[willyone]

Is there something wrong with the way you look at the world? Just whose 200 terrorists are in the church? If they had not seizrd the church this would not be happening. Obviously you are one of the blame the victim crowd. If you get mugged on a street it was your fault for being there and your fault that they beat you since you only had ten bucks on you. Get a CAT scan.

[history_matters]

Thank you for your unreasoned and rude post. It makes its own point about your grey matter.

The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land have made the statement time and again that in the fighting that was taking place between the IDF and the Palestinian Authority police a group of Palestinian civilians together with these 200 armed Palestinians poured into the Church during the fighting. The IDF is surrounding the Church of the Holy Nativity in violation of accords signed with the Vatican, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Bethlehem is a Palestinian Christian city. Once given partial autonomy it is perfectly understandable that not one Palestinian Christian would want to surrender that autonomy back to the Israeli DF.