Posted on 10/20/2023 3:22:55 PM PDT by Morgana
“These Palestinian Christians support Hamas.”
I’ve never heard this before. How do you even know this?
Gaza chose war with Israel. Bad things happen in war.
What are muslims doing in a Christian Church? Using the Christians as human shields no doubt.
Would they? Really?
Would they? Really?
Okay I understand what you are saying. It just sounds like everyone here is okay with an israeli airstike on a Christian Orthodox church just because they are Palestinian Christians.
I don’t know their heart, only God does. I do know that is a Christian House of God and should be seen as such. I do know it was hit by an air strike and everyone here acts as if it’s okay.
Do they? Really? They may not support Netanyahu, but that's another matter.
Gaza elected Hamas to power. Hamas chose war with Israel. War is very ugly, and there is no perfect, precise war.
I fully agree we cannot lump everyone in together, but the fact as I see it is that virulent anti-semitism is rampant in both muslims and Christians in the middle east. And sure, there are Christians in Gaza, but I am willing to bet they are a vanishingly small minority.
The best expression and description of this reality of anti-semitism is in Bridgitte Gabriel’s excellent book “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America”.
She grew up a Christian in Beirut and was a teenage girl in 1975 during the Civil War, so she knows of what she speaks, IMO.
She said the anti-semitism was rampant, codified, baked into the schooling and upbringing of everyone (Muslims and Christians alike) and included everything-the bizarre blood slanders of how Jews use the blood of murdered muslim and Christian children to make pastries and all that nonsense.
She said all kids and their parents just lapped this evil pap up, and it was like breathing the air. She believed it as well, and was frightened and repelled by Jews and the Israeli state.
She had to live for over a year in a bombed out basement of their house, and they couldn’t go outside to even use the bathroom during the day, due to snipers and such.
Her cellar was hit by an artillery shell (I think it was most likely a Christan/Druze shell) and her mother was badly injured. She could get no medical assistance from anyone, and in desperation, went to the Israeli border.
With no hesitation, they took her in, hospitalized and treated her mother with the best available care, equal to that given to any Israeli citizen, gave her shelter, money, food, and clothing.
She was astonished that these inhuman Jewish Beasts with blood dripping from their fangs would treat her and her mother this way.
She realized that she had been lied to and indocrinated from birth with these hideous lies and slanders about Jews, and that everyone in that part of the world had been.
Thus, her book.
I had the opportunity to see her some years back in a very small venue (A Portuguese Club, of all places) as a speaker, and she was astonishingly good. Unafraid, attractive, well dressed, well spoken (and outspoken) it is no wonder they hate her and want her dead. She goes against everything they believe in.
Of course, the whole time she spoke, she had a large muscular guy nearly within reach at all times, and I am pretty certain he was armed.
For good reason.
Oh well…..Hamas should not have started this war.
Some parts of the church date to the Crusader Period, but most of the structure dates to the 19th century. Lot of places in Israel like that.
I’ve known muslims from the middle east and all of them yes here dead set against Israel. Could not stand the Jews.
The Orthodox Christians from the middle east that I’ve known? I’ve never heard they say anything. Then again they were easier to talk to and I had more in common with them. We usually talked about the Virgin Mary or the saints, religious stuff like that.
I did not detect the anger in the Orthodox Christians like I do the muslims.
More CNN lies?
I don’t know how much of this is propaganda 0% - 100%.
But I’m thinking that if I’m a devout Christian, I’m not going to choose to live in Gaza, a pseudo-state run and mostly inhabited by the dregs of the Muslim world that aren’t accepted by any ‘civilized’ muslim nation, and ruled by a terrorist-jihadist regime that hates Christians almost as much as they hate Jews.
Unless I was a really devout evangelistic Christian seeking martyrdom... Gaza would be a good place to go for that.
Right out of the playbook
Next we'll hear the Israelis have bombed the local animal shelter.
I agree with you however you know how our government is about letting Christians immigrate to the US.
With that said I’d welcome the Palestinian Christians.
War is hell and innocents die.
IDF warned all civilians to leave
24 hours prior to the commencement
of their bombing campaign. IDF
cannot be held responsible if
those that decided to stay are
willing to accept the risk of
getting blown to smithereens.
I wouldn’t be sticking around with
bombs being dropped, even if it’s
in a place of worship.
They are Christians. Why do you say so called?
Tell us you don’t care without saying “I don’t care.”
Cinder blocks are not very 19th century. I have pics of the neighborhood from when the French controlled it after WW II. It was a TENT CITY. While there was stuff built there centuries ago, that stuff is gone. Any permanent structures there now post date 1947. During the ‘67 war the Israelis made a road out of the Gaza strip. I have pics of that also. Bottom line is whatever it’s called now, it’s made out of cinder blocks and concrete——not 12th century stone work.
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