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Jerusalem: Israeli journalist dressed as Christian priest spat at by settlers
middleeastmonitor ^ | 27 June 2023 | middleeastmonitor

Posted on 06/27/2023 9:40:41 AM PDT by proust

Channel 13's Yossi Eli wanted to see for himself the spiralling hate crimes against Christians. Within five minutes of setting out with a Franciscan clergyman, Father Alberto, Eli was spat at five times by Jewish Israeli settlers.

Eli asked what the reaction would be if Jews were spat at instead of Christians. "Just think what the reaction of those Jews would have been if a Christian had spat on them in Europe," he said, adding that being a priest for a day "was very difficult to digest."

According to a report in Haaretz, Patton mentioned the desecration of a Lutheran cemetery, the vandalising of a Maronite prayer room and the spraying of "death to Christians" on Armenian property, all within the space of a few weeks.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenews; israel; lookwhohatesjews; spitonajournalist
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1 posted on 06/27/2023 9:40:41 AM PDT by proust
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To: proust

They don’t really realize what side their bread is buttered on, do they?


2 posted on 06/27/2023 9:42:56 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It’s all in the Book.
Buckle up!


3 posted on 06/27/2023 9:45:17 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Boogieman

Christians and Jews have been killing each other in the Holy Land for 2000 years. It’s muted now because the Muslims are a greater threat to both, but there is no love between religions there.


4 posted on 06/27/2023 9:49:58 AM PDT by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: proust

How revealing!


5 posted on 06/27/2023 9:53:06 AM PDT by lee martell
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6 posted on 06/27/2023 9:54:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

The sourcing for the article is “Channel 13” and “Haaretz.” I was going to publish the original Haaretz article, but it’s behind a paywall.


7 posted on 06/27/2023 10:07:05 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: proust

Yep. They speak for themselves enough.


8 posted on 06/27/2023 10:09:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Boogieman
Eli's investigation comes against the backdrop of a worrying escalation in hate crimes against the indigenous Christian communities of Palestine....

I suggest that anyone commenting on this matter actually visit Israel and see all the Christians all over the place, living and worshipping freely... Not just in Jerusalem where Church worship is all over the place but in Tel Aviv where Christians include tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans who came to Israel claiming to be Jews, whose troubles now mainly consist not of accounting for their spiritual misrepresentations but of (finding and) dragging Christmas trees up Allenby Street.

It is one small part of the "Christians Claiming to be Jews" phenomenon so rife on this very forum, which irritates some Jews and Israelis, who face endless evangelism and proselytization on TV, in the streets, etc. Israel is more diverse than you can imagine, and there are hot territorial disputes, even between (especially between) different sorts of Jews.

As a "conservadox" of sorts I myself have to be sensitive about where I am on Shabbat... It's part of the territory.

But ask yourself: how are the "indigenous Christian communities" of the REST of the Muslim world doing? And how would they be doing if "Palestine" were not ISRAEL?


9 posted on 06/27/2023 10:23:48 AM PDT by golux
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To: proust; SunkenCiv
Eli asked what the reaction would be if Jews were spat at instead of Christians. "Just think what the reaction of those Jews would have been if a Christian had spat on them in Europe," he said, adding that being a priest for a day "was very difficult to digest."

There was a city some years back that allowed journalists to dress up as cops and ride along to show them what cops were REALLY dealing with... Walking in another's shoes is a great idea until HR decided impersonating a cop wasn't OK...

10 posted on 06/27/2023 10:27:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black dem thugs, white liberal 'elites', & sexual weirdos - democrat's team against the rest of us)
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To: Boogieman
Bingo!! They actually identify with Muslims more than Christians....go freaking figure!

The women at The WALL were so RUDE to me....I was just trying to put a prayer note in, and it was a SCHTRUGGLE,( as The MOOCH would say)!

11 posted on 06/27/2023 10:37:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Olog-hai

Thanks.

Islamist propaganda.


12 posted on 06/27/2023 10:50:59 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: golux

The situation of priests in some parts of Jerusalem may be different from that of Christians who aren’t clergy and who are in the tourist parts of the city.

Also, many of those Russians in Israel were Jews in Soviet eyes and in the eyes of many here who were campaigning for their freedom to emigrate, though they may not be Jews for Orthodox rabbis, so it’s complicated.


13 posted on 06/27/2023 10:51:52 AM PDT by x
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To: Ann Archy

Romans 11:28.


14 posted on 06/27/2023 10:55:01 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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15 posted on 06/27/2023 11:03:00 AM PDT by SJackson (he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
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To: ifinnegan

YW. Needed to be pointed out.


16 posted on 06/27/2023 1:51:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

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17 posted on 06/27/2023 2:36:16 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Olog-hai; proust; Boogieman; bk1000; lee martell; golux; Ann Archy; ifinnegan; SJackson; ...

I’ve been having an unusual amount of trouble drilling down to the source material on this story.

Other than to note this is a Haaretz (so far left, it makes the NYT seem unbiased, with a deep hatred of observant Jews) and Muslim production, I have only some general observations:

1. They use the term “settlers” here, although this appears to be Jerusalem. That’s a loaded, Leftist, term and attempt to lump in people in East Jerusalem (who have been there forever) with someone starting a farm off in Judea (who may also have been there forever, but it’s not the same groups).

2. This appears to be southeast of the Jewish quarter, right in an area by the Armenian Quarter.

3. That Aremian Quarter is dominated by some disagreeable people, who are nominally Nazarene, but identify strongly with the Muslims. They generally hate Jewish people and the state of Israel. (And, in fairness, they have some legitimate beefs.)

4. The Jewish Quarter down this way is dominated by various anti-Zionist Haredi groups. They hate everyone who is not part of there particular group, even other Haredi. They REALLY hate Modern Orthodox guys like me. They are flaming assholes to everyone, and do all sorts of bad things, including (probably, no one has been caught) vandalizing the Lutheran cemetery.

5. All of the above are enmeshed in all sorts of illegal mafia-like crime. Each is their own gang. Priests, Rabbis, whatever, are all often scum and were religious trappings, with little spirit, to use a Nazarene concept.

Given the above, this is more like a Crip walking into Blood territory wearing a blue hat than a religious fight.

Which is where the Pallywood Production Team of Haaretz comes in. They take what is effectively inter-gang hatred and cast it as some horrid religious fight.

There are Nazarenes all over Israel, visiting, living their lives, just fine. Heck, Arab Nazarenes are the single richest (and highest educated) demographic in Israel. They’re doing just fine, especially compared to how they would do in the PA or Jordan or Syria or Lebanon, where they are routinely killed.


18 posted on 06/28/2023 11:35:33 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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Well, even if the story is true, the nice thing about Christians is that we will still forgive them even if they did spit on us :)


19 posted on 06/28/2023 11:51:54 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Well, I’ll hate those guys for you.

Complete dicks and give Jews a bad name.

My wife is Hasidic and very frum and had a hard time in that area when we got displaced from Gush Katif because she was “not from around here” so to speak.

They’re just gangs. And just like every other gang.


20 posted on 06/28/2023 11:56:54 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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