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2006-12-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by .com 2006-12-18 01:46|| || Front Page|| [11142 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Part I:

For some reason, a submission utterly devoid of any long URL's got RSAd. Therefore, I'm going to try and post this in two or three separate parts (all due respect to Rantburg), to avoid any such further inconvenience.

Life for Palestinian Christians such as 50-year-old Joseph has become increasingly difficult in Bethlehem - and many of them are leaving. The town's Christian population has dwindled from more than 85 per cent in 1948 to 12 per cent of its 60,000 inhabitants in 2006. There are reports of religious persecution, in the form of murders, beatings and land grabs.

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Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-18 03:51|| 2006-12-18 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Part II:

Hookay, we're onto something here. Evidently, the next passage contains something extremely sensitive:

Jerusalems only hope lie in one of two places. Either it is subjected to multinational government, just as post-war Berlin was, or it must remain under Israeli control. Previous Palestinian treatment of the Church of the Nativity proved for once and all what awaits Islamic rule of a location containing so many Christian shrines. Anyone who doubts this should refer to how the Palestinians turned the Wailing Wall into a urinal.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-18 03:55|| 2006-12-18 03:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Part III:

This is too strange. Evidently my reference to a particular baseball player is getting me RSA'd ... or evidently not.

Muslims are no more qualified to govern an historic religious zone than Charlie Hustle is suited to manage a ...

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-18 04:11|| 2006-12-18 04:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Race track (to use another less sensitive adjective). [Got it.]

For those of you who think that I am anti-Christian, please know that the above is a position that I have maintained for many years before arriving here at Rantburg. One only need examine how Muslim archaeological activity is threatening to devastate the entire Temple Mount, al Aqsa Mosques Dome of the Rock and all.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-18 04:13|| 2006-12-18 04:13|| Front Page Top

#5 So, the sensitive word is Ca ... akkkkk!!!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-18 04:14|| 2006-12-18 04:14|| Front Page Top

#6 The West continues to bend to Muslim pressure. Again, while we are allowing those vulgar savages into our countries, they exclude and persecute Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-18 06:02|| 2006-12-18 06:02|| Front Page Top

#7 The sense of a creeping Islamic fundamentalism is all around in Bethlehem.

Make that, "all over the world". And supported by ever Christian hating liberal. Why?

Because Islam hates Jews and Christians and so do liberals. If they weren't already, the Pig skin bound quran turns arabs into animals, liberals love animals...

And where is the UN outrage?! Personally I'm waiting for this whole thing to turn into a much needed Crusade. Cause folks that's what the Kaaba rounding Meccans are doing to us.

Time to Cowboy up!

Posted by Icerigger 2006-12-18 08:44|| 2006-12-18 08:44|| Front Page Top

#8 The West won't wake up until there's a mushroom cloud on our soil. And we won't be able to strike back definitively because: a.> we won't know whodunnit; b.> we can't stop smoking from the crack pipe that is oil dependence.

Posted by Jump Wheatch9614 2006-12-18 09:13|| 2006-12-18 09:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Every time I hear Muslims bleat in the press about their religion being insulted by the West, I think of Palestinians thugs crapping in the Church of the Nativity. It is time that the rest of the world realizes that Islam is a scourge. Muslims cannot and will not coexist with their fellow men. Given that, we should realize there are no good muslims and they should be eradicated root and branch.

Israel should deal with Gaza and West Bank the way Stalin dealt with the Kulaks in the Ukraine. Seal it off. Shut off the water, food, and electricity. Come back in the Spring to clean up the mess. It is not a particularly Christian sentiment, but the Crusaders should have have dealt with the Muslims the way the cavalry dealt with the Indians. These goat abusers should have been and should be wiped off the face of the earth.

Posted by Random Thoughts 2006-12-18 09:43|| 2006-12-18 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Kick all muslims out of Israel. Kahane was right.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-12-18 10:00|| 2006-12-18 10:00|| Front Page Top

#11 "religious persecution, in the form of murders, beatings and land grabs."

Ah, the Religion of Peace at work.

Hey dimwits in State and the Presidnets office, wake up!

Posted by OldSpook 2006-12-18 13:50|| 2006-12-18 13:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Two months ago, he was beaten up by a gang of Muslims who were visiting Bethlehem from nearby Hebron and who had spotted the crucifix hanging on his windscreen.

Kinda puts a nail in the old time religion's view of Jesus being a "good prophet," eh? Now, we see what they truly feel about Him.

On a side note, Mrs. BA and I went to see "The Nativity Story" this weekend. Very well done, but I couldn't help but think about the very thing described...last year's raid on The Church of the Nativity. How the Paleos acted like animals in a religious structure, but we can't even return fire when they use it as an ammo-dump and weapons cache. My, oh my, how the Savior must weep over what's become of his "hometown."

Posted by BA 2006-12-18 15:20|| 2006-12-18 15:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Hope it doesn't end up like past troubles in Indonesia and parts of South Asia, where local Muslims = Muslim Gubmints used or condoned force and violence to PREVENT NON-MUSLIMS FROM LEAVING BECUZ 'TWAS THE ONLY ECONOMY THEY HAD.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-18 21:46|| 2006-12-18 21:46|| Front Page Top

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