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Title: Christmas cancelled: US Palestinians feel no holiday joy amid war on Gaza
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URL Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023 ... o-holiday-joy-amid-war-on-gaza
Published: Dec 13, 2023
Author: Ali Harb
Post Date: 2023-12-14 22:54:40 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
Keywords: Israel - Hamas War, Zionism
Views: 843
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Christmas cancelled: US Palestinians feel no holiday joy amid war on Gaza Christian Palestinians in the US are muting their holiday celebrations as they mourn the ongoing suffering in Gaza. Washington, DC – Huwaida Arraf’s house is usually the most brightly decorated in her Michigan neighbourhood at Christmastime. But this year, with war raging in Gaza, the Palestinian American human rights lawyer is hanging only one sign in her front yard: “Bethlehem canceled Christmas because Israel is slaughtering Palestinians #GazaGenocide.” Like many Palestinian Christians, Arraf is not celebrating the holiday this year. As the death toll in Gaza soars past 18,600, she and others Al Jazeera spoke to are struggling to enjoy the holiday season. Flashes of happiness — if they come — are often drenched in guilt. “There is really no joy right now — no joy to be had, no joy that can be had,” Arraf, a mother of two who lives in the Detroit area, said. “How can the world really celebrate Christmas and celebrate the birth of the prince of peace, when in the very homeland and the very place that he was born, there’s such atrocious crimes against humanity taking place and nothing is being done to stop it?” Arraf is hardly alone. In the United States, activists and Palestinian Americans are taking cues from Palestine, where many churches and Christian communities have nixed their Christmas celebrations to honour the dead and protest the continuing Israeli violence. Even Bethlehem, considered the birthplace of Jesus in the occupied West Bank, has seen quiet streets and dimmed decorations where ordinarily there would be revellers and light. The Lutheran Church in the city is displaying a nativity scene that shows Jesus as a child born in the rubble to reflect the destruction in Gaza. “If Christ were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble and Israeli shelling,” Reverend Munther Isaac told Al Jazeera last week. “Bethlehem is sad and broken,” he added, reflecting on the sense of helplessness he and other residents feel as bombs continue to rain down on Gaza. Celebrations ‘just very muted’ Thousands of miles away, in the United States, many Palestinian and Arab Americans share that anguish and pain. “There’s no joy. There’s no celebration. It’s hard to celebrate when we have a lot of family and friends and countrymen who are suffering a genocide. It’s just kind of incongruent,” said Nabil Khoury, a physician from southeast Michigan. “So, unfortunately, no Christmas tree this year, and no big gatherings. It’s just very muted.” Christmas traditions are intimately tied to Palestine. The area is home to some of the holiest places in Christianity, including the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in annexed East Jerusalem. For decades, Palestinians have drawn on that history — and the imagery of Jesus — to protest the Israeli occupation of their territories, particularly around Christmastime. Leading human rights groups like Amnesty International have compared Israeli treatment of Palestinians to “apartheid“, noting a pattern of unlawful killing, detention and discrimination. Some Palestinians note, for example, that if Jesus were born today in Bethlehem, the three wise men who visited him in the Biblical story would have to traverse a towering concrete “separation” wall that Israel built, dividing the city from nearby Jerusalem. A nativity scene at the Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank [Munjed Jado/Al Jazeera]... Poster Comment: Videos: Why Are Palestinian Christians Leaving Jesus’ Birthplace? [Pt. 1] (one year ago) Palestinian Christians have been disappearing from the Holy Land for decades, even though this region is where Christianity began. So what’s going on? Dena Takruri goes to Bethlehem to ask the Palestinian Christians who remain. 1:35 Why have so many Christians left Bethlehem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa6igKc1M9s How Evangelicals Betray Christians In The Holy Land [Pt. 2] Dec 12, 2022 #Christianity #Palestine For millions of American evangelical Christians, supporting Israel is a core part of their faith. They believe Israel needs to exist so that the “end times” prophecies and return of Jesus Christ are guaranteed. But what does that support mean for people who share their religion but live under Israeli occupation? Dena talks to Palestinian Christians about the evangelical Christian Zionist movement. 0:50 What is Christian Zionism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHT-SjIM0tA I found both the Videos and comments well worth the relatively short time. It sounds like the horrific genocide and destruction of the last two months is red-pilling some Zionized Christians. 
