Posted on 03/13/2020 7:14:24 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Regardless of the demographics, Bethlehem is special, or holy, to Christians because it was the birthplace of Jesus, but the MSM would never publish that Bethlehem is special. However, they bow down to Islam and refer to Muslim cities as “the Holy City of Kerbala” or “the Holy City of Qom”, rather than “in the city of Kerbala…”.
I see your point. I was just curious how many Christians still lived there. I didn’t even realize it was outside of Israeli territory.
...limited in scope and narrowly tailored, targeting five weapons storage facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah militants, including stores of weaponry for past attacks on U.S.-led coalition troops... Iraq’s military said the U.S. air strikes hit four locations in Iraq that housed formal Iraqi police and military units, in addition to the paramilitary groups... One strike hit an Iraqi civilian airport under construction in the holy Shi’ite Muslim city of Kerbala and killed a worker, Iraqi religious authorities said on Friday.
And the US strikes also destroyed a coronavirus vaccine research facility that had just perfected a cure. /sarc
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