“Dozens,” eh? Sorry, my give-a-damn’s broke.
The article confuses the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Pope Gregory was obviously later than Julius Caesar.
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If you look at Bethlehem from a helicopter, to all appearances it is now a suburb of Jerusalem, right next to Giloh. Yet the central police station of Bethlehem for the PA is in Gush Etzion, right next to the Jooo! police station. The idea of a separate Palestinian state that includes Bethlehem is absurd. And the security wall around Rachel’s Tomb completely blocks out the beautifully understated Moor-ish dome by which Rachel’s Tomb is universally recognized all over the world. This obscene charade should end now, or at least while there are still Christians in Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, and Jews should be encourage to re-”occupy” it, too, since it is also the city in which David was born.
https://azure.org.il/include/print.php?id=258: “...the bitter experience of non-Muslim communities in Arab countries—like the fate of Arab Christians, the Muslims’ supposed partners in Arab nationalism. What return should Israelis expect for abandoning their national sovereignty, when Coptic Christian churches in Egypt are burned, and Coptic priests and laymen physically assaulted? The Copts are an integral part of the Egyptian people, yet many of them suffer from persecution at the hands of radical Muslims, and many have fled Egypt. A similar fate has befallen Palestinian Christians, who have lived in perpetual fear of the Palestinian security forces and the armed groups in the areas under their control. Christians have emigrated in large numbers, and the relative proportion of Christians within the Palestinian Authority has steadily declined since its establishment in 1994. At least ten thousand Christian Arabs have fled, including some three thousand since the outbreak of hostilities in September 2000.”