Church of Nativity Gunmen stole gold, crucifixes, escaped monks report

Jerusalem Post ^ | April 24, 2002 | Margot Dudkevitch

[Mr.Clark]

Wait, this can't be true, I don't see it on CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC. The oppressed Palestinians wouldn't do that kind of stuff.

[Diogenesis]

Annan: "We, at the Imperial Holy UN, encourage the use of dynamited-wheelchairs to kill Christians, Jews, or Americans.
We also thank Mr. Arafat for his donated crosses and stunning gold artifacts,
which he sent me and my wife, Nane. Now before you antiterrorists go away,
be sure that you send the reparations YOU owe me and my wife, Nane, to our New York address."

[d4now]

Wait, this can't be true, I don't see it on CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC.

I wish I could bump this to CNN.

[Diogenesis]

CNN?

REALITY CHECK:

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NEW TELEVISION SERIES

The New Destruction of Civilization --- on CNN

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Monday:

A program on 'The Future Destruction of Israel'
narrated by Andrea Koppel and Terrorist Arafat.

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Tuesday:

A startling program on the Destruction of 'Old-Switzerland'.

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Wednesday:

Ms. Fonda Turner returns for 'The Future Destruction of America'

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[Gritty]

How about we commission some murderous thugs to break into the Dome Of The Rock and allow them to trash and steal whatever they want, while taking all the Imans hostage and murdering the muezzin, and then snicker about how they are only looking for "sanctuary"?

Do you think the Muslims would be as outraged as they are about the desecration in the Church Of The Nativity?

[Grampa Dave]

Islam the Religion of peace.

If anyone buys that Bravo Sierra, I have a few bridges in the Bay Area or heck any area to sell you!

It is time to clean out the garbage in the shallow end of the human genome pool.

Any body have any suggestions of where to take out the garbage next, Iran, Iraq or Syria?

[caisson71]

One by one, witnesses to PLA criminal and base acts tell their story and the rest of the world fails to hear them. There is no doubt that the Palestinian cause is bogus and supported only by criminal states.

[cookcounty]

It wasn't on Brokaw (he's in Baghdad, busy being nice to Iraqi student stooges).

[Diogenesis]

"It wasn't on Brokaw (he's in Baghdad, busy being nice to Iraqi student stooges)."

Amazing that he builds up Iraq and Islam,
while in each broadcast slamming Jews, Israel, and Christians.

If I had not seen it, I would not have believed it.

[NativeNewYorker]

That such a high-profile overt desecration of a (the?) Christian holy site can go unreported, because the spin would *help* Israel, is nothing less than frightening.

[Bogey78O]

They were the ones who broke it as "Palestinians sekk refuge from IDF at Church of the Nstivity".

They're delusional. They'd report the holocaust as the largest mass suicide outside of Russia's Gulags.

[Shermy]

Well, it just was reported. Maybe it will be passed around - if the monks are interviewed. Since they are Armenian, not locals. They have little reason to slant there stories.

It would be amazing to believe that nothing like this would have happened. The way I read through the stories, the invasion of the Church was a pre-planned option for propaganda purposes - maybe mistaken in believing it would be a positive spin. There's hard-core terrs in there, regular gunmen, and people who just got caught up in all of it.

[TopQuark]

FYI

[TopQuark]

FYI

[NativeNewYorker]

Given the way CNN/BBC etc have been spinning, it was probably a good bet, from a propaganda point of view.

[pabianice]

Funny. This hasn't been reported in any of the Ted Kennedy press. Must not be true.

[history_matters]

Thanks.