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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Palestine Cry: Palestine Cry: Kawther Salam » Europa & Palestine News - Christmas Memories From The Birthplace of Jesus

Palestine Cry: Palestine Cry: Kawther Salam » Europa & Palestine News - Christmas Memories From The Birthplace of Jesus

Palestine Cry: Kawther Salam » Europa & Palestine News - Christmas Memories From The Birthplace of Jesus

The wall of hatred around a Christian house in Bethlehem.

Nine years ago between 20 -27 December, as in several previous years, I moved from Hebron to Bethlehem to participate in the celebrations of the Christmas celebrations and to write about the event. I was staying at the residence of Bethlehem Bible College. Dr. Bishara Awad, Director of the college and his wife Salwa, Dr. Alex Awad, a professor at the College and his wife Brenda, welcomed me as in the previous years. They treated me with great courtesy and concern for my comfort, so much so that I felt as a member of the Awad family and as a welcome guest at the college.
I would leave the college every day and tour around Bethlehem. I would talk with Christians and Muslims, and everybody felt the happiness and joy of the holy Christmas. Muslims were waiting for Christmas exactly like Christians. In Palestine there is no difference between Muslims and Christians, everyone is equal and this tradition is celebrated by the adherents of both faiths. The ONLY obstacle during Christmas and other holidays was and is the zionist occupation, which assassinates the happiness, the joy, and the peaceful life of all Palestinians, Christians and Muslims equally.
Before 1993 and the signing of the so-called “Oslo peace agreement”, the Christmas celebrations were much nicer, much more comfortable than the celebrations I joined later and until 2002. It is sad to be forced to say that the Christmas celebrations under the horrible regime of the Israeli occupation were better than they are nowadays under the Palestinian Authority.

Since the signing of the Oslo agreement and its secret accessories, the demography of Palestine has changed. Everything was changed in TOP SILENCE and with full connivance of the “PNA”, not only in Bethlehem but in all Palestinian cities, towns and villages. The Octopus of the zionist occupation became more dangerous and worse than before with the criminal connivance of the PNA. The theft of Palestinian lands and the expansion of the colonies increased while the Palestinian themselves were happy to establish a useless administration, the “PNA” in return for a bunch of the miserable “VIP” cards for select functionaries and some thousands of para-military gangsters, riff-raff with different nationalities who were trained by several Arab dictatorships – US and UK colonies in all but name – who not-so-secretly befriend israel. (Click on the small images to make them bigger).
The theft of the Palestinian agricultural lands of Jabal Abu Ghnien in Bethlehem, the establishment of the zionist colony “Har Homa”, the division of the Bethlehem-Jerusalem-Hebron main street, the theft of the Islamic the Waqf building of Bethlehem, the ethnic cleansing and illegal appropriation of the northern district of Bethlehem (from the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque in Bethlehem, the so-called “Rachel’s Tomb”, until Jerusalem), the theft of the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque, the closure of the Muslim cemetery near the mosque, the closure of the Aida refugee camp, the apartheid wall and the establishment of the Iron border, these were all result of the so-called “Oslo peace agreement”.
I remember how the Christmas celebrations changed after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority under the Israeli occupation. I remember how much the obstacles for the Christian pilgrims increased each year. The worst Christmas celebrations were those place between 1999 and 2002, when the Christian religious convoy from Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour was halted in the middle of a military base of the Israeli occupation in front of the Bilal bin Rabah mosque which was stolen by the zionists and turned into a synagogue.
I saw the closure of the store of Mr. Michael Potros opposite of the Bilal bin Rabah mosque in Bethlehem. I sat several times at his store waiting for the Christians procession, for the clergymen coming from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas. In 2000, this store of a Christian Palestinian was closed by a military decision. All the surrounding area was declared a “military zone” so that the violent colonial squatters could pray undisturbed at the stolen mosque of Bilal ben Rabah. Mr. Potros and his family were forced to go to hell.
I saw how “Israel” violates the sanctity of the Christmas and how the occupation humiliates the dignity of the Christian clergy. They were all stopped like detainees in front of a military base, established over the territory of the city of Bethlehem, by the depraved soldiers of Israel. They were all waiting for the convoy of Patriarch Michel Sabbah. The manifestations of depravity and hatred were clear to see on their faces, instead of the expressions of Christmas joy and happiness present in the faces of the Christians and Muslims despite all the hardships forced upon them by the occupation.
In all countries of the world religious celebrations are held in peace, not under the tension of colonial occupation. ONLY in Palestine and since over 64 years, Christmas and other religious ceremonies are held under the constant threat of the military occupier and its tight restrictions. If any other nation held the Christmas celebrations under the presence of a colonial occupation, then for sure they would expiate in the sanctity of the ceremonies and they will find their ways to the struggle in order to celebrate the Christmas in peace.
The last time I saw a procession of Patriarch Michel Sabbah, he was humiliated at his arrival to Bethlehem. He was surrounded by armed police with automatic weapons and machine guns riding horses, and accompanied by military jeeps. And I saw him get out of his car at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp in the middle of the colonial zionist soldiers, because he was not allowed to enter Bethlehem in his car. I saw the Patriarch shaking hands with the Christians, standing frightened like inmates of a concentration camp among the armed soldiers in the city of Bethlehem. When I did not hear one word of condemnation from the Patriarch, then or later, for the inhuman treatment of the Christians, for the insults by the jews to the Christian faith at his every entry to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, then I knew what it means to be a hypocrite.
This year, Arte Channel showed a program about Christmas in Bethlehem. They filmed a Christian family from Bethlehem who have a workshop for carving Christmas gifts out of wood. The Camera filmed the lady of the house at home and her ways between the workshop and the church, all of which are far away from each other. The program neatly avoided the major problem, the Apartheid walls suffocating the city of Bethlehem, the hatred of the occupation checkpoints at the entrance of the city, the jewish colonies, the ubiquitous presence of israeli soldiers.
After watching this short film I understood how much the western media is managed and manipulated. I myself know what kind of journalistic work and what kind of questions the Austrian colleagues are asking. When the moderators at press conferences beg the Austrian journalists to ask their questions, they do not ask. I have witnessed such unreal scenes more than once, where none of the journalist present asks anything. Sadly, it is enough for them to use the press releases issued before the conference starts and publish them. I have wondered if they do this because they don’t care or because they fear losing their job if they upset anybody with a question.
Also, this year, like all previous years, the Austrian state TV, ORF, runs a program which shows how Austrian children “bring the light” from Bethlehem to Austria. The same like the Arte documentary described above, they completely avoid the issue of the occupation and that these days Bethlehem is more aptly described as a concentration camp than a city. It is very sad to see how the Catholic Church supports iniquity and grave crimes against humanity with their silence.

