Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

[Modbert]

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them - Haaretz - Israel News

A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.

The clergyman prefered not to lodge a complaint with the police and told an acquaintance that he was used to being spat at by Jews. Many Jerusalem clergy have been subjected to abuse of this kind. For the most part, they ignore it but sometimes they cannot

On Sunday, a fracas developed when a yeshiva student spat at the cross being carried by the Armenian Archbishop during a procession near the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City. The archbishop's 17th-century cross was broken during the brawl and he slapped the yeshiva student.

According to Daniel Rossing, former adviser to the Religious Affairs Ministry on Christian affairs and director of a Jerusalem center for Christian-Jewish dialogue, there has been an increase in the number of such incidents recently, "as part of a general atmosphere of lack of tolerance in the country."

Rossing says there are certain common characeristics from the point of view of time and location to the incidents. He points to the fact that there are more incidents in areas where Jews and Christians mingle, such as the Jewish and Armenian quarters of the Old City and the Jaffa Gate.

There are an increased number at certain times of year, such as during the Purim holiday."I know Christians who lock themselves indoors during the entire Purim holiday," he says.

Thoughts?

 

[AllieBaba]

I learned, from watching "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" that spitting amongst Greeks is actually for good luck.

Perhaps it's their way of showing repect.
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[Sunni Man]

Israeli Jews don't like Christians, and they hate Jesus

 

[Shogun]

yea baba... or, maybe there are jews who are human enough to exhibit the same kind of hatred everyone else gets called antisemite for when directed at jews.

 

[Modbert]

yea baba... or, maybe there are jews who are human enough to exhibit the same kind of hatred everyone else gets called antisemite for when directed at jews.

Wow, I'm surprised this thread got another response.

 

[rdean]

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

Spitting's not so bad.

The Republicans Party, the so called "party of God", whole heartedly supported the genocide of the Iraqi Christians. That's way worse than "spitting".

Christian teenager killed in Iraq drive-by shooting - Yahoo! News

4 Christians Killed Within 48 Hours in Iraq | Christianpost.com

More Christians Killed in Iraq - Catholic Online

Iraqi Christians Seek Return, Sense Extinction by Kelley B. Vlahos -- Antiwar.com

While it might sound a bit hyperbolic, there is no denying that the Christian minority in Iraq is slowly bleeding out, even as U.S. lawmakers justifying their support for the invasion of Iraq – such as Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham – insist the United States military made that country a better place to live.

Vicar: Dire Times For Iraq's Christians - 60 Minutes - CBS News

"The room is full of children, it’s full of women, but I don’t see the men. Where are they?" Pelley remarked.
"They are mainly killed. Some are kidnapped. Some are killed. In the last six months things have got particularly bad for the Christians. Here in this church, all of my leadership were originally taken and killed," White explained. "All dead. But we never got their bodies back. This is one of the problems. I regularly do funerals here but it's not easy to get the bodies."

------Even today, Republicans call Iraq a success.

 

[Barb]

Sounds like a reasonable request.

 

[Douger]

yea baba... or, maybe there are jews who are human enough to exhibit the same kind of hatred everyone else gets called antisemite for when directed at jews.

There are plenty of them. They claim not to be Jews by changing their names, or saying they have German names, so they aren't associated with the beanie wearing, sociopathic, " self chosen" ,Zionists tied to IsNtReal.
Ask any porn star.

 

[California Girl]

Christians in American would quite like the fucking whiny lefties to stop metephorically spitting on us too. Aint' gonna happen.

 

[Modbert]

Christians in American would quite like the fucking whiny lefties to stop metephorically spitting on us too. Aint' gonna happen.

First Rdean and now you. Can you people keep your partisan bullshit out of ONE thread?

I get it, you're angry at "lefties", bitch about it elsewhere.

 

[Modbert]

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

Spitting's not so bad.

The Republicans Party, the so called "party of God", whole heartedly supported the genocide of the Iraqi Christians. That's way worse than "spitting".

Christian teenager killed in Iraq drive-by shooting - Yahoo! News

4 Christians Killed Within 48 Hours in Iraq | Christianpost.com

More Christians Killed in Iraq - Catholic Online

Iraqi Christians Seek Return, Sense Extinction by Kelley B. Vlahos -- Antiwar.com

While it might sound a bit hyperbolic, there is no denying that the Christian minority in Iraq is slowly bleeding out, even as U.S. lawmakers justifying their support for the invasion of Iraq – such as Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham – insist the United States military made that country a better place to live.

Vicar: Dire Times For Iraq's Christians - 60 Minutes - CBS News

"The room is full of children, it’s full of women, but I don’t see the men. Where are they?" Pelley remarked.
"They are mainly killed. Some are kidnapped. Some are killed. In the last six months things have got particularly bad for the Christians. Here in this church, all of my leadership were originally taken and killed," White explained. "All dead. But we never got their bodies back. This is one of the problems. I regularly do funerals here but it's not easy to get the bodies."

------Even today, Republicans call Iraq a success.

And you've disappointed me Rdean, derailing this thread and all. Create your own thread and take the partisan bullshit elsewhere.