2:21 How Israel’s occupation affects Christians
5:53 What the West gets wrong about the Holy Land
7:17 This Christian family is fighting Israel to keep their land
11:18 A pastor’s prayer to end the occupation
1:49 Why this American Christian has devoted her life to helping Israel
2:40 Christian Palestinians react to Christian Zionists
4:06 What some evangelicals believe the Bible says about the “end times”
7:01 Who’s behind the most powerful Christian Zionist organization?
9:04 Why do Christian Zionists support Israel’s oppression?
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Uhhh, nutcracker is a ballet? “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Dec 14, 2023 #whitehouse #christmas #jillbiden The White House’s annual Christmas video, featuring an avant-garde tap dance performance of a timeless ballet, has been panned by social media critics for its “Hunger Games aesthetic,” as well as called “tacky” and “tasteless.” First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday posted a two-and-a-half minute clip of New York City tap company Dorrance Dance’s take on Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite.” The video features colorfully adorned sequined dancers wearing elaborate headdresses while they tap their way through a White House hallway festooned with candy cane columns to the Blue Room, which is decked out with Christmas trees in both white and colored lights alongside Nutcracker-inspired décor. The wild artistic statement, which the first lady said contained “magic, wonder, and joy,” left many commenters’ heads spinning, with several pining for the easier-to-digest patriotic-themed Christmas video posted in 2020 by then-first lady Melania Trump. I had to check it out to see if it was photo-shopped by Babylon Bee. Nope. And I enjoyed some of the comments. So then for the hell of it, I checked to see if the White House was another one of those buildings with a Judeo-Masonic cornerstone... Yup. www.facebook.com/WhiteHou...portant-/260043335815298/ The god of Judeo-Freemasonry is Lucifer, so this display of crassness and blasphemy is not totally surprising. Jesus said the hidden things of darkness would be brought to light before he came again, so as the T-shirt says, "Normal is not coming back. Jesus is." Fox News response: Jesse Watters: Did the White House switch from ‘cocaine to acid’ for Christmas? Dec. 15 Jesse Watters discusses how the Biden White House decked the halls and celebrated Christmas a little differently this year and the Boston mayor's 'no Whites' party on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY18RVAmCBg (Melania's Nutcracker vs. Jill's.) "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Social Media Users Roast Jill Biden After Releasing ‘Tacky, Tasteless, and Anti-Christmas’ Ads at the White House (VIDEO) www.thegatewaypundit.com/...ll-biden-after-releasing/ WTF: Jill Biden DECORATES White House W/ COVID-19 Molecules | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5 (VIDEO) www.thegatewaypundit.com/...ates-white-house-w-covid/ ================================= I checked to see if the White House was another one of those buildings with a Judeo-Masonic cornerstone... Yup. www.facebook.com/WhiteHou...portant-/260043335815298/ The god of Judeo-Freemasonry is Lucifer, so this display of crassness and blasphemy is not totally surprising. Jesus said the hidden things of darkness would be brought to light before He came again, so as the T-shirt says, "Normal is not coming back. Jesus is." 11This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”… Berean Standard Bible The House on the Rock …47I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them: 48He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”… Berean Standard Bible "What a jolly, jolly Christmas" "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
When I lived in Chicago, I knew this Palestinian kid named Tony. Everyone called him Camel Tony. His family lived in a basement apartment near me. He was in trouble with the cops frequently. He is also the reason I can swear in Arabic. LOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
LOL! :)
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Others described it this way: BIDEN’S DEVIANT, TRANSGENDER, GAY, DIVERSE, MENTALLY ILL CHRISTMAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE www.theburningplatform.co...stmas-at-the-white-house/ Video proof that Satan now resides in the White House with his many infernal minions. Posted on December 15, 2023 by State of the Nation ( stateofthenation.co/?p=199991 ) VIEW HERE: defiantamerica.com/side-b...esus-which-do-you-prefer/ "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
