The priest should leave and let the Israelis do what they have to.
By increasing tensions inside the church (which the Israelis are now invading in a psychological sense) this tactic heightens the danger of the clergy inside (consistent with earlier attempts to force them from the complex), and significantly heightens the risk of a violent breakout, giving the lie to the Israeli claim that they want to make peaceful arrests, and needlessly risking lives on all sides, as well as God's house.
See above as to the "danger of the clergy" They are either in there voluntary, in which case it is "You are either with us or..." you know the rest, or they are hostages to be rescued. Which is it?
As t the issue of that being "God’s House" I advise the reading of St. John 4:21-24. We do not even know for sure if this was where Jesus was born. Even if we did, So what? The idea of “Holy Sites” is not to be found in the New Testament.
I do not find that superstition is a good reason for attempting to protect murderers.
a.cricket*Donning flame proof suit*
The clergy in the church have testified numerout times that they're not hostages, as have others on the outside. If such statements were being made only for public consumption, it wouldn't explain the vehemence from the Vatican and Rome that the Israelis need to back off.
You appear to have surrendered to the secularist notion that all right and all law come from men. You're wrong there too.
That wasn't much of a flaming, was it?