Then it needs to get a moral conscience. And I don't mean the hypocritical one it practises now.
It's been said that the early Christians practised socialism and christianity was a force in the European socialist movements.
Christians in the levant often dress up in disguises, to commemorate Saint Barbara’s ability to escape persecution by disguising herself. They also sing songs dedicated to her, recounting her story and expressing devotion. Another cherished tradition is the passing of every house in the village, where people exchange greetings and blessings. During these visits, traditional sweets and food are shared among neighbors and loved ones.
I need to give Mashjar Juthour credit for this next clip: especially since she has been another voice of Christians in this region.
From the land of Christianity, this Christmas, remember that Jesus’ entire life was committed to preaching against injustice.
Happy Saint Barbara’s Feast Day from the Christians of the Levant!
An advent message from Reverend Munther Isaac who is a Palestinian Christian pastor and theologian. He preaches at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and the Lutheran Church in Beit Sahour. He is also the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, and is the director of the highly acclaimed and influential Christ at the Checkpoint conferences, which is also the name of his blog: https://christatthecheckpoint.bethbc.edu/munthers-blog/. Munther is passionate about issues related to the Palestinian theology.
Yes, there are Christians in the Middle East and the US's support for the state of Israel leads to their persecution. This is bizarre since the same people claim that Christians in the US are persecuted.
And just remember Christ was born in Bethlehem. There's a reason the names of these places sound so familiar, but they are being trashed by the Zionist state. With the help of Christians who support that institution.
I also hoped for change, but it is very slow in coming.
Like the Zionists who say "never again" while doing it again, the Christians who support this need to stop complaining about the persecution of Christians.
He raises some good points for all the prople who are willing to ignore Israel's crimes.
The people who don't know that Israel attacked the USS Liberty for no reason other than to drag the United States into a war in the Middle East. The combined Israeli air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles (47.2 km; 29.3 mi) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.
People who want to claim Israel is the US's "friend" are ignorant of how that friend has abused the United States.
I've been asking this for a while, as have Palestinian Christians.
“Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.
This is from Matthew 7:12. He also said something like "God blesses those who work for peace,for they will be called the children of God."
But back to the "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", which is found in other religions and is called "the rule of reciprocity".
So, the basic gist is that it has to apply to EVERYBODY if you are going to say "Never again".
You don't like it when it happens to you, don't do it to others.
Suffering a holocaust and then turning around to do it to another people is a violation of this principal. Likewise, contributing to the holocaust by failing to save lives because they would go somewhere other than Israel is wrong.
Do you want me to speak out if there is another holocaust? Or do you want me to remain silent as you are trying to do with the Palestinians?
I believe that the "new Israel/Jerusalem" is something which needs to be a divine creation. And it's a blasphemy if humans try to interfere in the process.
Remember that you are killing and harming Arabic Christians by supporting these wars.
And maybe you need to stop dovening and start effing thinking.
So, don't bitch about Muslims in your country: especially if you are supporting the wars that bring them to you.
I am talking about the Christian Zionists who support Israel for whatever their misguided reasoning happens to be. This is despite the plethora of evidence that the Zionist state attacks Christians.
FYI, since people in the US happen to be ignorant as hell: The Levant is the cradle of Christianity. This is a definition of the Levant:
an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term Middle East. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a stretch of land bordering the Mediterranean Sea in western Asia: i.e. the historical region of Syria ("Greater Syria"), which includes present-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories and most of Turkey southwest of the middle Euphrates. Its overwhelming characteristic is that it represents the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia. In its widest historical sense, the Levant included all of the Eastern Mediterranean with its islands; that is, it included all of the countries along the Eastern Mediterranean shores, extending from Greece in Southern Europe to Cyrenaica, Eastern Libya in Northern Africa.
And the Levant has quite a few Christians within its territory. Although, recent history has seen them emmigrate. This is expecially true in Palestine. This video comes from the Rev. Munther Isaac:
"An Israeli airstrike injured my sister, Fadwa, and my niece, Maria, as it targeted a house next to Saint Porphyrius church in Gaza, killing women and children from our Muslim neighbors.
Saint Porphyrius church community is yet again in danger by the Israeli murderous military"
The Church of Saint Porphrius is the oldest active church in the city. Located in the Zaytun Quarter of the Old City of Gaza, it is named after the 5th-century bishop of Gaza, Saint Porphyrius, whose tomb is situated in the northeastern corner of the church. A church was built on the site as early as AD 425, but the construction of the current church was undertaken by the Crusaders in the 1150s or 1160s; they dedicated it to St Porphyrius.
The church was sheltering hundreds of people when an Israeli bomb severely damaged one of the four buildings in its compound on Thursday evening, causing its ceiling to collapse and leaving dozens trapped under slabs of concrete, according to witnesses in October of 2023.