In other words, just another day. Pastor Chuck Baldwin called out this article. It was within an article Entitled: THE TRULY TERRIBLE ISM THAT TRUMPS EVERY OTHER ISM Posted on December 15, 2023 by State of the Nation ( stateofthenation.co/?p=199928 ) SOTN Editor’s Note: The following piece by Dr. Chuck Baldwin presents the single best explanation for what’s really going on across the planet — BY HIGHLY PURPOSEFUL DESIGN — as a result of the 10/6 false flag terror operation perpetrated by Israel against its own citizenry. So remember that critical data point: the IDF and MOSSAD carried out the so-called Hamas ‘surprise attacks’ in order to justify the launch of the Palestinian Holocaust and ongoing Gaza Land Grab. Even though we staunchly disagree with the 3 woke female Ivy League presidents on virtually everything else, they’re official positions on the Israel-Hamas conflict is right on target. And they know that the nauseatingly self-righteous Elise Stefanik was appointed as the female Zionist Neocon in the House tasked to lead the ‘anti-Semitic’ witch hunt by setting them up with her prosecutorial cross examination during the congressional hearings on anti-Semitism. Whether conservatives believe it or not, those three presidents were defending the First Amendment right of their university students to zealously protest the barbaric genocide in Gaza—a naked genocide predicated by Netanyahu’s transparent false flag operation. So to be very clear, it an atrocious and continuing mass murder of Palestinians currently taking place as they are being forced off their ancestral lands; not a fake Israeli genocide. If all American Patriots don’t get this, then everything is lost. The Republic is finished. Of course, the much larger point here is that this is how the whole game has been set up for at least the past 125 years by the Khazarian Cabal. The main rule of that game being that Zionism is the undisputed king of ISMs (until now, that is). Basically the global monopoly board has been set up so that any dictator or petty tyrant can run their game — their. chosen ISM — any way they want to as long as Zionism reigns supreme at the end of every day in their fiefdom. When they fail to that…… GOP calls to strip Harvard of billions in federal cash, tax breaks over ‘antisemitism shame’ And, the Khazarian banksters have fastidiously put into place all of the necessary financial and economic enforcement mechanisms (see preceding link) which have heretofore ensured compliance with the agenda of Zionism. In this way, the whole world has been carved up into what are essentially crime territories run by all sorts of hidden mob bosses and mafia dons each of whom kisses the ring of their Zionist masters above all other allegiances. See: The whole world is carved up into organized crime territories run by these top-tier Mafia families... [[[and it goes on from there]]]... "...Evangelical Churches Yes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla is in EVERY room in America, and that includes the communion room, choir room and “worship” center of most of our evangelical churches. Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – The churches of Palestine have announced the cancellation of all festive Christmas celebrations in an expression of unity with Gaza and rejection of the ongoing aggression against Palestinians, limiting them to masses and prayers. In Bethlehem, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity scene would reflect the reality of children living and being born in Palestine today, placing the symbolic Baby Jesus in a manger of rubble and destruction. It is a poignant representation of the suffering of Gaza’s children who find themselves buried under what is left of their own homes, victims of relentless Israeli bombardment. “If Christ were to be born today,” Reverend Munther Isaac said, “he would be born under the rubble and Israeli shelling.” I urge readers to watch my message from last Sunday on this subject. ( libertyfellowshipmt.com/N...