burning of churches, forced conversions, abduction of nuns and the murder of priests, children, women and the elderly. Sometimes the murderers slaughter whole families, sometimes they murder some in front of the rest and then let the others live with the nightmare. People who can flee to the west, and those who can’t leave or who wih to remain must live with the danger.
The Middle East is effectively being cleansed of Christians. In the beginning of the 20th century, Christians constituted some 20% of the population in the region. Today, it’s 4% and falling. 77% of Iraq’s Christians have fled since 2000, in addition to the thousands who were murdered or forcibly expelled. 450,000 Christians have fled Syria since the civil war began in 2011, for fear they would share the same fate.
Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, had a clear Christian majority. Since 1995, when Israel handed the city to the Palestinian Authority, Christians have been leaving in droves. Today, Christians are only 15% of the population, some say it’s even less. Elsewhere in Palestinian-run areas, Christians are also leaving, and in Hamas-run Gaza, the situation is even worse.
Middle Eastern Christians are not just targets for abuse and murder, but are also regularly treated as second class citizens and coping with racism and religious, economic and social discrimination. All because they adhere to Christianity, which espouses peace and goodwill to all mankind.
This bears repeating again and again: Christians in Arab countries live on the margins, without rights, with their property stolen, their honor trampled, their children sacrificed and the slaughter ongoing.
A safe haven in Israel
Within this chaos, only one island of sanity can be found where the Christians are not persecuted, where they enjoy freedom of religion and ritual, freedom of expression, and where they can live in peace without fear of genocide. That island is the State of Israel. The state in which I and my Christian brothers were born allows Christians complete freedom. Jews and Christians live in Israel in peace and as good neighbors. This is not just because Jesus was born in Jewish Bethlehem and was born a Jew, but because Christians and Jews share a common heritage and a shared hope for a peaceful coexistence.
Israeli Christians are an inseparable part of the population’s fabric, and as its citizens they may elect and be elected to its parliament and local municipalities, rights they use regularly. As a demographic group, they are the most educated community in Israel, are integrated in the legal system as lawyers and judges, serve as officers in the police and the IDF, and occupy various positions in government offices and institutions. You can find many of them as students and faculty in universities, in the health system, on sports teams, in culture, and throughout the private sector. The churches, monasteries, and Christian sites are preserved and run by the various churches entirely freely.
Middle Eastern Christians were always taught that the Arab nation is as one, made up of Muslims and Christians: “We are brothers with a common enemy – the State of Israel,” so they told us. But in recent years, Christians have woken up from the lie which accompanied them for decades, encountering instead a reality of discrimination, persecution and death. This reality has brought Christians in the State of Israel to search for our true identity and return to our authentic roots, before the Arabs and Islam came to the region.
We, the Christians of the State of Israel and the Middle East, are not Arabs, but Arameans in our heart and soul. Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic, one can find Aramaic Holy Books in Middle Eastern churches and before the Muslims invaded, most of the Middle Eastern Christians spoke Aramaic.
This year, the State of Israel recognized the Aramean nation in the population registrar, and is in fact the first state in modern history to recognize this nation, thus allowing Christians to return to their historic identity which was blurred in the Middle East with a nation not their own over the centuries. Unfortunately, the world is not aware of this fact and does not thank the State of Israel which protects Christians and allows them a life of freedom. To the contrary, many in the international community have chosen through ignorance, anti-semitism and incorrect information to criticize Israel with the clear intent of harming and weakening it.
And the world is silent
A few months ago, I held a number of meetings with senior officials from the European Parliament and at the European Commission in Brussels. When I told them about the freedom of Christians in Israel, I was shocked to learn that some of them knew nothing about this, and some even admitted that this was the first time that they had received such information on Christians in Israel. The reason for this is that the information that does reach the European Commission on a regular basis is partial and distorted, portraying Israel as a persecutor of Christians.
To me, this is a double crime. Those who choose to lie and distort information passed on to the media, the political establishment or the authorities while hiding the truth and with the sole purpose of hurting the State of Israel for political motives, thus gives aid to extreme elements which strive to destroy the Jews, Christians, Druze, Yezidis and other minorities. Through this illegitimate method, the international community contributes to the worsening of the already difficult humanitarian situation in the Middle East and also bears the responsibility for the situation which forces Christians from their homes. It is time that the world woke up, looked reality in the eye and understood the evil which strives to destroy the Jewish and democratic State of Israel.
