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Media deems Trump the Grinch who stole Christmas in Bethlehem

Dec 26, 2017 3:40 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The fake news media narrative circulating the past few days goes something like this: President Donald [Trump]’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital set off an “eruption of violence,” thus dampening the mood in Bethlehem and keeping tourists this Christmas season from one of the holiest cities in Christianity.

Less than two weeks ago, Nazareth’s Muslim mayor cracked down on Christians because of Trump’s decision, and banned traditional Christmas celebrations, which included the cancellation of traditional outdoor caroling and Christmas plays. So it is Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that are the Grinches who stole Christmas from Bethlehem, not Trump.

This kind of behavior and the narrative that Trump is to blame, not the Palestinians, is not new. There is a general rule at play that goes something like this: if any infidels insult, upset or hurt the feelings of Islamic supremacists (when their religion is involved), there is a risk of violence; therefore, the solution is not to provoke Islamic supremacists and jihadists. If infidels do, then no accountability is attributed to the violent perpetrators. This demonstrates one of two points:

i. That the will of the Muslim is supreme over all others and must be obeyed;

ii. That Muslims are expected to be violent if “made” to feel upset, thus sustaining the soft bigotry of low expectations. It is like the wife-beater claiming his wife made him do it. Anyone knows that in civilized society this is unacceptable; but it is somehow deemed to be acceptable for Muslims, which is not a positive commentary on how Muslims are regarded by many.

The US is a sovereign nation and should be allowed to recognize the historic Jerusalem as the capital of Israel without an outbreak of violence. The PA is no innocent entity, with its goal to obliterate Israel. No action that supports the Jewish state of Israel and its historical ties to Jerusalem will ever be accepted by the Palestinians.

Western nations need to stop regarding Muslims as lesser in terms of civility and reasoning.

Now as a result of Palestinian violence, not the Trump declaration, Christians have to endure the dampened mood in Israel, on top being largely driven out of Bethlehem and the surrounding regions due to Islamic persecution.

“KLEIN: Abbas, Not Trump, Is the Grinch Who Stole Bethlehem Christmas”, by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, December 25, 2017:

The fake news media narrative circulating the past few days goes something like this: President Donald [Trump]’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital set off an “eruption of violence,” thus dampening the mood in Bethlehem and keeping tourists this Christmas season from one of the holiest cities in Christianity.

In other words, the news media is falsely claiming that Trump is the Grinch who stole Bethlehem Christmas. A simple reality check is in order here.

A Jerusalem Post article was wildly titled, “In Bethlehem, Trump Blamed for Dampening Christmas Joy.” The piece referred to a “Donald Trump effect” on Manger Square. “The square – normally thronged on Christmas Eve – had plenty of vacant space. And most of the people who were there were Palestinians, not foreign tourists,” the article complained.

One widely circulated AP article is titled, “Jerusalem violence, rain put damper on Bethlehem Christmas.” The missive claims that tourists “appeared to be deterred by clashes that have broken out in recent weeks between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces” following Trump’s Jerusalem decision.

Scores of other mainstream news media articles painted similarly distorted pictures.

No, clashes did not “break out.” Contrary to the warped, Alice Through the Lookingglass lens through which the news media view the Mideast, violence does not spontaneously “erupt” like some sort of weather anomaly.

The “violence” in this case has been entirely and openly orchestrated. For the past few weeks, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian leaders have used Trump’s Jerusalem decision to publically call for anti-Israel riots in a cynical attempt to once again collapse any prospects for peace. Abbas and his PA crew are singularly responsible for all of the ensuring clashes, and for any resultant impact on Bethlehem.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    Media deems Trump the Grinch who stole Christmas in Bethlehem
    ………………………

    Yes–I mentioned this a few days ago here.

    There was a feature on news radio where it was mentioned that many tourists were too frightened to go to Bethlehem. But then, instead of rightly laying the blame at the feet of threatening Muslims, it quoted a “Palestinian” who said “Trump had taken our joy from us”.

    I don’t know if this “Palestinian” was a dhimmi Christian or a Muslim hoping to make a buck off the crowds. In any case, just insane.

  2. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    Good commentry.

    I’m sick of the way the islamic world is exonerated from any responsibility for it’s unremitting violence.

