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Israel Apartheid slur (view source)
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'''The real tragedy''': The only way the Palestinians can fulfill their legitimate national aspirations is by reaching an agreement with Israel based on the principle of two states living side-by-side in peace and security. Yet the Palestinian leadership refuses to return to the negotiation table, insisting that its maximalist demands be accepted by Israel in advance. The real tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that at every historical turning point the Palestinian leadership has failed its people. Rather than urging that leadership to change course, HRW has opted to echo some of its baseless allegations against the Jewish state, thus further undermining the prospects of peace.</blockquote>
'''The real tragedy''': The only way the Palestinians can fulfill their legitimate national aspirations is by reaching an agreement with Israel based on the principle of two states living side-by-side in peace and security. Yet the Palestinian leadership refuses to return to the negotiation table, insisting that its maximalist demands be accepted by Israel in advance. The real tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that at every historical turning point the Palestinian leadership has failed its people. Rather than urging that leadership to change course, HRW has opted to echo some of its baseless allegations against the Jewish state, thus further undermining the prospects of peace.</blockquote>
As stated by an elected official:<ref>Divrei hakneset (Proceedings of the Knesset), 2008, [https://books.google.com/books?&id=D-etvuttDykC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%97 p. 13964].
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The ninety-first sitting of the Seventeenth Knesset
[Jan 2008]
L. Shmatov (Yisrael Beiteinu):
Mr. Speaker, Members of the Knesset, The issue at hand today is the government's policy toward Arab citizens in general and residents of unrecognized villages in particular.
I respect the Arab public, I respect the Arab Knesset members. But there are things that must be said. The State of Israel is a state of the Jewish people, it is a state surrounded by Arab states. Just as Arab groups are struggling for their definition and independence, so is the right of Jews to live in their own independent state.
From time to time, cries of humiliation, [sic] and discrimination [sic] of the Arab public in Israel arise and re-emerge here in the Knesset. And I ask, why? Yisrael Beiteinu offered a real solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: support and recognition of a Palestinian entity alongside the State of Israel in exchange for a complete solution to the entire Jewish-Arab problem - what we all know as the exchange of territories.
Last week I heard on the radio about the results of the survey conducted among the Arab public in Israel. The Arab residents of Israel do not want control of the areas in which they live to be transferred to the Palestinian Authority. And I ask: Why? After all, Arab Knesset members keep coming up to the podium and shouting: contempt, discrimination, occupation. So what's your mind? If we Jews are so [supposedly] wrong, and the territories we control belong to the Palestinian people, why do the Arabs of Israel so want to remain under this [supposedly] corrupt and discriminatory regime? God forbid no one talked about transferring or taking people against their will and getting them out of the houses - that's unthinkable, right? Jews are allowed to do this; It is permissible to throw Jews out of the houses. For the Arabs - God forbid. Straight shout: discrimination, racism, discrimination.
It is not at all clear to me who the Arab Knesset members represent - the Arabs of Israel or the Palestinian enemy in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Let's put things on the table. In fact, it is very worthwhile to be an Arab in Israel: you do not have to pay property taxes, build houses without a license, get preference for admission to university, for work, live in a detached house, do not have to live in an apartment building, and most importantly - there is a Jewish government, a very [supposed] bad government. Shout at her all the time: "racists," "corrupt" and more...
If you do not want to, you will move to Palestinian rule, where it will undoubtedly be worse, but there you will not shout "racists." Thanks.</font></blockquote></ref><blockquote>I heard on the radio about the results of the survey conducted among the Arab public in Israel. The Arab residents of Israel do not want control of the areas in which they live to be transferred to the Palestinian Authority. And I ask: Why? After all, Arab Knesset members keep coming up to the podium and shouting: contempt, discrimination, occupation. So what's your mind? If we Jews are so [supposedly] wrong, and the territories we control belong to the Palestinian people, why do the Arabs of Israel so want to remain under this [supposedly] corrupt and discriminatory regime? God forbid no one talked about transferring or taking people against their will and getting them out of the houses - that's unthinkable, right? Jews are allowed to do this; It is permissible to throw Jews out of the houses. For the Arabs - God forbid. Straight shout: discrimination, racism, discrimination.
It is not at all clear to me who the Arab Knesset members represent - the Arabs of Israel or the Palestinian enemy in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Let's put things on the table. In fact, it is very worthwhile to be an Arab in Israel: you do not have to pay property taxes, build houses without a license, get preference for admission to university, for work, live in a detached house, do not have to live in an apartment building, and most importantly - there is a Jewish government, a very [supposed] bad government. Shout at her all the time: "racists," "corrupt" and more.
Israeli governments for generations have tried to find solutions for the Arab public in general and the Bedouin public in particular, and the minister read the data here - how much they wanted to invest in the south, so that the Bedouin and other population can live in houses. But the Bedouin refused because they preferred to live where they live today. If you do not want to, you will move to Palestinian rule, where it will undoubtedly be worse, but there you will not shout "racists." Thanks.</blockquote>
"Israel has an open-door policy that allows church leaders to discuss with relevant government officials and authorities a variety of issues, including preparations for Christmas," and is "currently involved in special preparations for Christmas and its surrounding events and ceremonies in order to enable access to holy places for worshippers while ensuring their health and safety," the statement read.
"Israel has an open-door policy that allows church leaders to discuss with relevant government officials and authorities a variety of issues, including preparations for Christmas," and is "currently involved in special preparations for Christmas and its surrounding events and ceremonies in order to enable access to holy places for worshippers while ensuring their health and safety," the statement read.
