Why support Israel?

[Roudy]

National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine Releases Statement Calling for More Action Against Israel
posted on: Jun 14, 2017

Picture: House of Commons Seminar on Plight of Christians Living in Palestine

By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer

The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine released a statement Monday calling for all Christians to condemn Israel’s occupation of Palestine and that they take more active measures in fighting for the rights of Palestinians.

In the open letter addressed to World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Movement, the NCCOP outlined a list of nine demands which included the recognition of Israeli apartheid, condemnation of the Balfour Agreement and that Christians take a stronger stance against religious extremism.

The NCCOP believes Christian organizations in Israel and abroad haven’t seized an active enough role when it comes to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as well as its treatment of Palestinians. The open letter comes as the organization meets in Bethlehem this month and following US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel in late May.

“We are still suffering because of one political declaration from a Western Empire, based on a twisted theological premise,” the NCCOP said of the western nations supporting Israel.

“Even some churches and few Christian leaders supported the establishment of the colonial state in our land, and totally ignored – even dehumanized – the nation, our people that had already existed here for centuries and paid the price for atrocities committed in Europe.”

Among the aforementioned demands, the NCCOP also wants the United Kingdom to formally recognize and ask for forgiveness of the Palestinian people in reference to the Balfour declaration. Named after British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, the 1917 declaration send to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild posited the notion of an ethno-religious state in the middle-east and is largely recognized as the impetus for a British zionist movement following the First World War.

The NCCOP’s statement follows a growing trend over the past couple years in the United States and other western nations in condemning Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, which has been characterized by the United Nations as an “apartheid system.”

Father George Shalhoub of the Basilica of Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Livonia Michigan spoke to Arab America in response to the NCCOP’s statement saying, “We support the NCCOP and wish to warn the world that unless something happens, the christian conscience will die, and the world will lose its basic humanity. We have heard enough speeches, promises, and agreements. It is the time to act, it is the time of essence not only for good Palestinian christians, but the Middle East in general must take precedence…. The whole region is threatened. So, we send our prayer and support for the NCCOP.”

The NCCOP’s statement also comes a week after the 50 year anniversary of the Six Day War between Israel and surrounding Middle-Eastern countries which established the Israeli borders in Palestine in place today

Palestinian Christians Calling for More Action Against Israel

Israel is the only place in the Middle East that Christians aren't being ethnically cleansed you moron.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Israel is a parasite to the United States
Remember the US can survive without Israel
But Israel cannot survive without the United States/

US technology industry, and, thus, the American economy, depend on Israel

Those jobs would be in the U.S, if Israel didn't do it cheaper.

Israel does it better, because it's people are highly educated and prepared to work in these industries, unlike dumbfucks like you.

Israel's Pisa scores, and IQ scores are actually kind of modest.

 

[Roudy]

Who Is Israel's Yair Klein and What Was He Doing in Colombia and Sierra Leone?
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Last weekend, Colombian intelligence agents arrested two Israelis and a Colombian suspected of being part of an arms-smuggling network attempting to deliver more than 50,000 guns to guerrillas. [includes rush transcript]

Colombian officials are investigating whether the detained Israelis are linked to Yair Klein, an Israeli mercenary accused by Colombian authorities of training right-wing paramilitaries and drug-traffickers in the late 1980s and 1990s.

And it is this man Yair Klein that we are going to take a close look at today. It’s the story of a leading mercenary but also of the governments and shadowy forces he has worked with.

In late April, Yair Klein was released from a Sierra Leone prison where he spent 16 months on charges that he was smuggling arms to rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).

Klein is a former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Army. In the 1980s he established a paramilitary mercenary company called Spearhead Ltd. Through this company, Klein began providing arms and training to forces in South America.

In 1989, Klein, along with several other former Israeli officers, was charged by authorities in Colombia of providing paramilitary training and arms to drug lords running international cocaine cartels. He is also accused of training Mafia assassins whose targets have included Colombian politicians. Klein is also suspected of involvement in the explosion of a Colombian airliner in November 1989.

