UPDATE BY THE AUTHOR: After Jihad Watch published the original article, I received the following email, which shed further light on the predicament of the Christians living under the thumb of the Palestinian Authority in the Bethlehem area.
I appreciate your work on Jihad Watch.I read the article about Khader Odeh but I would like to add some notes:He is a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, that’s why he is protected.Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades threaten to fire on the police to liberate Khader.He is now in Jail but he receives 5-star service inside the jail.Khader takes his orders directly from someone in the Palestinian Authority who lives in al AlDoha and that person is a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He gives him all the support and provides him with weapons. That person played a key role in islamising Christian girls in Bethlehem Area. And he is a known person. He has a big influence and leads a big group of informants and bullies.Khader is a valuable informant for the Palestinian apparatuses especially the intelligence.Khader leads a big gang of bullies from Aida Camp and sends them for operations against Christian targets. Months ago Khader sent some bullied from Aida camp and thew Molotov cocktails on “Fadi Matar” car in Beit Jala and it was burnt down.Khader is supported by the Palestinian Authority and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
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Palestinian Christians continue to suffer attacks as a result of the Al Aqsa Intifada that started in 2000 when Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat unleashed Fatah militants after rejecting all Israeli peace deals under American sponsorship.
Recently, Khader Odeh, a man from the Palestinian refugee camp Aida near Bethlehem who is connected to the Palestinian intelligence apparatuses, tried to kill the Christian doctor Salamah Qumsieh. He attempted to cut off Salama’s hands, then crushed his head, in violence reminiscent of that of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. The assault took place in one of Bethlehem’s main streets.
Khader Odeh has been terrorizing the Christians in the Bethlehem area for more than four years. He has burned cars and shot at Christian houses. He threw homemade bombs.
This is the second time that Odeh has attempted to kill the same renowned gynecologist in less than a year, but his links to the Palestinian security apparatus have kept him out of jail; nor has he faced criminal charges, at least until this moment.
Some asserted that the attack against the doctor was motivated by vengeance for a medical malpractice case that Odeh’s current wife, a convert to Islam, had incurred. Odeh’s wife is from a prominent Christian family that keeps a low profile. Some distant relatives of his wife allege that Odeh had, before they were married, impregnated his future wife in a rape, so she felt obligated to elope with him and convert to Islam to conceal the shame that commonly prevails in such societies after such heinous crimes. Her family is intimidated by her husband, who also relies on thugs known as El Mawaleh.
After the brutal attack, Dr. Qumsieh needed to undergo a medical procedure that lasted ten hours in order to reconnect veins and tendons in both hands while simultaneously dealing with a neck injury. Graphic video.
The gynecological surgeon, who is 53 years old, experienced permanent damage to his two hands, and will be unable to practice medicine again, due to permanent injuries. This was explained here by the head of the medical-surgical team who operated on him.
In this video, Dr. Qumsieh talks to local media after he went through surgery.
Reliable sources confirmed to this writer that Khader Odeh stood behind a series of terrorist campaigns against Christians in the Bethlehem area, including setting cars on fire and throwing bombs against several houses of local Christians.
It is widely believed that Odeh was behind the desecration of Christian graves and the stealing of the remains of the deceased in the Greek Orthodox cemetery in Beit Jala less than a year ago, as seen in this photo:
Twenty years ago, Fatah gunmen desecrated the same cemetery while they were shooting at Israeli civilians who resided in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem.
The photo below shows crosses destroyed by Fatah militants inside the Greek Orthodox cemetery in Beit Jala near Bethlehem (photos are courtesy of David Blumenfeld, and were taken in 2001).
Sources mentioned that the doctor’s brother refused to receive a phone call from Bethlehem Governor Kamel Hmeid, who attempted to contain the anger that is raging in Christian circles.
Christians blocked the road that connects the Christian town of Beit Sahour (which is the town of Qumseyeh) in protest against this second attempted murder. This video reveals that Palestinian police did not try to stop them for fear of an escalation against the Palestinian Authority by local Christians.
In front of the Holy Family maternity hospital, Qumsieh’s colleagues and the medical staff demonstrated in protest against the Palestinian Authority’s security apparatuses, which did not defend the medical staff in general; it has also been an active target of attacks by disgruntled medical care recipients.
Johnny Jildeh, a Ramallah-based social media activist, criticized Christian clerics who often remain silent when attacks against Christians take place. On his Facebook page, he angrily stated: “What happened today in Bethlehem to Dr. Qumsieh is the outcome of clear corruption inside the Palestinian security apparatuses. We, the Christians, are not safe in light of the presence of this corrupt authority which also practices cronyism. We all are violated, without exception, and the reason is the silence of the church and the clerics in regard to what is happening to us.”
This is also one of the reasons why there has been a widespread desire among Christians to immigrate from that part of the world. “We ask the clergy: if you are unable to protect your people, close the churches and help us immigrate,” Jildeh concludes in his post.
While living in Ramallah, Johny Jildeh may be living under the thumb of the Palestinian Authority, but since he is an Israeli citizen, his actions do not pose a danger to him, due to the fact that Israel protects its citizens regardless of their religion or location.
It is commonly known that radical Muslim groups have provided financial support to Palestinian Muslims for the purpose of buying Christian properties, while some suspect that Odeh’s actions are part of a well-planned effort to force Christians to sell their properties and leave.
The Palestinian Islamic Waqf, on the other hand, has always stressed that no properties can be sold to Christians, which means that the Christian demographic expansion has come to a permanent halt in the birthplace of Christianity.
Furthermore, in the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority, which projects a secular image while its actions are predominantly Islamic, Christians have always lived in constant terror, while remaining unable to openly discuss their dire situation.
