“Shame on you,” says Father Jacques Noble-Abed of Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank, referring to US evangelicals who support Israel. “Because this is not the teaching of Jesus in the Gospel.”
The pro-Israel Hudson Institute hosted Johnnie Moore (the Chair of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) this week, but didn’t bother to ask him about the 1000 deaths at his Gaza sites. So I asked him myself.
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As Israel continues its assault on Gaza, US conservatives are taking special note of one form of Israeli belligerence: attacks on Christians in the Holy Land.
The last remaining town in the West Bank inhabited entirely by Christians faces ongoing attacks by Israeli settlers targeting residents and their property.
The US invasion of Iraq devastated the Armenian Christian population there. An Iraq-style war would likewise imperil Iran’s 200,000 Armenian Christians.
Israel’s cultural and political atmosphere can now justify, or at a minimum, tolerate Jewish aggression against Christians. The US doesn’t seem to care.
Palestinians trying to access Christianity’s holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem this Easter face restrictions and hostility from Israel
Confirmation hearings began this week for President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. “Huckabee uses his Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing,” said one protester at Huckabee’s hearing.
As Israel’s massacre carries on apace, we connect for a brief moment with the Christian community in Gaza.