In 1991, Klein was convicted by an Israeli court of illegally exporting military arms and information to a Colombian group. He was fined $13,400. He has denied all charges.

In 1998, Klein was officially indicted in Colombia on charges of training paramilitary units in terror tactics in the late 1980s. He was allegedly one of four Israelis hired by the late drug trafficker Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, one of the Medellin cartel’s most violent bosses.

The evidence against him includes a training video that he used to instruct death squads in Colombia. The main leaders in the infamous Carlos Castano’s paramilitary groups were trained by Yair Klein.

Massacres, assassinations of politicians and other terror tactics now used by paramilitaries in Colombia were part of the instruction that Yair Klein gave in his training camps.

Guests:

• Andrew Cockburn, a filmmaker and journalist. Among his works is a Front Line documentary "Israel: The Covert Connection." His latest book he wrote with his brother Independent reporter Patrick Cockburn called ??Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein. He also did the documentary on Iraq called "The War We Left Behind."
• Peter Hirshberg, a reporter for The Jerusalem Report Magazine who has covered Israeli mercenary firms.
• Jaome Vidal, with Coardinaccion Colombia Europa, a human rights group in Bogota.
• Maria Jimena Duzan, columnist for Bogota’s daily newspaper El Espectador and author of the book ??Death Beat, an account of the Colombian press’ struggle against the drug trade. El Espectador was bombed in the early 90’s by the Medellin Cartel for its coverage of the drug trade (half the building was destroyed). Also, the publisher/owner was killed by the Medellin Cartel.

Democracy Now! Show for June 01, 2000 | Democracy Now!

Democracy Now?! Left wing nutjobs. Try again.

 

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Who Is Israel's Yair Klein and What Was He Doing in Colombia and Sierra Leone?
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Last weekend, Colombian intelligence agents arrested two Israelis and a Colombian suspected of being part of an arms-smuggling network attempting to deliver more than 50,000 guns to guerrillas. [includes rush transcript]

Colombian officials are investigating whether the detained Israelis are linked to Yair Klein, an Israeli mercenary accused by Colombian authorities of training right-wing paramilitaries and drug-traffickers in the late 1980s and 1990s.

And it is this man Yair Klein that we are going to take a close look at today. It’s the story of a leading mercenary but also of the governments and shadowy forces he has worked with.

In late April, Yair Klein was released from a Sierra Leone prison where he spent 16 months on charges that he was smuggling arms to rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).

Klein is a former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Army. In the 1980s he established a paramilitary mercenary company called Spearhead Ltd. Through this company, Klein began providing arms and training to forces in South America.

In 1989, Klein, along with several other former Israeli officers, was charged by authorities in Colombia of providing paramilitary training and arms to drug lords running international cocaine cartels. He is also accused of training Mafia assassins whose targets have included Colombian politicians. Klein is also suspected of involvement in the explosion of a Colombian airliner in November 1989.

In 1991, Klein was convicted by an Israeli court of illegally exporting military arms and information to a Colombian group. He was fined $13,400. He has denied all charges.

In 1998, Klein was officially indicted in Colombia on charges of training paramilitary units in terror tactics in the late 1980s. He was allegedly one of four Israelis hired by the late drug trafficker Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, one of the Medellin cartel’s most violent bosses.

The evidence against him includes a training video that he used to instruct death squads in Colombia. The main leaders in the infamous Carlos Castano’s paramilitary groups were trained by Yair Klein.

Massacres, assassinations of politicians and other terror tactics now used by paramilitaries in Colombia were part of the instruction that Yair Klein gave in his training camps.

