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