It should be noted that recent attempts of Christians to obtain Israeli protection have been met with Israeli denial. There are several reasons for this. The Bethlehem mayors openly refused to accept Israeli protection in 1995 prior to Israel’s withdrawal. PLO activists’ death threats have always restricted many Palestinians in general from speaking their minds, whether about Israel or Jordan.
Due to Muslim zealotry among Palestinians, many Christian Palestinians constantly find themselves forced to seek political asylum in the United States and the Scandinavian countries, while many dhimmi priests shamelessly blame Israel.
Part of the current agony, ordeal and menace the Christians in the Middle East live with and face is caused by the presence of Muslim apologists, who labor tirelessly to find justification for Jihadi propaganda and block the voices of conservative writers.
Samir A. Zedan is a former Senior Counter-Terrorism Analyst at the US Department of State, and a former Development Outreach and Communication Specialist at USAID/Iraq. He has contributed to hundreds of articles published in major media outlets with assignments in the Palestinian Areas, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Europe.
mortimer says
God bless and defend Dr. Qumsieh. God restore him to full health.
gravenimage says
+1
Lion heart says
And yet our western media including in Canada where I am from never munition these Islamic atrocities and terror against Christians but they are professional in demeaning white peoples ad white supremacy and making propaganda for Muslim in Canada and in the West in general and I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq. God bless this Christian doctor and all Christians around the globe .
Brando says
This is a good moment to state WHY Western civilization is different,as an agnostic I learned it is because of the influence of Jesus the Nazarene:
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL
JEFFERSON(who was NOT a Christian),in the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, said:
“We hold these TRUTHS to be SELF-EVIDENT,
that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”
ISLAM AND BUDDHISM
1.BOTH say humans have SOULS, but,but according to Jesus, humans have souls made in GOD’s IMAGE( something denied by Islam and Buddhism)
2.It is in GEN 1:27:
“So God created MAN in his OWN IMAGE, in the image of God
he created them; MALE and FEMALE he created them.”
3.Also in the GRECO-ROMAN religions,humans also had souls,but it was NOT one in the Image of God.
From there non-Christian Western intellectuals were subconciously/indirectly influenced to say ALL humans of whatever country had Equal Intrinsic Value.
PLUS
In the NT Jesus is definitely said to be God Incarnate,so in:
GALATIANS 3:28
“There is neither Jew nor Greek,
slave nor free,
male nor female,
for you are ALL ONE (equal) in Christ Jesus.”
Which expresses the EQUALITY of believers (plus the fact they are in the Image of God)
Also:
COLOSSIANS 3:11
“In Christ there is
not Greek and Jew,
circumcision and uncircumcision,
barbarian, Scythian,
slave and free;
but Christ is all and in all.”
Brando says
I forgot to add that the the US CONSTITUTION was created in 1787 but MORE than 20 years EARLIER was:
THE CORSICAN REPUBLIC and its CONSTITUTION
Corsica under its leader and president PASQUALE PAOLI ( 1725-1807 ), declared its independence from GENOA and from 1755 to 1769 ( 12 years ) was an Independent country,
till it was conquered by FRANCE.
SO?
1. It was the FIRST country and constitution to be created based on ENLIGHTENMENT PRINCIPLES ( it beat the US to it)
The PROOF:
Written by Paoli, Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU ( Swiss enlightenment intellectual, and Non-Christian), commissioned by the Paoli, later wrote “Projet de constitution pour la Corse,” in 1763.
2.It stipulated separation of the EXECUTIVE power and the LEGISLATIVE power.
3.It proclaimed UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE: that is to say,WOMEN also had the right to vote.
PAOLI WAS A DEVOUT CATHOLIC
So it was a Christian who created it all,later Paoli was exiled and died in LONDON in 1807.Cynics would say Paoli PRETENDED to be Catholic for political reasons,but:
he was BURIED in a CATHOLIC cemetery in London.
Anybody who knows about it all knows: to have the RIGHT to be buried in a CATHOLIC cemetery you have to have died taking the LAST SACRAMENT from a PRIEST.
Or if the death was sudden,the priest would investigate and to see if the deceased had gone to MASS REGULARLY, made REGULAR CONFESSION, etc.
gravenimage says
Good post, Brando.
John says
You can count on this muderous vermin to be out in no time at all… With the blessing of the Palistinian Government, which the US, in large part, funds….
gravenimage says
Too true. John.
gravenimage says
Palestinian Authority: Muslim with long record of terrorizing Christians tried to kill noted Christian physician
…………………….
Just horrifying–this poor man.
Never mind that most of this doctor’s patients were probably Muslim…
Abu George says
I am a Christian from Bethlehem. I wan to tell you that the Doctor is completely innocent he didn’t anything wrong!
Khader Odeh keeps terrorizing Christians in Bethlehem.
He burnt houses and cars of innocent Christians and forced them to pay Jizya.
The criminal is backed by the Palestinian authority
gravenimage says
Thanks for your account, George.
OLD GUY says
Not being an attorney, I have a question about state rights. Biden’s open borders and the lifting of the travel ban on islamic/muslim countries allowing them to enter America, can the individual states control their borders and not allow these migrants into their state based on them being a danger to the states citizens?
James Lincoln says
OLD GUY,
I am not an attorney either.
But I think that once a person is in the United States legally, they can choose to live wherever they want to. This applies to both muslims and Leftists.
Very different from the EU, where countries like Poland and Hungary can at least keep muslims out.
Maybe a Jihad Watch reader who is an attorney could weigh in…
gravenimage says
Some states enforce immigration law more rigorously than do others, but I don’t believe that a state can enforce laws that contradict federal law.