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ChicagoTeamster

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14. The orthodox attack Christian tourists, bar entrance to Christian holy sites like Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:54 AM
Apr 21

The occupied West Bank Christian village of Taybeh, known as the entirely Christian Palestinian town, has faced repeated attacks by illegal Israeli settlers targeting nearby religious and historical sites.

The historic Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza has been attacked by the Israeli military.

On July 2025, an Israeli strike hit the Holy Family Church compound, Gaza’s only Catholic church.

There are also Baptist churches and other denominations in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank that have been attacked and also the visits of Christian tourists have been obstructed and interfered with by extremist settlers.

In Israel's attacks on southern Lebanon, damage has been done to St. George Church in Yaroun, a there were reports of a fatal strike on St. George Melkite Catholic Church in Derdghaya.

In short, certain elements of Israeli society along with the Netanyahu government itself are hostile towards non-Jews in Israel and in the surrounding territories. Their goal of expanding greater Israel into surrounding countries is not only in violation of the Hague and Geneva convention prohibitions against aggressive war, it's based on Zionist beliefs that God granted them almost all of the middle east because Abraham came out of Sumeria (Iraq), the Israelites wandered in the Sinai after being freed from Egypt so they get all of that too. Their logic borders on racism. If the descendants of the Vikings in Europe and the various tribes that became Germany and the Italian descendants of the Romans all did that Europe would have been blown up a long time ago.



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Couple of things: no_hypocrisy Apr 21 #1
Not going to jump on you, it has been obvious for a long time FakeNoose Apr 21 #13
;-{).... Goonch Apr 21 #2
Worse than a statue ninjanurse Apr 21 #3
Right more uproar for violence applied to an object forgotmylogin Apr 21 #7
It's easier when you don't think of them as people but as animals or vermin. AloeVera Apr 21 #9
I knew a coupe of Christian Palestine. multigraincracker Apr 21 #4
The IDF has been trained as assassins and terrorists with no accountability for war or other crimes. Lonestarblue Apr 21 #5
Can you imagine the outrage from Faux News if Dr. T Apr 21 #6
Rarely is public expiation so ironically framed Prairie Gates Apr 21 #8
They also control the press. No reporter multigraincracker Apr 21 #16
I am an atheist Farmer-Rick Apr 21 #10
Has AIPAC issued guidelines re: how to respond to this yet? Orrex Apr 21 #11
Of all the things the Israeli government and military are doing, this is not the one that most concerns me. Scrivener7 Apr 21 #12
The orthodox attack Christian tourists, bar entrance to Christian holy sites like Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre ChicagoTeamster Apr 21 #14
Meanwhile they have destroyed mosques that date back to Roman times. You don't hear much about that. Martin68 Apr 21 #15
THIS is what "outrage" grows over? Not ethnic cleansing? Not mass killing? maxsolomon Apr 21 #17
Melded-Faiths? czarjak Apr 21 #18
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