    The way the west pussy foots around with them may just be a self defense mechanism for people who have no values or morals, who don’t really believe in very ‘human rights’ they waffle on about so much, and can’t face the prospect of making tough decisions when their own nations require martial law to contain the islamic threat.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 27, 2017 at 11:54 am

      LeftisruiningCanada, my friend, U are correct when U say that the liars and traitors directing the downfall of civilization don’t really believe in “human rights,” but i believe that they *look forward* to declaring martial law. that will be when they finally seize power, and when civil war will actually begin.

      the left will want to “solve” the muslim problem, and will do so using their favorite technique, mass murder. muslims conveniently congregate in banlieue, so the left can surround them and murder everybody inside. the word of the massacres will leak out, however, since the left has been stupid enough to allow muslims into government, and those muslims will be who spreads the word. U can count on most “moderate” and “peaceful” muslims to become pious instantaneously upon hearing the news. the few thousand (or few hundred thousand) hard-core leftists, who are willing to let U and i die for their leftist cause, will not be willing to die themselves, for the most part, but the pious muslims *will* be willing, even anxious, to die, and there will be millions of them. that’s when civil war between the left and muslims will begin.

      were patriots in every civilized nation not involved, my money would be on the muslims; they are far more prepared for mass murder than leftists, and will be far more numerous. since the lives of patriots and their families, friends, and communities would be on the line, however, it would be then that we patriots need to step in and stop the madness. should we move before then, the left would no doubt declare us lawbreakers, traitors, and nazi menaces, and imprison us (the more easily to murder us). once the populace witnesses the evil loosed by these monsters, however, i believe that the liars in the media will no longer be able to spin what *everybody* witnesses, and rationality will prevail. it is truly disheartening that civil wars will be necessary to rescue civilization, and that civilization is not even guaranteed to survive, let alone freedom, but the traitors on the left, like ms. clinton, mr. obama, and mr. trudeau are the ones with blood already on their hands.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Dec 27, 2017 at 10:31 pm

        ” but i believe that they *look forward* to declaring martial law. that will be when they finally seize power, and when civil war will actually begin. ”

        Actually i think you’re right about that. It’s hard to see another outcome but the eventual, perhaps gradual, militarization of the internal security forces, and ever increasing security measures, each one designed and promised to keep us safe.

        They already look like the army half the time anyway…

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Dec 27, 2017 at 10:37 pm

        ” but the traitors on the left, like ms. clinton, mr. obama, and mr. trudeau are the ones with blood already on their hands.”

        IF, and i say IF, the whole globalist, NWO, A21/2030, Rothschild things is anything like true, these people are probably just bit players, possibly mind control puppets, or just aspiring to the next level on the evil pyramid of satanic power.

        I’m not sure about all that, and keep it in a separate compartment of my brain, caged and partitioned off for the most part, just in case it’s all nonsense. But i think we all have a little Alex Jones living somewhere in our heads, ranting about things.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 27, 2017 at 10:54 pm

        b.a. freeman wrote:

        the left will want to “solve” the muslim problem, and will do so using their favorite technique, mass murder. muslims conveniently congregate in banlieue, so the left can surround them and murder everybody inside.
        ………………………………….

        Uh…right. Muslims are not a threat, but evil leftist Infidels are mass murdering Muslims. Try again…

        More:

        the word of the massacres will leak out, however, since the left has been stupid enough to allow muslims into government, and those muslims will be who spreads the word. U can count on most “moderate” and “peaceful” muslims to become pious instantaneously upon hearing the news.
        ………………………………….

        The idea that violent Jihad is in response to Infidel violence against Muslims is *utterly false*. What bald-faced Taqiyya.

        More:

        the few thousand (or few hundred thousand) hard-core leftists, who are willing to let U and i die for their leftist cause, will not be willing to die themselves, for the most part, but the pious muslims *will* be willing, even anxious, to die, and there will be millions of them. that’s when civil war between the left and muslims will begin.
        ………………………………….

        Oh, right–the poor, poor Muslims, being manipulated by the evil Infidels…

        More:

        were patriots in every civilized nation not involved, my money would be on the muslims; they are far more prepared for mass murder than leftists,
        ………………………………….

