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Bethlehem Returns to Peace at Christmas

December 25, 2007 by GayPatriot

All together now, folks…. say it with me:  “It is all George Bush’s fault!”

Christmas Cheer Returns to Bethlehem – Associated Press

Hundreds of Christian pilgrims celebrated Jesus’ birth on Tuesday in the West Bank town where he was born, in an atmosphere made markedly cheerier by the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after years of bloody conflict.

By midday, the ancient Church of the Nativity was packed with tourists waiting in line to see the grotto that marks the traditional birthplace of Jesus.

The visit to Bethlehem was a first for Kiel Tilley, 23, a science teacher from Charlevoix, Mich.

“It’s very powerful and meaningful to me,” Tilley said. “It’s very moving to visit a place which I always read about in the Bible.”

The relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at a U.S.-sponsored conference last month reassured him before his trip, he said.

“I’m always in fear something would happen,” Tilley said. “But the peace process made me feel safer.”

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Filed Under: Bush-hatred, Christmas, Leadership, Media Bias, Post 9-11 America, War On Terror, World History, World War III

Comments

  1. Vince P says

    December 25, 2007 at 7:44 pm - December 25, 2007

    In the Wall Street Journal, a Newsweek editor blamed Israel for the exodus of Christian Arabs from Bethlehem

    It’s the most silly thing I’ve read in a while.

    They actually published a comment of mine.. something I’ve been trying to do for a while because they only publish very few.

    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/responses.html?article_id=110011037

    It’s the 3rd one. On two of these comments it seems they messed up the editing … all of the text is mine dispite appearing as if it’s the editors

  2. Leah says

    December 26, 2007 at 1:30 pm - December 26, 2007

    Vince, congratulation on getting your comment printed!
    Before Israel “occupied” Bethlehem 40 years ago, there were very few Christian tourists to either Bethlehem or Jerusalem. The Jews take over, and suddenly Christians from all over the world feel comfortable going to their holy sites. The Radical muslims take over in the late 1990s with the Oslo accords, and the number of tourists and Christian residents drops – who’s to blame!! The Jooos!
    America is an amazing place, I recently moved to a new house, and my next door neighbor is a lovely Armenian woman. Turns out she was born in Jerusalem. She happened to get married and move to Lebanon the year my family moved to Israel. She would still be living happily in Lebanon to this day, if it weren’t for the fact that when King Hussain of Jordan kicked the PLO out of Jordan, they went to Lebanon and proceeded to destroy that country.
    During her years in Lebanon she visited Israel a number of times and remembers it very fondly. All those years she was growing up under Jordanian rule where chaotic and miserable. She is in her late 50s, but when she was born, right before the creation of the state of Israel, her parents felt much better going to the Hospital in West Jerusalem, rather than the hospitals in East Jerusalem. her birth certificate is entirely in Hebrew.
    But oh yeah, if there are any problems in the middle east, it has nothing to do with the muslims. It’s all because of the Jews.

  3. Vince P says

    December 26, 2007 at 2:02 pm - December 26, 2007

    Leah: I did a little research on the author of the article… He’s been Newsweek’s Religion Editor for like 30 years!!!

    I am not surprised by the bias and outright deception.

    The adversary never slumbers… he’s always at work , engaging in his war against the Jewish people.

    I’m heartened that all the responses to the article were to set the record straight.

    I’m proud of the normal American’s support of Israel. If only our deranged govt would stop betraying Israel or harming its self-defense.

    Have you read Brigette Gabriel’s book about growing up during the Lebanese Civil War?

  4. ILoveCapitalism says

    December 26, 2007 at 4:41 pm - December 26, 2007

    And for today’s it-must-be-read-to-be-believed mis-assigned blame for what’s wrong in the Middle East:

    A female grad student at Hebrew U, named Tal Nitzan, has faulted Israeli Defense Forces for not (repeat NOT) raping Palestinian women:

    …the lack of organized military rape is an alternate way of realizing [particular] political goals… the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences…”

    Hat tip Jawa Report, who hat tips Phyllis Chesler. As the latter wryly puts it,

    Nitzan fails to grapple with other reasons for [the lack of rapes], including the possibility that Israeli soldiers are acting in an ethical and civilized manner.

  5. Kevin says

    December 29, 2007 at 6:12 pm - December 29, 2007

    “Bethlehem Returns to Peace at Christmas”

    Really? Tell that to the priests from various factions who were phsyically attacking each other 2 days after Christmas in the church. Apparently, Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian apostolic priests got into a bloody battle over who would clean the church pst-Christmas.

    I think both sides in the Israel/Palestine conflict can accept blame, but it was palestinian forces who broke up the fight this time around.

  6. Vince P says

    December 29, 2007 at 6:47 pm - December 29, 2007

    >I think both sides in the Israel/Palestine conflict can accept blame, but it was palestinian forces who broke up the fight this time around.

    Well gee.. woudn’t that be because Israel forces dont patrol inside the city… who else would do it?

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