"We expect religious leaders to renounce hate speech and invite them to continue the regular and fruitful dialogue with the Israeli government," the Ministry concluded.
"We expect religious leaders to renounce hate speech and invite them to continue the regular and fruitful dialogue with the Israeli government," the Ministry concluded.
[https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/outrageous-false-dangerous-israel-rejects-accusations-of-religious-discrimination-in-entry-to-country/2021/12/19/]</blockquote></ref>
[https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/outrageous-false-dangerous-israel-rejects-accusations-of-religious-discrimination-in-entry-to-country/2021/12/19/]</blockquote></ref><ref>Barry Shaw, [https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/the_truth_about_christians_in_the_holy_land_this_christmas.html The Truth About Christians in the Holy Land this Christmas], American Thinker, December 25, 2021.<blockquote>
Sadly, this Christmas, many Christian leaders must enter into a period of theological soul-searching.
Christian diplomats from once proudly Christian nations failed to oppose the United Nations General Assembly resolution that designated the central holy sites of Jerusalem to be exclusively Islamic property, thereby excising both Jewish and Christian history and the biblical heritage of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
And, following this recent fraud that Israel will never accept, Christian pastors and bishops are now preaching blasphemy against Israelis and the Jewish State.
This Christmas, the Archbishop of Canterbury colluded with the Archbishop of Jerusalem in suggesting that the fate of Christians in the Holy Land is being challenged, not by those who have been threatening Christian existence in once Christian majority towns, but by Israel.
This is nothing short of a barefaced lie. It more than hints of disgraceful replacement theology, a medieval blasphemy against Jews that, sadly, continues by misguided church leaders to this day.
The Archbishops, in an inaccurate and biased article published in the anti-Israel Times newspaper under the dramatic title, “Let us pray for the Christians being driven out of the Holy Land,” more than hinted that Jews were the ones driving Christians out of the Holy Land...
They may be religious leaders. They are certainly not statisticians.
They admit that the Christian population in Israel has grown. Indeed, there are now more Christians in Israel than Druze. Christians have been free to follow their faith and various churches have taken root in Israel including Roman, Armenian, Syriac, Maronite, Chaldean, Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, as well as Anglicans and other Protestants.
Israel protects the only significant population of Samaritans in the world. It is where the Baha'i faith is centered (in Haifa) after being persecuted in Islamic countries, particularly Iran.
And yet, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his colleague in Jerusalem have forged an alliance that picks on the Jews for the persecution of local Christians when, if they were to be truly honest, they would admit that the real danger to Christianity lies in the locations that Israel handed over to the Palestinians to administer, and Bethlehem is a prime example.
When Israel was established in 1948, Christians composed 80% of the holy Christian town. This Christmas, Bethlehem Christians are a shrinking minority, less than ten thousand strong.
They pretend it’s because of Israeli checkpoints. At least this is what the replacement theologians behind the Kairos campaign allege.
Truth is, until Israel handed over control of Bethlehem to the Palestinian Authority the vast majority of local businesses were owned by middle class Christian families who were driven out by the Muslim population who did to the Christians what Arabs had done to the Jews in Arab lands.
In 2006, David Parsons of the International Christian Embassy wrote in a Jerusalem Post op-ed that Christians who remained in Bethlehem “suffer from the same Islamic hostility that is battering Israel, and which views both Jews and Christians as followers of ‘inferior’ faiths naturally destined to be subjugated by Muslims.”
He was referring to the edict of Sheikh Yussef Salameh, the Palestinian Authority's undersecretary for religious endowment, who promoted the idea, in 1999 after Israel had left Bethlehem, that Christians should become dhimmis, second-class citizens "protected" by a majority Muslim administration.
It’s an easy search to uncover multiple Christian tales of persecution by Muslims in Bethlehem.
Why should they treat Christians better than Jews? Bethlehem became a hot bed of Palestinian terror. Multiple deadly attacks were launched from Bethlehem against Jews in Jerusalem and Kiriat Araba. In 2002, when the IDF moved in to arrest the perpetrators of one particular deadly attack, the terrorists took over the St. Mary’s Church, held priests and nuns at gunpoint, and used the sanctuary of the church to open fire on the soldiers. The Israeli soldiers did not return fire and negotiated the safe release of the Christians.
By Christmas 2005, one Italian blogger wrote, “The Mayor of Bethlehem is Christian, but it is Hamas that’s in charge.” [http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/44202%26eng%3Dy.html]
Threats, physical attacks and extortion drove Christians out of their holy town. Their businesses and homes are now occupied by incoming Palestinians.
The Kairos lie alleges that Christians fled because of Israeli checkpoints, but these checkpoints didn’t prevent thousands of Arab Muslims entering the town to usurp the homes and businesses of departing Christians.
This is one fact that the two Archbishops failed to address this Christmas.
This Christian persecution has been repeated in the Gaza Strip ever since Hamas usurped power in Gaza during the Palestinian civil war between this Islamic terror group and Fatah. One result of the Hamas takeover has been that Arab Christians have fled the Gaza Strip, some finding shelter in Israel.
In short. Where Israel handed control over to the Palestinians one direct result has been that Christians inevitably fled. Where Israel retained control, the Christian population increased, prospered and were protected.
This is the truth about Christianity in the Holy Land this Christmas.</blockquote></ref>