Guests:

• Andrew Cockburn, a filmmaker and journalist. Among his works is a Front Line documentary "Israel: The Covert Connection." His latest book he wrote with his brother Independent reporter Patrick Cockburn called ??Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein. He also did the documentary on Iraq called "The War We Left Behind."
• Peter Hirshberg, a reporter for The Jerusalem Report Magazine who has covered Israeli mercenary firms.
• Jaome Vidal, with Coardinaccion Colombia Europa, a human rights group in Bogota.
• Maria Jimena Duzan, columnist for Bogota’s daily newspaper El Espectador and author of the book ??Death Beat, an account of the Colombian press’ struggle against the drug trade. El Espectador was bombed in the early 90’s by the Medellin Cartel for its coverage of the drug trade (half the building was destroyed). Also, the publisher/owner was killed by the Medellin Cartel.

Democracy Now! Show for June 01, 2000 | Democracy Now!

Democracy Now?! Left wing nutjobs. Try again.

Wikipedia says similar, how come?

Yair Klein - Wikipedia

 

[Roudy]

Um, wrong. New Testament says the Roman charge against Jesus was claiming to be King of the Jews, political treason

Now you know

According to the gospel accounts, Jewish authorities in Roman Judea charged Jesus with blasphemy and sought his execution (see Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus), but lacked the authority to have Jesus put to death (John 18:31), so they brought Jesus to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of the province, who authorized Jesus' execution (John 19:16).[24

Jewish deicide - Wikipedia

Read the Bible not Wiki. Roman charge against Jesus was sedition.

I'm quite certain that the Catholics throughout most of history said Jesus was killed by Jews, because of the New Testament.

Blood libels of the medieval ages. Signs of an ignorant mind.

Everyone's picking on the poor Jews.

Then tell us how do Jews get to kill a God? Special powers? Ha ha ha.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine Releases Statement Calling for More Action Against Israel
posted on: Jun 14, 2017

Picture: House of Commons Seminar on Plight of Christians Living in Palestine

By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer

The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine released a statement Monday calling for all Christians to condemn Israel’s occupation of Palestine and that they take more active measures in fighting for the rights of Palestinians.

In the open letter addressed to World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Movement, the NCCOP outlined a list of nine demands which included the recognition of Israeli apartheid, condemnation of the Balfour Agreement and that Christians take a stronger stance against religious extremism.

The NCCOP believes Christian organizations in Israel and abroad haven’t seized an active enough role when it comes to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as well as its treatment of Palestinians. The open letter comes as the organization meets in Bethlehem this month and following US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel in late May.

“We are still suffering because of one political declaration from a Western Empire, based on a twisted theological premise,” the NCCOP said of the western nations supporting Israel.

“Even some churches and few Christian leaders supported the establishment of the colonial state in our land, and totally ignored – even dehumanized – the nation, our people that had already existed here for centuries and paid the price for atrocities committed in Europe.”

Among the aforementioned demands, the NCCOP also wants the United Kingdom to formally recognize and ask for forgiveness of the Palestinian people in reference to the Balfour declaration. Named after British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, the 1917 declaration send to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild posited the notion of an ethno-religious state in the middle-east and is largely recognized as the impetus for a British zionist movement following the First World War.

The NCCOP’s statement follows a growing trend over the past couple years in the United States and other western nations in condemning Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, which has been characterized by the United Nations as an “apartheid system.”

Father George Shalhoub of the Basilica of Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Livonia Michigan spoke to Arab America in response to the NCCOP’s statement saying, “We support the NCCOP and wish to warn the world that unless something happens, the christian conscience will die, and the world will lose its basic humanity. We have heard enough speeches, promises, and agreements. It is the time to act, it is the time of essence not only for good Palestinian christians, but the Middle East in general must take precedence…. The whole region is threatened. So, we send our prayer and support for the NCCOP.”

The NCCOP’s statement also comes a week after the 50 year anniversary of the Six Day War between Israel and surrounding Middle-Eastern countries which established the Israeli borders in Palestine in place today

Palestinian Christians Calling for More Action Against Israel

Israel is the only place in the Middle East that Christians aren't being ethnically cleansed you moron.