 

[Douger]

Whaddya want ? You low life Jesus followers didn't give them their F22 fighters and didn't bomb Iran yet.YET.
Goyim Scum. Only 10 billion in 3 years? How are they to survive ?

 

[California Girl]

Christians in American would quite like the fucking whiny lefties to stop metephorically spitting on us too. Aint' gonna happen.

First Rdean and now you. Can you people keep your partisan bullshit out of ONE thread?

I get it, you're angry at "lefties", bitch about it elsewhere.

I can bitch whereever I choose to, Dog. I'm not being partisan - I'd just like the fucking whiners on the left to stop treating Christians like idiots. They suck up to Muslims but dare to celebrate a Christian festival and they're all over us like flies on shit.

 

[Modbert]

I can bitch whereever I choose to, Dog. I'm not being partisan - I'd just like the fucking whiners on the left to stop treating Christians like idiots. They suck up to Muslims but dare to celebrate a Christian festival and they're all over us like flies on shit.

You're being a partisan hack by taking your bullshit to this thread. Don't like the reality by some other hacks? Make a thread about it. This is not the first thread of mine you've brought your bullshit into in the past week. It's called common fucking courtesy. I give it to you by not derailing any of your threads, I expect the same in return.

I'm a Christian and I grow tired of sweeping generalizations that you make constantly about Liberals. You judging Liberals by a few fucktards on their end would be like me judging you based on the idiots that hold the same beliefs as you or much of the same.

So don't sit there and act like you got a monopoly on Christianity there. Now take your bullshit partisan rhetoric into your own thread. And take note, I told Rdean the same thing.

 

[blu]

Christians in American would quite like the fucking whiny lefties to stop metephorically spitting on us too. Aint' gonna happen.

yay for logical fallacies

 

[blu]

Christians in American would quite like the fucking whiny lefties to stop metephorically spitting on us too. Aint' gonna happen.

First Rdean and now you. Can you people keep your partisan bullshit out of ONE thread?

I get it, you're angry at "lefties", bitch about it elsewhere.

I can bitch whereever I choose to, Dog. I'm not being partisan - I'd just like the fucking whiners on the left to stop treating Christians like idiots. They suck up to Muslims but dare to celebrate a Christian festival and they're all over us like flies on shit.

you can bitch about whatever you want but you just make yourself look stupid

 

[Kalam]

Perhaps it's their way of showing repect.

Oh, the hilarity of denial. I wonder if this is what we'd be hearing if the evil mooozlims were doing the spitting?

 

[Modbert]

Oh, the hilarity of denial. I wonder if this is what we'd be hearing if the evil mooozlims were doing the spitting?

Silly Kalam, we all know that Muslims don't spit. They blow things up. C'mon, get with the program!

 

[California Girl]

First Rdean and now you. Can you people keep your partisan bullshit out of ONE thread?

I get it, you're angry at "lefties", bitch about it elsewhere.

I can bitch whereever I choose to, Dog. I'm not being partisan - I'd just like the fucking whiners on the left to stop treating Christians like idiots. They suck up to Muslims but dare to celebrate a Christian festival and they're all over us like flies on shit.

you can bitch about whatever you want but you just make yourself look stupid

Occasionally, I'm okay with looking stupid - I don't like you to stand out.

 

[GHook93]

This is a wrongful act and the Jerusalem police MUST do something.

Problem with spitting (as is the case here) is the actual harm is very mild. The blow to the ego is enormous, but the harm is low. Therefore, criminal charges would be very hard to press for any meaningful deter. The problem with civil litigation is that evidence would be tough to come by and hard to prosecute.

I personally think they should make a ordinance that spitting on anyone (to pass equal protection mandates) is $1000 dollar (the equivalence in shekels) fine to the victim.

On a side-note: At least its only spitting. In Muslim Countries, Christian are beaten, raped and Murdered. In Afghanistan you could get acid sprayed in your eyes just for being a girl who attends school. Iraq has systematically decimated its Christian population. In Lebanon, Christians, once the majority, have been ethically cleansed to a 25% minority. In is very interesting that the majority of Arabs and Persians in American are Christian (and a sizable Jewish population), when they make up such a little population in the Arab world!

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them - Haaretz - Israel News

A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.

The clergyman prefered not to lodge a complaint with the police and told an acquaintance that he was used to being spat at by Jews. Many Jerusalem clergy have been subjected to abuse of this kind. For the most part, they ignore it but sometimes they cannot

On Sunday, a fracas developed when a yeshiva student spat at the cross being carried by the Armenian Archbishop during a procession near the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City. The archbishop's 17th-century cross was broken during the brawl and he slapped the yeshiva student.

According to Daniel Rossing, former adviser to the Religious Affairs Ministry on Christian affairs and director of a Jerusalem center for Christian-Jewish dialogue, there has been an increase in the number of such incidents recently, "as part of a general atmosphere of lack of tolerance in the country."

Rossing says there are certain common characeristics from the point of view of time and location to the incidents. He points to the fact that there are more incidents in areas where Jews and Christians mingle, such as the Jewish and Armenian quarters of the Old City and the Jaffa Gate.

There are an increased number at certain times of year, such as during the Purim holiday."I know Christians who lock themselves indoors during the entire Purim holiday," he says.

Thoughts?