-Of-Israeli-Bombings.aspx ). “This is a powerful message we send to the world celebrating the holidays.” Two weeks ago, Isaac delivered a letter from the churches of Bethlehem, a city of significant religious importance, to the US administration in Washington, DC. The letter urged US President Biden, the US Congress and heads of US churches to apply Christ’s message rejecting injustice and called for an end to the genocidal war in Gaza. “Some people in the West forget the existence of Palestinian Christians. This war affects everything Palestinian, whether Muslim or Christian. It is our responsibility now to raise our voices as a nation to stop this war,” Isaac said. Continuing, he explained how saddened he was by several conversations he had in the US where he was told that Israel’s assault on Gaza was justified as self-defence. However, he added, the thousands of children and innocents killed daily, and the churches and hospitals being bombed do not figure in their calculus. (Source) Hollywood, Washington, D.C., New York City, Wall Street, the Pentagon, the Federal Reserve, most public colleges and universities and 80% of America’s evangelical churches all have one thing in common. All of them are dominated and intimidated by the eight-hundred-pound gorilla. © Chuck Baldwin ___ chuckbaldwinlive.com/Arti...lla-Is-In-EVERY-Room.aspx ====================== If I were to vote, I'd vote for a Chuck Baldwin - Thomas Massie ticket. "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Unfortunately, you are right.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
I'm ALWAYS right. Just ask me. ;) Oh No! Satanic Goat Skull Display In Iowa's State Capitol Destroyed [ZH]
Yaaaay!!! Thank you! I saw the headline at SOTN but didn't have a chance to pull it up. Now it's up on my computer so I can read/watch it later. Sadly I don't have time to do it now. "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
I used to be a Liberal. Still am, by the original definition that meant a person that believed in the sanctity of the individual against the power of the the state/church/street gang. I tried to hang on to that fantasy for way too long - I feel like I'm being ethnically cleansed from my neighborhood now. I call Dispatch, get Officer (-----), explain that the stupid fucks next door start their very loud cars at 3:45 in the morning, waking me up due to their just being very loud. Sick of it, Diversity sucks! “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
love you, even though we live in different worlds. My world was awesome until greedy politicians fucked it up, lol. I'm sure your's was too, except you believed the greedy politicians. (kidding, lol I get that you hate greedy politicians too) “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Santa saves Iowa nativity scene from removal over constitutional concerns https://wcfcourier.com/news/state-and-regional/santa-saves-iowa-nativity-scene-from-removal-over-constitutional-concerns/article_b1f675f7-046b-550b-bcc3-b7747cc09c88.html “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
The Angel of Mickee Dolenz surely hates us common trash. “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
I appreciate the huge amount of research you have done, but it seems like I am Amelek as far as Indianapolis city government is concerned. I am a Karen and have no right to peace and quiet in my own home, this is a Mexican province now.
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
When I worked for Illinois State Highways back in the 80s, this big shot Engineer wrote an Op-Ed for the Chicago Tribune titled, I Am A Zionist. He was in the yard once after that. His car was dirty. I wrote WASH ME on it. When he saw it he started jumping up and down and was screaming. They made the yard toady wash his car. ROTFLMAO! "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#2. To: Dakmar (#1)
Critics roast Jill Biden’s bizarre ‘Hunger Games aesthetic’ White House Christmas video
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#6. To: Dakmar (#1)
Critics roast Jill Biden’s bizarre ‘Hunger Games aesthetic’ White House Christmas video
#7. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, 4um (#6)
BIDEN’S DEVIANT, TRANSGENDER, GAY, DIVERSE, MENTALLY ILL CHRISTMAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
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#10. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#9)
Unfortunately, you are right.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#11. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#8)
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#12. To: Esso (#11)
Oh No! Satanic Goat Skull Display In Iowa's State Capitol Destroyed [ZH]
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Oh No! Satanic Goat Skull Display In Iowa's State Capitol Destroyed [ZH]
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