        How does this even make any sense, since b.a. freeman just said that this civil war would be propagated by leftists cynically mass murdering all the Muslims in the banlieues? He can’t even keep his claptrap straight.

        More:

        …and will be far more numerous. since the lives of patriots and their families, friends, and communities would be on the line, however, it would be then that we patriots need to step in and stop the madness. should we move before then, the left would no doubt declare us lawbreakers, traitors, and nazi menaces, and imprison us (the more easily to murder us).
        ………………………………….

        Again, b.a. freeman is claiming that Muslims present no threat, but that our fellow Infidels are intent on murdering us.

        More:

        once the populace witnesses the evil loosed by these monsters, however, i believe that the liars in the media will no longer be able to spin what *everybody* witnesses, and rationality will prevail. it is truly disheartening that civil wars will be necessary to rescue civilization, and that civilization is not even guaranteed to survive, let alone freedom, but the traitors on the left, like ms. clinton, mr. obama, and mr. trudeau are the ones with blood already on their hands.
        ………………………………….

        Ignore those 32,000+ Jihad terror attacks–nothing to see there…

        Good grief.

        There is no doubt that clueless leftists are enabling Muslims flooding into the West–and no doubt how dangerous this is. But to claim that Islam is not a threat and that leftists are intent on massacring Muslims is simply ludicrous.

  3. tgusa says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    So now it is the Grinch, I thought the media was sure PDT is the embodiment of Hitler? According to the left in America President Trump is Hitler. According to the lefts islamic allies Hitler was a good guy and someone worthy of palling around with. It is beginning to get very confusing out there. It is enough to give a sane person a bad case of whiplash.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Dec 26, 2017 at 5:03 pm

      But Israel is Hitler too, so if the Donald is also Hitler, the two of them working together makes it, like, Hitler squared…..woah….

      Remember “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey”, where there was that alien creature that usually existed as two separate beings, but could merge itself to make one big, super intelligent version of itself?

      That’s what this is.”Staaaation!”

      • tgusa says

        Dec 26, 2017 at 5:12 pm

        LOL.

        The new abnormal.

        In April of 1945 Hitler escaped Germany and found his way to Israel, oh wait!

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Dec 28, 2017 at 1:38 am

          You’re on to something.

          Perhaps it’s hitlers head that is being used as Israel’s magic 8 ball, a la “That Hideous Strength” by CS Lewis, which would make sense all of their obviously Nazi like behavior and the also obvious dramatic increase in Jewish population….oh, hang on……

  4. CRUSADER says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 4:59 pm

    Wishing Israel a happy commemorative celebration of 70 years as a modern state. (1948-2018)

    L’Chaim !

  5. Wellington says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    The real Grinch, the true Grinch, the Grinch over the centuries which has stolen Christmas, goes by the name of “Islam.”

    By now one knows this or should know it. Many don’t. Like the Clintons. Like the Bushes. Like the last four Prime Ministers of the UK (Blair, Brown, Cameron and May). Like virtually all of the present Democratic Party of the United States. Like a good portion of the present Republican Party of the United States (e.g., John McCain——-hey, “It’s the Islam…..”). Like that fool of fools now leading Canada to a lesser place, one Justin Trudeau. Like the current pontifex maximus of the Roman Catholic Church, one Francis I (frankly, this guy is an embarrassment to the best of the Catholic tradition and one knows this by now or should know it). Like that very limited man now leading France, one Macron. And who could leave off of this “wonderful” list perhaps the single most destructive person to Western Civilization in our time, the present Chancellor of Germany, Merkel by name. And let’s not also forget the previous POTUS, that monumental fool, that rank apologist for the worst religion of all time, one Barack Obama.

    A lot of “likes” here. A lot of fools here too. And Western Civilization, the very civilization which pioneered more freedoms and more achievements (examples being democracy, the invention of philosophy {and if you don’t know that the West invented philosophy this in and of itself says something not laudatory about you}, the scientific method, the realization that slavery was a deep wrong before any other civilization or society did so {N.B., the Islamic world still has not realized this, still continues this iniquitous institution to this day and still has not apologized for its much more extensive role in human slavery than the West ever engaged in}), and other good things like women’s rights and great technological inventions that blow away what any other civilization or society ever achieved (think railroads, the telegraph, cars, planes, radio, TV, computers, satellites, et al.).