This is one of many daily attacks on Christians by the zionist regime which some Christians ignorantly suppport.
These people who claim to be Christians need to pray and meditate on how THEY would feel if they were being subjected to this treatment, yet the world did nothing.
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets--Matthew 7:12
Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Galatians 5:14
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
James 2:8
If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
Matthew 22:39,40
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself…
Leviticus 19:18
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
Isaiah 1:17,18
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow…
Mark Hachem is going to teach you some useful Arabic Phrases to celebrate Easter.
Because Jesus didn't look like Errol Flynn.
He was an Arab!
And while we're at it Easter is basically Passover. In fact, it's called Pâques in French, which is the plural of Pâque (or la Pâque juif).
Passover!
I've learned not to trust the stories told by Israel and its supporters.
In this case, Israel's
Channel 13 News, refuted claims made by the military regarding alleged
crimes committed by Hamas, which were published around the world.
The
journalist highlighted a particular incident involving the Kfir Brigade
commander, who spoke to another channel giving detail on events in
Kibbutz Be'eri, alleging the killing of eight babies and an elderly
woman. However, the Israeli journalist said, “Well, no eight babies were
killed in Be'eri, according to the Kibbutz spokesperson and there's no
woman named Jenya in Be'eri.”
Who needs Hamas when you have zionists? Zionists are the real anti-Semites. I mean, just read Herzl! If this keeps on going, I'll do a quiz of who said it: Zionist or anti-Semite for a fun eye opener.
Well, if the goal was for destroying the State of Israel and exposing Zionism, they've done a great job. Israel's hypocrisy of saying "never again" while ethnically cleansing the Palestinians is finally out in the open. Israel's genocide is well documented. And this is going to have a ripple effect throughout the world.
Anyway, the Israeli Occupation Forces do a better job of killing Israelis than any of the resistance groups. I think IOF killed more Israelis on 7 October than Hamas did.
OK, the Western media is covering South Africa's case against Israel for committing Genocide in Palestine in the International Court of Justice. Of course, it's to air Israel's poor response to that complaint.
Israel wants it to be about Islam v the West, but this is the Holy Land. Here is yet another Arab Christian to try and get it through thick western skulls that there can be peace.
The evidence produced by South Africa is pretty overwhelming that Israel is committing genocide. This will probably end up with the extent of the 75+ year ethnic cleansing called the Nakba being revealed.
I don't support terrorism: I support a struggle for national soverignity and the end to ethnic cleansing. I despise that a group can say "never again" to genocide, yet intend that to mean only for themselves. That group has been acting with impunity in disregarding international law.
So, my question to you is: do you advocate genocide?
Under international law, there is no justification for genocide. As as a matter of law or morality, there can be no justification for the lethal collective punishment and commision of the gravest of crimes – genocide – against an entire population. The October 7 attacks do not obviate the US’s corresponding duty to prevent the continuation of the unfolding genocide.
What lsrael's "defence" is an attempt at justifying genocide by claiming self-defence. This will backfire horribly on them since there is no justification for genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. Usually, this also comes from a sense of superiority, which is found in highly nationalistic philosophies, which is what Zionism is.
"We don't hate Jews and fight Jews because they are Jewish. They are a people of faith and we are a people of faith, and we love all people of faith. If my brother, from my own mother and father and my own faith takes my homes and expels me from it, I will fight him. I will fight my cousin if he takes my home and expels me from it. So when a Jew takes my home and expels me from it, I will fight him. I don't fight other countries because I want to be at peace with them, I love all people and wish peace for them, even the Jews. The Jews lived with us all of our lives and we never assaulted them, and they held high positions in government and ministries. But if they take my home and make me a refugee like 4 million Palestinians in exile? Who has more right to this land? The Russian immigrant who left this land 2000 years ago or the one who left 40 years ago? We don't hate the Jews, we only ask for them to give us our rights."
Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, in a 1988 interview on Al Jazeera
Dutch researcher Floor Janssen compared the 1988 charter (and other documents from that period) to Hamas's documents dated 1994-2005. Janssen found a significant shift in Hamas positions from 1988 to 1994-2005:
"come on, let's shell the 140 hostages already."
OK, we need some fun news. And I've long joked about taking the month of December off to celebrate. Toss in there are 12 days of christmas. And if you celebrate Christmas in the Western or Eastern rites, you can drag it out to 24 days!
I have to admit some confusion since I thought the Ukrainian Church was under Rome. It turns out that the Eastern Orthodox Church partially recognizes the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as the only canonical successor of the Metropolitanate of Kyiv, while the Catholic Church recognizes the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as the only canonical successor.
So, 24 days of Christmas it is!
His words need to be out there: especially among Western Christians.
