Special Thanks to Pookie18 – Today’s Toons 12/26/12
Posted on 12/24/2012 12:44:03 PM PST by Olog-hai
Every Christmas eve, you can count on several foreign correspondents in Israel to produce their annual bash-Israel-for-Christmas articles. These propaganda pieces usually focus on the plight of Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem, laying the blame on Israel for the dramatic decline (from perhaps 70 percent to under 25%) in the number of Christians in that city.
Earlier this year, in April, CBS’s Bob Simon produced a masterpiece of mistruth on “60 Minutes” in which he indicted Israel's “occupation” and its security fence for the decline of the Christian population in the entire West Bank. Yesterday, the slam-Israel doozy of the year was published by Harriet Sherwood in The Observer. …
The screeds published by Simon and Sherwood seek to demonize Israel and its security fence as a way of covering up for the real reasons behind Christian decline in Bethlehem: the Palestinian Authority and radical Islam. Neither of them has the courage to report the truth: that radical Islam, and not checkpoints or a security fence, is the main threat to defenseless Christians not only in Palestinian territories, but across the entire Middle East. …
(Excerpt) Read more at israelhayom.com ...
The decline of Christianity in Bethleham IS Israel’s fault.
Israel should never have given up that (or any other) part of Israel/Judea to the rabid Muslim terroristas.
It’s the left that wanted Israel to withdraw in the first place. The left wing in Israel prevailed in that case. I don’t blame Israel as an entity like Bob Simon and Harriet Sherwood do, nor should anyone else.
Yes. Agreed.
Regardless if it is the left wing or the right wing or the front wing or the back wing, Isr needs to build up, not give away, its land...
Let the many (but not all) in our nations display their increasing, contemporary attitude. Let them become even more rapidly proud.
The current issue of National Geographic has an agitprop piece about the Gaza weapons tunnels. Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah, all.
Thanks Olog-hai.
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