    Just sayin’. But damn I do very much wish that more people than at present would know what I just presented here. But more don’t. And thus Islam and dhimmi apologists for Islam (e.g., May) still make strides because ignorance, so many times, is so much more powerful than knowledge. Doubt me? Well then, just consider what Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao got away with for so long. I rest my case except to aver that Mohammed makes the four previous wicked persons I just named look like, borrowing a phrase from that very harmful nothing, Obama, merely JV players.

    • Carol says

      Dec 27, 2017 at 10:30 am

      Excellent idea – blowing our own horn far more often, that is!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 27, 2017 at 8:49 pm

      +1

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Dec 28, 2017 at 1:45 am

      For all of those very excellent things, we should collectively be heartily ashamed.

      “Like that fool of fools now leading Canada to a lesser place, one Justin Trudeau eh?”

      He is carrying it Atlas style to a lesser, and much hotter, place yes.

      All hail Justin, the spud of spuds and fool of fools.

  6. Lydia Church says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 7:18 pm

    Okay, more nonsense brought to you by your local BS media!
    All the muslims go around canceling Christmas things like in Nazareth, and they want to accuse Trump of playing the Grinch? The mayor of Nazareth and all the others like him are the Grinch! What balderdash!

    • Carol says

      Dec 27, 2017 at 10:18 am

      Has anyone noticed yet what has happened to this particular Grinch? While inspecting a new facility at his private university in Hungary on the morning of Sunday Dec. 24th, George Soros had a massive heart attack. He survived (and without further brain damage they claim) but maybe God was putting him on warning (I wonder if the U is where he’s having muslims taught how to fill out immigration forms)?
      Why at one point he actually claimed he felt “the hand of God” around his throat! That doesn’t sound too friendly to me:

      BREAKING!! George Soros Suffers ‘Massive Heart Attack’ On Christmas Eve In Hungary
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFtaNg2H6Tc

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Dec 28, 2017 at 1:50 am

        “private university in Hungary”

        His secret lair of darkness, filled with minions to be unleashed upon the country?

        “George Soros Suffers ‘Massive Heart Attack’”

        Someone forgot to wind his mechanical innards up before heading off for the holidays.

        (All joking aside, i don’t actually wish the man dead. It would be better if he came to Christ, than face what’s to come otherwise)

  7. St. Manuel II Palailogos says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    Muslims stole Bethlehem in 642.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 27, 2017 at 8:53 pm

      Grimly true–I think it was actually 637, but this is splitting hairs.

  8. Champ says

    Dec 27, 2017 at 3:51 am

    The media demonizes Trump? Meantime the media gives evil islam a pass …

    Wow take aim at the real enemy: islam!

    Most mohammedans HATE Christmas!

  9. balam says

    Dec 27, 2017 at 5:02 am

    Time has come for America to stop all AID to the Palestinians . They should be given a choice :either to live in Israel peacefully or move to the Muslim countries .Period. That goes for the DHIMMI PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS AS WELL.

  10. Joe says

    Dec 27, 2017 at 7:29 am

    O little town of Bethlehem, you were for 1700 years mostly Christian, but now you are only 1% Christian.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 27, 2017 at 8:55 pm

      Grimly true, Joe.

  11. FYI says

    Dec 27, 2017 at 7:56 am

    The Grinch stole Christmas..

    …but if he ever converts to islam then he will try to destroy Christmas by waging war against those “infidel Christmas trees and Zionist-backed decorations”.

    For this he will need learn(like all converts to the cult of isam) some arabish and adopt a new name…something like..

    Barack Sadaam Ghaddafy bin Laden al Grinch

    The Grinch stole Christmas.
    The al-Grinch declares war on it.

  12. Voytek Gagalka says

    Dec 27, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    They banned Christians on “palestinian” territory? Cause is not (President) Trump as they say; cause is Islam: they DESPISE and prosecute Christians since 1400 years ago. This year is no exception. Another factor helping to spread this nonsense about Trump’s guilt is that Islam absolutely denies cause and effect (everything is only allah’s will, from piece of dust to the whole universe) and thus easily can substitutes the effect for its cause and get away with it.

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