The world is trying to weaken Israel and make it easy prey for terrorism. By doing so, they pass a death sentence on Christians in the Middle East and the Holy Land, where Jesus Christ our Lord was born. NGOs and pseudo-Christian organizations, which have not yet freed themselves of the old anti-semitism, who are not familiar with the history of the Holy Land and who disgrace Christianity, act in Israel and the Palestinian Authority and receive millions of Euros from EU countries and institutions.
These organizations adopt a clear anti-Israel policy, sometimes under the cover of “social” and “human rights” activity but with the clear political aim of harming the State of Israel. The results of this activity both directly and indirectly harm the rights of Israeli Christians, who wish to integrate into Israeli society, and harming the delicate fabric of relationships between communities in the State.
Just a few days ago, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) published a report on human rights in Israel in 2014. The report is slanted, manipulative and dangerous. This report, which contains chapters on “Arab minority rights”, “Freedom of Expression” and “Harming of Freedom of Expression During Protective Edge” completely ignores the issue of Christians striving for full integration and which represent true coexistence. The report does not refer once to the Arab incitement, persecution and violence, the attempts to silence us, the intolerance and attempts to harm our freedom of religion and ritual. These have been a regular occurrence over the past two years, including explicit calls for my murder and the murder of my friends from the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum.
The only mention of Christians in this manipulative report is the investigation of a citizen, who as part of an ongoing campaign of incitement published a picture of Recruitment Forum members on his facebook page along with a veiled threat. This is tagged by the report authors as an example of “policing” the internet and harming free speech. This report, which completely ignores our situation, exposes the bias of the ACRI towards anything which doesn’t fit their political agenda. It is a good example of how EU-funded organizations actually harm the rights of Jews and non-Jews in the State of Israel.
The international community must understand that if the Reaper’s scythe reaches the Land of Israel, then no Christians will remain in the birthplace of Christianity. There will no longer be a living basis for the Faith of Christ. Only by standing alongside Israel and understanding that ensuring its Jewish identity will ensure its democratic regime will ensure the continuing flowering of the Christian community here, which looks fated to be the last remnant of Christianity in the Middle East.
Father Gabriel Nadaf is the spiritual father of the Aramean Christian community and the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum.
jewdog says
I’m afraid the reaper’s sword won’t stop with the Mideast. There are so many fools in Europe who are greasing the skids for their own demise. Grudgingly, my hat’s off to the clever Islamic supremacists who have tapped into European anti-Semitism so effectively – they are winning the ideological war.
By the way, Nadaf’s son and Netanyahu’s son both joined the IDF on succeeding days recently.
Philip says
I’d like to see a swap of mid east Christians for “Palestinian” muslims in Judea and Samaria. There is no future for Christians in muslim controlled lands. There can be no peace between the peace loving Jews and murderous muslims in our Holy Land. Time to say goodbye and thanks for the falafel.
gordon miller says
It seems Jews and Christians alike are the targets of the hateful and pernicious threat of Islam. For once we share the same enemy. In a sense, this is for the good, for there is safety in numbers, and it will be a tough fight to rid the world of Islam in all its forms. Perhaps, after our Dear Leader leaves office in two years, America, in behalf of its Christians and Jews and its well-established Judeo-Christian morality, will rise up in strength to defeat our common foe. Only with this person’s departure and new leadership do we have a chance of survival.
Diane DeMarco says
Gordon, you are so right about Obama’s departure. Our only chance is for a staunch and strong Conservative to lead our country out of the darkness and despair we are in.
gravenimage says
Philip wrote:
Time to say goodbye and thanks for the falafel.
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Muslims can’t even claim falafel—in fact, many Muslims consider falafel Haram because the “Prophet” didn’t eat it. In fact, JIhadists have murdered falafel sellers on just this basis.
But some Muslims have claimed that felafel is an Arab invention, just as Israeli Jews have said it was originally a Jewish dish. A while ago an Israeli journalist decided to look into the matter, and found in his research that it was neither—instead, falafel was developed by Christian Copts in the Middle Ages as a dish for meatless Fridays.
Of course, a Jewish journalist had no problem following a story wherever his research led—I doubt many Muslims would have done the same.
http://www.guideinisrael.com/2013/09/falafel-the-quintessential-israeli-food/
Kepha says
Felafel is made of chick pea, which has been eaten in the Mediterranean and Mideastern region since time immemorial. Observant, biblicist Christian that I am, I wouldn’t be surprised if felafel was eaten before God called Abraham the Patriarch out of Ur of the Chaldees.
