SherriMunnerlyn
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If Jesus was born in 2013, it would have had to be a birth somewhere else instead of Bethlehem.
The Apartheid Occupation Wall would have prevented Joseph and Mary from reaching Bethlehem from Nazareth.
Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem
Saturday December 15, 2012 00:08 by Palestine News Network -*
"Bethlehem is a vivid example of the severe and appalling effects that Israeli colonization policies have had in Palestine. Illegal confiscation of land, expulsion of Palestinian families and on-going construction of Israeli settlements are few of countless stories that can be heard from the inhabitants of Palestine in general, and Bethlehem in particular."
What Israel has effectively done is seek to change the demographic and geographic composition of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, particularly in Occupied East Jerusalem,
by taking as much as land and natural resources as possible with as few Palestinians as possible, for the benefit of the Zionist illegal colonial enterprise.
For Israel's international image, the Zionist State markets the numbers of permits to Palestinian Christians during Easter and Christmas.
Israel presents their granting of permits as a goodwill gesture and sign of cooperation, although Palestinians are required to ask for permits from the occupying power to go from one side of their own country to the other, not to a different country.
And not every person who applies for permits receives them.
As an illustration, in April of 2011, 15,000 Christian Palestinians applied for a permit to enter occupied East Jerusalem, but Israel only issued around 2500 permits.
That means less than 20% of Christians were allowed entry to Jerusalem on Easter 2011.
Over 80% were denied entry.
Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem - International Middle East Media Center
The Apartheid Occupation Wall would have prevented Joseph and Mary from reaching Bethlehem from Nazareth.
Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem
Saturday December 15, 2012 00:08 by Palestine News Network -*
"Bethlehem is a vivid example of the severe and appalling effects that Israeli colonization policies have had in Palestine. Illegal confiscation of land, expulsion of Palestinian families and on-going construction of Israeli settlements are few of countless stories that can be heard from the inhabitants of Palestine in general, and Bethlehem in particular."
What Israel has effectively done is seek to change the demographic and geographic composition of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, particularly in Occupied East Jerusalem,
by taking as much as land and natural resources as possible with as few Palestinians as possible, for the benefit of the Zionist illegal colonial enterprise.
For Israel's international image, the Zionist State markets the numbers of permits to Palestinian Christians during Easter and Christmas.
Israel presents their granting of permits as a goodwill gesture and sign of cooperation, although Palestinians are required to ask for permits from the occupying power to go from one side of their own country to the other, not to a different country.
And not every person who applies for permits receives them.
As an illustration, in April of 2011, 15,000 Christian Palestinians applied for a permit to enter occupied East Jerusalem, but Israel only issued around 2500 permits.
That means less than 20% of Christians were allowed entry to Jerusalem on Easter 2011.
Over 80% were denied entry.
Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem - International Middle East Media Center
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