As if no Palestinian Christians have been killed by Israel over the years?

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

According to the gospel accounts, Jewish authorities in Roman Judea charged Jesus with blasphemy and sought his execution (see Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus), but lacked the authority to have Jesus put to death (John 18:31), so they brought Jesus to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of the province, who authorized Jesus' execution (John 19:16).[24

Jewish deicide - Wikipedia

Read the Bible not Wiki. Roman charge against Jesus was sedition.

I'm quite certain that the Catholics throughout most of history said Jesus was killed by Jews, because of the New Testament.

Blood libels of the medieval ages. Signs of an ignorant mind.

Everyone's picking on the poor Jews.

Then tell us how do Jews get to kill a God? Special powers? Ha ha ha.

I didn't say anything of the sorts.
I don't know if Jesus was the son of God.
I'm agnostic after-all.

 

[Roudy]

National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine Releases Statement Calling for More Action Against Israel
posted on: Jun 14, 2017

Picture: House of Commons Seminar on Plight of Christians Living in Palestine

By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer

The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine released a statement Monday calling for all Christians to condemn Israel’s occupation of Palestine and that they take more active measures in fighting for the rights of Palestinians.

In the open letter addressed to World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Movement, the NCCOP outlined a list of nine demands which included the recognition of Israeli apartheid, condemnation of the Balfour Agreement and that Christians take a stronger stance against religious extremism.

The NCCOP believes Christian organizations in Israel and abroad haven’t seized an active enough role when it comes to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as well as its treatment of Palestinians. The open letter comes as the organization meets in Bethlehem this month and following US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel in late May.

“We are still suffering because of one political declaration from a Western Empire, based on a twisted theological premise,” the NCCOP said of the western nations supporting Israel.

“Even some churches and few Christian leaders supported the establishment of the colonial state in our land, and totally ignored – even dehumanized – the nation, our people that had already existed here for centuries and paid the price for atrocities committed in Europe.”

Among the aforementioned demands, the NCCOP also wants the United Kingdom to formally recognize and ask for forgiveness of the Palestinian people in reference to the Balfour declaration. Named after British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, the 1917 declaration send to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild posited the notion of an ethno-religious state in the middle-east and is largely recognized as the impetus for a British zionist movement following the First World War.

The NCCOP’s statement follows a growing trend over the past couple years in the United States and other western nations in condemning Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, which has been characterized by the United Nations as an “apartheid system.”

Father George Shalhoub of the Basilica of Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Livonia Michigan spoke to Arab America in response to the NCCOP’s statement saying, “We support the NCCOP and wish to warn the world that unless something happens, the christian conscience will die, and the world will lose its basic humanity. We have heard enough speeches, promises, and agreements. It is the time to act, it is the time of essence not only for good Palestinian christians, but the Middle East in general must take precedence…. The whole region is threatened. So, we send our prayer and support for the NCCOP.”

The NCCOP’s statement also comes a week after the 50 year anniversary of the Six Day War between Israel and surrounding Middle-Eastern countries which established the Israeli borders in Palestine in place today

Palestinian Christians Calling for More Action Against Israel

Israel is the only place in the Middle East that Christians aren't being ethnically cleansed you moron.

As if no Palestinian Christians have been killed by Israel over the years?

Not too long ago, Christians comprised of 20% of the population of the Middle East, now it's only 4% and decreasing even more rapidly. It isn't the Jews that are killing and committing ethnic cleansing on the Christians. Israel is a refugee in fact.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine Releases Statement Calling for More Action Against Israel
posted on: Jun 14, 2017

Picture: House of Commons Seminar on Plight of Christians Living in Palestine

By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer

The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine released a statement Monday calling for all Christians to condemn Israel’s occupation of Palestine and that they take more active measures in fighting for the rights of Palestinians.