Edison says
This a great article, Thank you Robert Spencer. Until I read Raymond Ibrahim’s book
Crucified Again, I was not aware of the widespread horror facing Christian’s in Muslim
dominated countries. I appreciate that Israel is a safe haven for them.
eib says
No Muslim claim on the God of Abraham should be honored. No Muslim claim about Jesus Christ should be honored. Islam is profane. There is nothing of God in it. It is nothing more than an instrument of force, fear, and violence; a creation of envy and hatred. Satanic to its core.
cs says
Thanks Robert, now some truth been spilled out.
Slowly this trend will prevail, because it is the truth.
AnneM says
A good and blessed Merry CHRISTmas to all my brother and sister Christians around the world! God Bless!
ApolloSpeaks says
I HAVE IT ON THE GOOD AUTHORITY OF MY JEWISH AND CHRISTIANS FRIENDS IN ISRAEL
that Santa’s first stop on his whirlwind trip across the globe in gifting people was Jerusalem-the eternal capital of the Jewish people.The reason for the visit was to reward Israel for its extraordinary kindness towards and protection of its more than 160,000 Christians-the only Christian community that is growing in the increasingly genocidal anti-Christian, radicalized Middle East. In Santa’s first time ever gifting a non-Christian he went to the home of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and gave him a 24 ct. gold necklace showing a crucifix inside the Star of David. As he presented the gift Santa told Bibi that it signified the solidarity of Jews and right thinking, pro-Israel Christians everywhere.
Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for more Christmas cheer.
Judi says
Not if you watch this piece of propaganda trash from Al Jazeera today (who else!)
Judi says
Sorry, here it is:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2014/12/continuing-plight-palestinian-christians-2014122519382395
Isabella says
Jewish and Christians do live in harmony in many, many countries of the World. We are united to fight the evil Islam.
C says
Bullshit!
Isabella says
I know you write about what you know best.
Champ says
Good one, Isabella!!
“Jewish and Christians do live in harmony in many, many countries of the World. We are united to fight the evil Islam.”
Hear, hear! ..so true!
Merry Christmas, Isabella! 🙂
Angemon says
See? This is why arab Christians have no qualms serving in the IDF,
Charli Main says
” Christians in Arab countries live on the margins, without rights, with their property stolen, their honor trampled, their children sacrificed and the slaughter ongoing.”
The world has mostly forgotten that the Christians of the Middle East are not living in Arab lands.
They are living in their own lands now occupied by Muslim invaders from Arabia. Time was, when the population of the Middle East and North Africa were almost 100% non Arab Christian.
The extermination of the indigenous non Arab populations of these regions, by the invading Arab Muslims from Mecca, has been on going since around 636 AD.
carpediadem says
Israel is also occupied by Muslims and the only ones fighting back.
Pity there are so many Christian groups supporting Islamic terrorism and boycott against Israel.
Christians need to deal with this if they want to save their brethren from Islamic murder.
RCCA says
Merry Christmas to Robert and Jihadwatchers!
Angemon says
Merry Christmas to you too RCCA 🙂
Salah says
“Christians and Jews share a common heritage and a shared hope for a peaceful coexistence.”
That’s because, unlike Muslims, they share the same God.
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“The world is trying to weaken Israel and make it easy prey for terrorism. By doing so, they pass a death sentence on Christians in the Middle East and the Holy Land,…”
That’s because the world hates God.
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“In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
Merry Christmas to all, many thanks to Robert.
God bless Israel.
Salah (an Egyptian Christian)
Champ says
✡ Israel is a blessing to many! ✡
“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” — Genesis 12:3
Merry Christmas Robert, Marc and All!!
Isabella says
God Bless Israel!
cs says
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/25/guardian-view-religious-intolerance-burden-cross
the guardian talked a little bit about the persecution on christians, in a rather shy way.
David Woolmer says
God bless Father Gabriel Nadaf and our own Robert Spencer who has highlighted so many disgusting and disgraceful attacks on Christian communities in the Middle East. Both men in their own way been threatened by Muslim extremists and so-called Muslim “scholars”.