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3 comments:

ستيف في فيستا said...

I believe that Archbishop Fouad Twal is now the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Sabbah is now a retired Patriarch. It doesn't really matter, the Latin Patriarchate is totally controlled by the Vatican. What you have to remember about the Vatican is that since the time of the 1958 Conclave to elect a Pope when Pope Pius XII died and especially since the False Council - Vatican II - started under a formal Anti-Pope - John XXIII (the second Anti-Pope by that name in history, but falsely touted as a true Pope) the Vatican has been run by Freemasons and Communists. They are no longer Catholic and no longer Christian, they will be of no help to anyone. No one controlled by them will be of help to anyone.

There is a prophecy in the old testament that is chilling and it has come to pass again in this age, it is this:


Zacharias (Zachariah) 11:15
And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

This is Anti-Pope Paul VI who used to wear a JEWISH EPHOD as part of the Freemasonic Symbols of his that showed he was NOT a Christian.



Zacharias (Zachariah) 11:16
For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of the fat ones, and break their hoofs.

This is Anti-Pope John Paul II (John Paul I was murdered in office after one month). Anti-Pope John Paul II shared his chief controller's (Joseph Ratzinger) destiny in how he was punished prior to his death and commitment to hell by God. Karol Wotyjla (Anti-Pope John Paul II) did more than anyone, until Anti-Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger), to promote the Anti-Christian document concocted at "Vatican II" which is called Nostrae Aetate. That specious garbage makes the Talmudists of Judaism, especially their Rabbis, gods upon earth to be worshipped by all the sheep who have NO earthly shepherd to protect them. It is totally Antichrist in its intent.


Zacharias (Zachariah) 11:17
O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

This is Anti-Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) - this punishment is beginning now and will continue until Ratzinger dies and goes to hell and joins his Freemasonic Antichrist predecessors there, namely all the Antipopes (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI) after Pope Pius XII. It was Joseph Ratzinger (Anti-Pope Benedict XVI) and Karl Rahner and Karol Wotyja (Anti-Pope John Paul II) who were the foremost agents of concocting Nostrae Aetate and the rest of the garbage for the Antichrist to come to power upon earth and rebuild the temple of Remphan where the Noble Sanctuary is now in Jerusalem and try to force all people to worship him – whoever worships the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal, will be damned by God forever.