In the open letter addressed to World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Movement, the NCCOP outlined a list of nine demands which included the recognition of Israeli apartheid, condemnation of the Balfour Agreement and that Christians take a stronger stance against religious extremism.

The NCCOP believes Christian organizations in Israel and abroad haven’t seized an active enough role when it comes to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as well as its treatment of Palestinians. The open letter comes as the organization meets in Bethlehem this month and following US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel in late May.

“We are still suffering because of one political declaration from a Western Empire, based on a twisted theological premise,” the NCCOP said of the western nations supporting Israel.

“Even some churches and few Christian leaders supported the establishment of the colonial state in our land, and totally ignored – even dehumanized – the nation, our people that had already existed here for centuries and paid the price for atrocities committed in Europe.”

Among the aforementioned demands, the NCCOP also wants the United Kingdom to formally recognize and ask for forgiveness of the Palestinian people in reference to the Balfour declaration. Named after British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, the 1917 declaration send to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild posited the notion of an ethno-religious state in the middle-east and is largely recognized as the impetus for a British zionist movement following the First World War.

The NCCOP’s statement follows a growing trend over the past couple years in the United States and other western nations in condemning Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, which has been characterized by the United Nations as an “apartheid system.”

Father George Shalhoub of the Basilica of Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Livonia Michigan spoke to Arab America in response to the NCCOP’s statement saying, “We support the NCCOP and wish to warn the world that unless something happens, the christian conscience will die, and the world will lose its basic humanity. We have heard enough speeches, promises, and agreements. It is the time to act, it is the time of essence not only for good Palestinian christians, but the Middle East in general must take precedence…. The whole region is threatened. So, we send our prayer and support for the NCCOP.”

The NCCOP’s statement also comes a week after the 50 year anniversary of the Six Day War between Israel and surrounding Middle-Eastern countries which established the Israeli borders in Palestine in place today

Palestinian Christians Calling for More Action Against Israel

Israel is the only place in the Middle East that Christians aren't being ethnically cleansed you moron.

As if no Palestinian Christians have been killed by Israel over the years?

Not too long ago, Christians comprised of 20% of the population of the Middle East, now it's only 4% and decreasing even more rapidly. It isn't the Jews that are killing and committing ethnic cleansing in the Jews.

Didn't say that I support the Muslims of the Middle-East, now have I?
I just support statehood for Muslims without nations in the region like Kurds, and Palestinians.

 

[Roudy]

Israel is a parasite to the United States
Remember the US can survive without Israel
But Israel cannot survive without the United States/

US technology industry, and, thus, the American economy, depend on Israel

Those jobs would be in the U.S, if Israel didn't do it cheaper.

Israel does it better, because it's people are highly educated and prepared to work in these industries, unlike dumbfucks like you.

Israel's Pisa scores, and IQ scores are actually kind of modest.

Again with the reading comprehension problem. I said the Israelis are one of the most educated and therefore most qualified for this industry.

You are pathetic and all you have is your bigotry and these delusions of racial superiority.

 

[Roudy]

Funny the kikes only molest White kids.

No that's what Catholics priests do.

Don't create a diversion. The subject is **** pedo attacks on White Children. What do "the chosen" have to say in defense of charges of organized attacks on White Children? This is why the edomite has been politely asked to deliver himself out of White Nations.

What do you antisemtic pigs have to say about the hundreds of thousands of white kids raped by your Catholic priests? I suggest you close the door of that criminal organization called the Vatican and put the pedophile criminals running it in jail. Then you confiscate and sell all its assets and and give them to their victims as compensation. That would be the right thing to do.

 

[Cossack1483]

All I'm asking from the 2% is that they make isreal great, Netanyahoo himself admits they ALL would be safer in their "homeland". Well? The vatican has been **** friendly since Luther . WTF are you talking about?