AS far as the proud nation of Israel is concerned life for its inhabitants and for its very existence would be so much easier if only the USA did not have a Muslim President who grudgingly and much against his will gives luke warm support much against every bone in his body.
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I would like to offer this tribute to the work that both Father Gabriel, RS and at this time particularly,Geert Wilders are doing. From our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”
Bill says
This article and this priest’s testimony shames the very harmful pro-Palestinian and pro-Muslim Christians who spew the venom of Replacement Theology, Fulfillment Theology and anti-Israeli sentiment.
David Woolmer says
Pope Francis has in very many ways been an outstanding representative for the Roman Catholic Church.
However it is my opinion that he may have caused long-lasting damage to Christians throughout the Middle East and,for that matter,even countries based on a Judeo-Christian culture by trotting out yet again that “Islam is a religion of peace”. Can we now expect that the Pope will follow HUSSEIN Obama in calling the Qu’ran a holy book?!
jay says
I agree. He’s been a breath of fresh air but he’s not defending his own people against genocide, which stands out beyond anything else to me. Being for more progressive reforms is one thing, appeasement and cushy hush-hush glove handling of Christianity’s two most recent holocausts at the hands of islamists (what’s happening now and not forgetting what the turks did to the armenians and greeks which they won’t even admit let alone apologize for).
Betty says
at least Putinman is standing for his own people that is MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT THE LITTLE o. some time I think if he thought he could get by with it he would do in all AMERICANS.
dlbrand says
God bless Israel, now and always.
dumbledoresarmy says
God bless Fr Nadaf. May other Christian leaders within Israel, from *all* traditions – Catholic, Protestant (including Anglican), and all varieties of Orthodox – soon wake up, get a clue, shuck off a dhimmi mindset, STOP carrying water for the jihad, repent of and renounce – and *denounce* – all forms of antisemitism, and pitch in to help defend and sustain Israel.
God bless all those Christians within Israel who have screwed up their courage and faith in the Biblical God, renounced the dhimma blood-pact of submission and subservience to Islam, reclaimed their Aramaean identity, and are now seeking to bless and uphold the Jewish state within they are free and safe; blessing it by sending their sons and daughters to join the IDF in order to ensure that Israel *remains* a fortress of light, unconquered by the genocidal Jihad.
My constant prayer for the Christian minorities throughout the Muslim-dominated middle east is that they may be set free from the dhimma, and set free from the spiritually crippling curse that is antisemitism, whether it be the antisemitism they have absorbed from their Muslim overlords, or the antisemitism that, tragically, has poisoned their communities since before the rise of Islam.
And I pray for my brethren elsewhere, also, that hatred and rejection of Zion may be removed from their hearts and from their minds.
These days, I wear a Star of David alternately with a cross, turn and turn about. The Star one day, to declare solidarity with my Lord’s own earthly kin, who are confronted by a rising tide of murderous hate from Muslims and those who share Muslim hatred of Jews; and the Cross the next, to declare my own faith..and my solidarity with persecuted Christians world-wide, most of whom reside in Islamic states or in Islamised parts of the world.
Further thought: there are three books by an Australian scholar Rev Dr Mark Durie – friend and student of the Jewish historian of dhimmitude, Bat Yeor – that need to be translated into Hebrew, and into Levantine Arabic, as quickly as possible, and circulated within Israel.
There is “Which God?” – his examination of the radical difference between the Biblical God – as known and worshipped both by Jews and by Christians – and the ‘allah’ of Islam, which makes mincemeat of the tired old ‘abrahamic faith’ trope much trotted out by Muslim dawa-artists when attempting to bamboozle naive Jews…or naive Christians.
There is “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom” which would be very helpful not only for the dhimmified Christians in Israel, but also for Jews within Israel who either lived in Muslim lands before making aliyah, or descend from Jews who lived as dhimmis. This and “Which God?” should perhaps also be translated into Russian and French, so that Israelis who are more comfortable in those languages can have access to Durie’s clear thinking.
And there is “Liberty to the Captives”, a companion booklet for “The Third Choice”. It offers some ideas on how dhimmified Christians can be freed from what Durie analyses as a dangerous spiritual bondage; ideas that have been “road-tested” in actual pastoral settings.
jay says
There is now a huge Christian diaspora, and seeing how Jews have been treated in returning to their homelands I don’t suspect much better for them. When will people see the light and quit believing in ridiculous zionist conspiracies and see the very real blood and hatred in front of their faces.