The Freemasons (the Freemasons are totally Khafir from the Muslim point of view, same as they are from a Christian point of view) are Satanic agents of the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal, and will only cause extreme harm to everyone they can.

May all Christians and Muslims come together to resist all of this and to defend the Palestinian cause and all that God, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, will have us to do, especially pro-life.

Free Palestine.

Stone Iblis to destruction.

Protect children.

Nothing to do with heresy and heretics (khafir).

Gather around Jesus Christ the Messiah and worship God.

ستيف في فيستا said...

This records a small part of the anti-Christian genocide that has taken place in the Holy Land perpetrated by the Jews over the entire period of the Naqba.

The Justice of God: The Truth from a priest from his own writings

ستيف في فيستا said...

May all Christians and Muslims come together to resist all of this and to defend the Palestinian cause and all that God, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, will have us to do, especially pro-life.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

US Special Forces Mass On Syrian Border


US Special Forces Mass On Syrian Border

Posted on on December 14, 2011
Posted: 14 Dec 2011 03:00 AM PST
Following similar reports by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, Israeli intelligence sources confirm that US Special Forces are massing in Jordan on the Syrian border having been transferred from Iraq. On Sunday Edmonds reported that hundreds of foreign troops were witnessed near the Jordanian border village of Al-Mafraq, having moved back and forth between King Hussein Air Base of al-Mafraq and villages adjacent to the Syrian border.

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Following similar reports by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, Israeli intelligence sources confirm that US Special Forces are massing in Jordan on the Syrian border having been transferred from Iraq.
On Sunday Edmonds reported that hundreds of foreign troops were witnessed near the Jordanian border village of Al-Mafraq, having moved back and forth between King Hussein Air Base of al-Mafraq and villages adjacent to the Syrian border.

After interviewing an employee in the London-based office of Royal Jordanian Airlines, Nizar Nayouf also reported that, “At least one US aircraft carrying military personnel landed in the Prince Hassan Air base located about 100 km to the east of the city of Al-Mafraq.”
According to Edmonds, the mainstream media has been eager to keep the movement of the troops under wraps, with one journalist from a major publication being told by his editor that there would be no coverage of the story

The Israeli intelligence outlet DebkaFilehas now backed these reports, stating that, “American special forces troops have been diverted to positions in Jordan opposite a Syrian tank concentration building up across the kingdom’s northern border.”
US troops were airlifted out of the Ain al-Assad air base in Iraq to take up positions in Jordan from Thursday onwards, according to the report.
Instead of returning to military bases in Europe or the Persian Gulf, the troops have lined up directly opposite Assad’s forces 10 kilometers from the Syrian border and have constructed “surveillance towers and army posts in the Jordanian villages of Albaej, Zubaydiah and al-Nahdah.”
NATO powers are preparing a new “humanitarian intervention” on the back of disputed reports that the Assad regime has killed 5,000 pro-democracy demonstrators. Skeptical voices have pointed out that, just like Libya, the so-called protesters are in fact militants attempting to overthrow the government in the course of a civil war.
Just as Al-Qaeda terrorists were used to oust Gaddafi, hundreds of Libyan rebels were airlifted into Syria to aid the opposition in carrying out attacks against government forces.
As we reported last week, the United States has deployed a total of three warships to the Middle East, along with several other attack boats, as tensions in the region escalate. Russia has denied reports that warships it sent to Syrian territorial waters last month were for the purpose of discouraging any potential military strike on the country.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Russia admits supplying Syria with cruise missiles | Mail Online

Russia admits supplying Syria with cruise missiles | Mail Online:


Russia admits defying West by supplying cruise missiles to Syria as U.N. chief says country is in full-scale civil war

  • Death toll in Syrian conflict stands at 4,000
Last updated at 9:24 AM on 2nd December 2011

