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Australian church: Jesus wasn't Palestinian
INN ^ | 12/28/2015, 7:06 PM | Gil Ronen

Posted on 12/28/2015 9:57:56 AM PST by Olog-hai

Jesus was not Palestinian, the Uniting Church of Australia said after an umbrella Jewish group objected to a news story that called Palestinians "the living descendants of Christ."

The saga began when two Palestinian Arab members of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, which has links with the Uniting Church of Australia, wrote a story that appeared last Tuesday in the leftist political publication New Matilda.

The article, which was penned by Samah Sabawi and Bassam Dally, stated: "An official delegation representing our country in Israel has added fuel to the flames of extremism abroad by applauding proven human rights violators and insulting the living descendants of Christ in his home of birth in Palestine." ...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: advocacynetwork; antichristian; antisemitism; jesus; palestinian; rop; unitingchurch

1 posted on 12/28/2015 9:57:56 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

uhhh......House of David, anybody? All of those Jews in the Bible who begat and begat and begat and begat?

Only an illiterate moron would believe he was Palestinian.


2 posted on 12/28/2015 10:01:26 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Only an illiterate moron would believe he was Palestinian.

Which precisely describes the vast majority of Muslims.


3 posted on 12/28/2015 10:03:24 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Olog-hai
"the living descendants of Christ."

What?? He didn't have any earthly children.

4 posted on 12/28/2015 10:04:14 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It was the Romans after the Jewish Revolts who renamed the area Palestine to wipe out the regions Jewish roots.


5 posted on 12/28/2015 10:04:14 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Olog-hai
a news story that called Palestinians "the living descendants of Christ."

JMHO but aren't we ALL living descendants of Christ?

6 posted on 12/28/2015 10:07:15 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Olog-hai

Palestinian is a geographical place name. Palestinians are a group of people from different countries - Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya - who live in that geographical area. ‘Palestinian’ is not a race!

Only muslims are
a) dumb enough to imagine they belong to a race and,
b) dumb enough to imagine the rest of us believe they are a race.


7 posted on 12/28/2015 10:08:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Olog-hai

In no particular order, the following thoughts come to mind about this utter CRAP:


1. I thought that Jesus had no descendants.

2. There were no “Palestinians” until Rome destroyed Israel in the Bar Kockba (i.e. JEWISH) revolt of circa 135 C.E., and they were mostly Jews (i.e. the population of the country/province of Rome at that time).

3. There weren’t even any “Palestinians” in the modern era until after the founding of Israel. The headline in the main Jerusalem paper in May, 1948 about the State of Israel being declared appeared in the “Palestinian Post,” which was a Jewish-owned paper, written by Jews for a Jewish audience. All the rest of the Arabs in the area were referred to as...drumroll...ARABS.

4. Jesus was a Jew, not an Arab.

5. Much of the so-called “Palestinian” population of today is descended from Moslem immigrants from southeastern Europe (which the Moslem Ottoman Turkish empire controlled until 1917), or from what became Syria, or from Egypt.


This is what 50 generations of cousin-marriage does to a population - it drops their IQ down to 75-85, with a commensurate loss of the ability to apply facts to theory, or to put forth a coherent argument (and, as an aside, it makes it much easier for those with relatively normal IQs to find drooling idiots ready to strap on a bomb and detonate it for 72 raisins).


8 posted on 12/28/2015 10:09:42 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Olog-hai
"the living descendants of Christ."

From all the best evidence, he did not have any children. His blood relatives were Jewish. And those he considered spiritually related are those who do the will of his father in heaven...and I just am not sure murdering Jews with unprovoked violence qualifies.

9 posted on 12/28/2015 10:10:04 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Olog-hai

God gave Abraham the land of Israel. All of it. It was handed down to his son of Promise, Isaac, not Ishmael. Arabs know this full well. They’ve known it since Ishmael learned to talk.

The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are at complete enmity with God. It’s not their land and they won’t be able to keep it.


10 posted on 12/28/2015 10:13:16 AM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Ancesthntr

Take note also that the Arabs calling themselves “Palestinian” use the name “Al-Filestina” in their own language (literally “the Philistines”, who were Canaanites and not Ishmaelite).


11 posted on 12/28/2015 10:20:01 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Dogbert41

They’re fine with the Koranic/Hadithic false narrative of Abraham being told to sacrifice Ishmael instead of Isaac though, as well as the phony story of Abraham helping Ishmael erect the Kaaba in Mecca.


12 posted on 12/28/2015 10:22:07 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Don Corleone

No, we are all descendants of Adam, but other lines besides David’s line branched off.


13 posted on 12/28/2015 10:35:30 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Olog-hai

Jesus is the worlds MOST FAMOUS JEW.
He was born in Bethlehem , JUDEA .

There is NO WEST BANK , it’s JUDEA .
It doesn’t rightfully belong to nor has it ever belonged to arabs that today have hijacked the name palestinians.

Soon and very soon the land will vomit out these arab liars and thieves.


14 posted on 12/28/2015 10:51:55 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Olog-hai

One of Jesus’ grandmama’s was a Caananite ho, and another was a Moabitess...so, technically, there IS some non-Jewish blood in Him.


15 posted on 12/28/2015 11:04:54 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Yes, I do know about Rahab and Ruth. But nobody from Ishmael’s line has any claim here.


16 posted on 12/28/2015 11:14:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

True, true. I think the Arabs should all be transported to their ancestral homeland of Saudi Arabia...it has 10 times the land space, plus they’ll be guests of their wealthy Muslim brothers.


17 posted on 12/28/2015 11:20:53 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Olog-hai
The Philistines are thought to have originated in the Aegean area and are usually identified with the Peleset who were one of the Sea Peoples who attacked Egypt a couple of times areound 1200 PNE. So they were not related to the Canaanites.

The term Palestine first shows up in Herodotus, writing in around 430 PNE. That the Persians were using the term for a portion of Syria (probably corresponding roughly to the area of ancient Philistia--it isn't clear how large the area embraced by the term was) probably indicates that earlier empires had employed a similar term since the Philistines had probably lost their distinctive identity by the fifth century.

The Arabic name is probably from the Greco-Roman name since Arabic doesn't have the P sound--thus "Boutros" is Arabic for "Petros."

The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians now are probably a mixture of all the peoples who have lived in the area over the millennia--Canaanites, Philistines, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Turks, plus slaves brought in by various rulers. That they speak Arabic doesn't mean they are mostly descended from the Arabs of Arabia in the 7th century--a minority can impose a language (cf. Spanish in Mexico). There weren't that many people in Arabia in Mohammad's day and most of those who emigrated went to places like Iraq and Egypt.

PNE = before our era (pered nashei ere/prije nashe ere)

18 posted on 12/28/2015 12:18:22 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

>The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians now are probably a mixture of all the peoples who have lived in the area over the millennia—Canaanites, Philistines, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Turks, plus slaves brought in by various rulers. That they speak Arabic doesn’t mean they are mostly descended from the Arabs of Arabia in the 7th century—a minority can impose a language (cf. Spanish in Mexico). There weren’t that many people in Arabia in Mohammad’s day and most of those who emigrated went to places like Iraq and Egypt.

Yeah, but a small number of people may well spread their DNA over a fair distance. Muslims are able to have more than one wife, after all, and that doesn’t include concubines.


19 posted on 12/29/2015 6:17:06 PM PST by Jacob Kell (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American history, Obama is the yellow stain in front)
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