Magee says
Why was Bethlehem given to Palestinian Authority? I’m sure Christians didn’t want that.
Edward says
Know Thy Enemy!
“It was plain to see that it would NOT work out to well for them in da end! Could Satan bein manipulatin events to bring about his BEAST’s 42 month rule?” – Mac-101 says @ December 25, 2014 at 9:53 am
You are right Mac, Satan’s spiritual realm is in the center of the Middle East conflicts. This evil spiritual entity is the enemy of the righteous. This evil source is hell bent to destroy our Creator’s human creations unity, which is its ploy. This unseen source of evil is in the middle of our Spiritual Warfare against our world society’s upheaval of war!
Ephesians 6:12 For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the principalities and the ruling forces who are masters of the darkness in this world, the spirits of evil in the heavens.
Edward says
Mentioning about unseen spirits here is one that occurred 100 years in the middle of Europe’s WWl’s battle fields. The Spirit of Christmas promoted this humanity driven and happy encounter.
The following account of the article tell us why this 1916 Christmas truce came about:
“With British and German forces separated only by a no-man’s land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly drifted across the frigid air.”
‘I shall never forget it’: 100 years since WWI Christmas truce’
“German trenches and there were these lights — I don’t know what they were. And then they sang, ‘Silent Night – Stille Nacht. I shall never forget it, it was one of the highlights of my life. I thought, what a beautiful tune,” Pvt. Albert Moren, a British soldier, wrote in a journal.
Then, during that first Christmas Day during World War I, in 1914, something magical happened, at least in some areas.
Soldiers, the number is hard to quantify but believed to be around 100,000, who had been killing each other by the tens of thousands for months, climbed out of their soggy trenches to seek a shred of humanity amid the horrors of war.
Hands reached out across a narrow divide, presents were exchanged, and in Flanders Fields a century ago, a spontaneous Christmas truce briefly lifted the human spirit.
“Not a shot was fired,” Lt. Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxony regiment wrote in his diary that Christmas.
On the other side of the front line, Pvt. Henry Williamson of the London Rifle Brigade was amazed by the goodwill among his enemies.
Read more @
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/24/shall-never-forget-it-100-years-since-ww1-christmas-truce/?intcmp=latestnews
Let’s celebrate Christmas Year around. “Merry Christmas!
Pere LaChaise says
Nadaf DOES NOT speak for Arab Christians, who by and large do not love Israel AT ALL. I wonder who his Bishop is – I can’t find his affiliation noted anywhere. He is most likely with the Jerusalem Patriarch, the Greek Orthodox Church run entirely by Greeks, without a single Arab clergyman allowed to rise above Archimandrite in all its centuries of existence. As a matter of fact, Arab Christian youth have protested the Patriarchate’s blatant colonialism, hellenism and collaborationist stance viz the Zionist occupiers of Palestinian lands. Scandals in the Patriarchate resulted in the laicization of its previous head under circumstances of grave moral turpitude, including homosexuality and drug dealing (!) – not to mention sleazy Netanyahu-friendly real estate deals.
I just give some background on the Jerusalem Patriarchate’s checkered recent past. Nadaf, who posits some new identity for Arab Christians by which they may distance themselves from other Arab Christians to favor collaborating with Zionists – who have absolutely NO love for anyone who is not a Jew – cannot represent Arab Christians in any authentic way as his views, and highly visible handshakes with Bibi are inimical to Arab experience in Palestine, the occupied part and the part merely subject to invasion by IDF.
The invention of a new Arab Christian Identity called ‘Aramaean’ is sponsored by the Israeli government, exactly the way the late Ottoman Porte promoted Protestantism among Armenians in Istanbul and throughout Anatolia, as a way of splitting the community into mutually-opposed factions – DIVIDE & CONQUER, a very transparent ruse.
Nadaf needs to be seen in this light as an inauthentic operative of the Israeli government in collaboration with the Jerusalem Patriarchate to weaken, rather than strengthen the Palestinian Christian community through division.
dumbledoresarmy says
Oh shove off, Muslim – or dhimmi water-carrier for Muslims. Busy trying to gin up hate and spitting with rage at the spectacle of gutsy Fr Nadaf who a/ does not practise virulent antisemitism and b/ refuses to act like a grovelling dhimmi.