Violence: President al-Assad has been supplied with Russian cruise missiles
Violence: President al-Assad has been supplied with Russian cruise missiles
Russia last night admitted it had defied the West and supplied Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with a batch of cruise missiles.
Despite warnings today that the country was in civil war and ongoing concerns over terror tactics used against civilians, Moscow will also go-ahead with training the dictator's troops to use the state-of-the-art weapons.
'Supersonic anti-ship Yakhont cruise missiles have been delivered to Syria,' said an informed Russian source.
A total of 72 missiles were ordered by Damascus, but Moscow did not make clear how many had been delivered in the recent past.
'These arms will make it possible to defend Syria's entire coastline against a potential attack from sea,' said another source.
Israel fears the cruise missiles could fall into the hands of Hezbollah militants in neighbouring Lebanon.
The US also sought to halt arms sales to the Syrian ruler after his bloody crackdowns on street protests.
Moscow insists that a deal on the missiles and radar equipment, signed in 2007, is legal under international law.
With instability growing in the region, Moscow may have calculated that by arming the dictator, it reduces the chances of Western intervention in the country.
The revelation came as the U.N.'s top human rights official warned today that Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to take up arms against the the president.
Syrian president Bashar Assad has been trying to crush an eight-month-old revolt against his autocratic rule, but the violence has only intensified.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said the death toll for the revolt stands 'at 4,000 but really the information coming to us is that it's much more than that.'
Heavy arms: A cruise missile similar to those shipped to Syria by Russia takes off during a test flight in the desert
Heavy arms: A cruise missile similar to those shipped to Syria by Russia takes off during a test flight in the desert
'As soon as there were more and more defectors threatening to take up arms, I said this in August before the Security Council, that there's going to be a civil war,' Pillay said, speaking today in Geneva.
'And at the moment that's how I am characterizing this.'
The scathing criticism from Pillay comes as the pressure piles on Assad from home and abroad.
The European Union imposed fresh sanctions on Damascus today, while the Syrian opposition called a general strike inside the country.
The recent spate of economic sanctions from the EU, the Arab League and Turkey are punishing Syria's ailing economy, a dangerous development for the government in Damascus.
Syrian business leaders have long traded political freedoms for economic privileges in the country, where the prosperous merchant classes are key to propping up the regime.
But the sanctions, coupled with increasing calls for strikes, could sap their resolve.
Demonstrators wave green, white and black flags during a protest march against Bashar al-Assad in Khalidieh, near Homs, earlier this week
Demonstrators wave green, white and black flags during a protest march against president al-Assad in Khalidieh, near Homs, earlier this week
Support for the regime: A Syrian woman holds up a copy of the Muslim Koran next to a Christian icons, during a rally against sanctions imposed against by the Arab League
Support for the regime: A Syrian woman holds up a copy of the Muslim Koran next to a Christian icons, during a rally against sanctions imposed against by the Arab League
The new EU sanctions target 12 people and 11 companies, and add to a long list of those previously sanctioned by the EU. The full list of names of those targeted will not be known until they are published in the official journal of the EU tomorrow.
The 27-member bloc also imposed some sanctions on Syria's ally Iran in the wake of an attack this week by a mob on the British Embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capital.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague accused Iran of supporting Assad's crackdown, saying 'there is a link between what is happening in Iran and what is happening in Syria.'
The sanctions came as Syrian troops stormed a village in the central province of Hama, killing at least six people - the latest in what has become daily violence and bloodshed in the country.
It was difficult to gauge how widely Syrians were abiding by Thursday's strike, which activists announced on an opposition Facebook page. The regime has sealed the country off from foreign journalists and prevented independent reporting.
Syria warning: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay
Syria warning: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay
Residents in Syria's two economic powerhouses - the capital, Damascus, and the northern city of Aleppo - reported business as usual Thursday.
But in the flashpoint city of Homs, a resident said that most of the shops were closed, except for those selling food. Homs has been one of Syria's most volatile cities, with increasing clashes between troops and army defectors.
'Few people are in the streets and only about 20 percent of students went to schools and universities,' said one resident, who asked that his name not be made public for fear of government reprisals.
A video posted online by activists showed mostly closed shops in the Damascus suburb of Zabadani, which also has seen large anti-regime protests.
Despite the recent diplomatic squeeze and Thursday's strike, the government has shown little sign of easing its crackdown.
The Local Coordination Committees activist group said security forces swept through the village of Traimseh in the central province of Hama. The group said six people were killed, without giving further details.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said six people were killed and nine wounded in Traimseh. It added that the operation was continuing in the village.
Earlier today the government took local journalists on a trip to the village of Kfarbo in Hama province, where they spoke to the family of a nine-year-old boy who was shot dead in Homs three days ago while he was buying cookies from a shop.
'He was holding a biscuit in his hand not a pistol,' said the child's mother, Georgina Mtanious al-Jammal.
'They have burned my heart.'
She blamed 'armed terrorists' for killing her son.
The shooting is particularly resonant in Syria because the boy, Sari Saoud, was from a Christian family. Christians and other religious minorities in Syria generally support the regime because they feel it offers them important protections.
Syria is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, and many minorities fear they will be marginalized if a Sunni regime takes over. Assad and the ruling elite are from the tiny Alawite sect.


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