Posted on 12/22/2014 11:38:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
It’s Christmas season and the little town of Bethlehem is jammed with a big-city problem: Traffic snarling streets everywhere, including around the church marking the spot where tradition says Jesus was born. The city is considering a dramatic solution to the problem—digging a tunnel under Manger Square.
Traffic is a mess year-round. It may be the biblical town of grottos and shepherds’ fields in the minds of many around the world, but Bethlehem is a modern densely populated town of 28,000 with a dizzying weave of small streets that practically guarantee traffic jams. […]
Bethlehem’s municipality hopes to eventually build several tunnels around the Palestinian city, where the urban development problems are myriad. …
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What a surprise, slammies digging tunnels. They ought to be pretty good at it by now.
The muslim majority there don’t treat the Christians with much tolerance; until that changes, I don’t see much point in investing there.
And why is the City of David called a “Palestinian” city?
....Yet they want those “dollars” that the pilgrims bring!
if Mary and Joseph came back, they’d be stoned by Islamonazis.
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