I observe you are rather hoping we don’t notice that from the Muslim POV *nothing* – not even shared ethnicity – trumps the Dar al Islam/ Dar al Harb divide between Muslims on the one hand and non-Musims, on the other. Which means that Arabs who are Christian *wlll* be despised, hated, exploited and KILLED by Arabs who are Muslim.
You can try to pretend this enmity of Muslilms against Christians – an enmity that is hardwired into the Islamic texts, and that overrides any shared ethnicity – doesn’t exist, but it does. Muslims – as per their infernal ‘scriptures’ – hate and kill even their own family if said family members leave Islam; so your nonsense about solidarity amongst Arab Christians and Arab Muslims is just …nonsense. It’s BS.
The dhimmi Christians in Israel might do as the dhimma compels – carry water assiduously for the Muslims who are waging genocidal Jihad against Jews qua Jews (Muslim hatred of Jews loooooong predates the reassertion of Jewish sovereignty in part, not all, of traditional ancestral Jewish land), but no matter how low they grovel, the Muslims around them will continue to despise them as practitioners of shirk and will abuse them and treat them like sh*t.
You can talk garbage all you like, but the fact is, Christians are freer and safer inside Israel than they are in any Muslim-majority country; and Fr Nadaf is smart enough to see that and speak and act accordingly. A Christian in Israel is infinitely better off than a Christian in Malaysia or Indonesia or Pakistan or Bangladesh or …Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt….need I go on? There is not *one* Muslim majority country within which a Christian can be said to be truly free or safe.
I’m a Christian and a woman. I would visit Israel without fear and without a moment’s hesitation. There is NOT *one* Muslim-dominated land within which I would consider stepping foot for ten seconds together. Because I’m not stupid.
gravenimage says
Good God—this vicious tool tries to posit pecadillos in Greek Orthodox leadership—accurately or inaccurately—as more important than *Muslim oppression and out and out genocide against Christians*.
This is simply grotesque—but not at all uncommon among Muslim apologists. *Ugh*.
Angemon says
Pere LaChaise posted:
“the Zionist occupiers of Palestinian lands”
http://jewfacts.com/12-questions-every-palestine-supporter-should-know-to-answer/
don vito says
ali…………..?????? ali…………………..?????? Miss Christy…………? O boy. They could really explain the moslem POV, and call people a few names. Ah well, truth prevails. Blessings be to Israel, and Jewish people everywhere and all Kufrs that are here for the duration.
gravenimage says
Christian priest: Thanks to Israel, I can have a Merry Christmas
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Kudos to Father Gabriel Nadaf. May he and his flock have a very Merry Christmas—something rarely possible in Dar-al-Islam, and never without the shadow of fear or worse.
Christians are regularly targeted by vicious Muslims at Christmas time—just look at all the terrible stories of Muslims bombing or shooting up churches at this most sacred time.
Pauline says
Unfortunately there are many U.K. Christians (maybe in other European countries too)who have swallowed the Islamic propaganda and are pro Palestinian, anti Israel. This is causing a division in the church, between those who see the truth and support Israel, and those who have been deceived.
We know if something is good or evil by its fruit, beheading women and children, forced conversion to Islam, death for those who refuse and on and on…….. Anyone who thinks Islam is a peaceful religion, despite all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary is deceived to the point of insanity.
Kepha says
I am not a dispensationalist , and hence see whether or not the re-establishment of a Jewish Israel in its ancient homeland is a harbinger of the end times as an open question. I am further of the mind that the Chosen People of God are those gathered about Jesus the Messiah regardless of whether they are Jew or Gentile (call me an “additionist” rather than a supercessionist; although some might call me the latter).
But I am also keenly aware that no state in the modern Middle East respects Christian rights as much as Israel, and believe that the cleansing of Christians from their ancient homeleands of the Fertile Crescent and Northern Africa a heinous crime. As an American who has served as a diplomat and reported on human rights abuses in China and elsewhere, I feel degraded that the O administration has bent over backwards to please the Muslim Brotherhood, invested the prestige of the USA in bullying Uganda over anti-sodomy laws, and ignores the plight of the Middle Eastern Christians.
I wish Bro. Nadaf success and, since he appears to be Orthodox, a very happy upcoming Feast of the Epiphanion.
And I pray that millions of Muslims will have their eyes opened to the falsehoods of the Qur’an and Hadith, and come to know the Messiah offered in the Old and New Testaments.