 

[Roudy]

National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine Releases Statement Calling for More Action Against Israel
posted on: Jun 14, 2017

Picture: House of Commons Seminar on Plight of Christians Living in Palestine

By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer

The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine released a statement Monday calling for all Christians to condemn Israel’s occupation of Palestine and that they take more active measures in fighting for the rights of Palestinians.

In the open letter addressed to World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Movement, the NCCOP outlined a list of nine demands which included the recognition of Israeli apartheid, condemnation of the Balfour Agreement and that Christians take a stronger stance against religious extremism.

The NCCOP believes Christian organizations in Israel and abroad haven’t seized an active enough role when it comes to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as well as its treatment of Palestinians. The open letter comes as the organization meets in Bethlehem this month and following US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel in late May.

“We are still suffering because of one political declaration from a Western Empire, based on a twisted theological premise,” the NCCOP said of the western nations supporting Israel.

“Even some churches and few Christian leaders supported the establishment of the colonial state in our land, and totally ignored – even dehumanized – the nation, our people that had already existed here for centuries and paid the price for atrocities committed in Europe.”

Among the aforementioned demands, the NCCOP also wants the United Kingdom to formally recognize and ask for forgiveness of the Palestinian people in reference to the Balfour declaration. Named after British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, the 1917 declaration send to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild posited the notion of an ethno-religious state in the middle-east and is largely recognized as the impetus for a British zionist movement following the First World War.

The NCCOP’s statement follows a growing trend over the past couple years in the United States and other western nations in condemning Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, which has been characterized by the United Nations as an “apartheid system.”

Father George Shalhoub of the Basilica of Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Livonia Michigan spoke to Arab America in response to the NCCOP’s statement saying, “We support the NCCOP and wish to warn the world that unless something happens, the christian conscience will die, and the world will lose its basic humanity. We have heard enough speeches, promises, and agreements. It is the time to act, it is the time of essence not only for good Palestinian christians, but the Middle East in general must take precedence…. The whole region is threatened. So, we send our prayer and support for the NCCOP.”

The NCCOP’s statement also comes a week after the 50 year anniversary of the Six Day War between Israel and surrounding Middle-Eastern countries which established the Israeli borders in Palestine in place today

Palestinian Christians Calling for More Action Against Israel

Israel is the only place in the Middle East that Christians aren't being ethnically cleansed you moron.

As if no Palestinian Christians have been killed by Israel over the years?

Not too long ago, Christians comprised of 20% of the population of the Middle East, now it's only 4% and decreasing even more rapidly. It isn't the Jews that are killing and committing ethnic cleansing in the Jews.

Didn't say that I support the Muslims of the Middle-East, now have I?
I just support statehood for Muslims without nations in the region like Kurds, and Palestinians.

Cause we can see how great all these Muslim states treat their Christians and non Muslim minorities, right? Your bigotry has blinded you.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine Releases Statement Calling for More Action Against Israel
posted on: Jun 14, 2017

Picture: House of Commons Seminar on Plight of Christians Living in Palestine

By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer

The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine released a statement Monday calling for all Christians to condemn Israel’s occupation of Palestine and that they take more active measures in fighting for the rights of Palestinians.

In the open letter addressed to World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Movement, the NCCOP outlined a list of nine demands which included the recognition of Israeli apartheid, condemnation of the Balfour Agreement and that Christians take a stronger stance against religious extremism.

The NCCOP believes Christian organizations in Israel and abroad haven’t seized an active enough role when it comes to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as well as its treatment of Palestinians. The open letter comes as the organization meets in Bethlehem this month and following US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel in late May.

“We are still suffering because of one political declaration from a Western Empire, based on a twisted theological premise,” the NCCOP said of the western nations supporting Israel.

“Even some churches and few Christian leaders supported the establishment of the colonial state in our land, and totally ignored – even dehumanized – the nation, our people that had already existed here for centuries and paid the price for atrocities committed in Europe.”

Among the aforementioned demands, the NCCOP also wants the United Kingdom to formally recognize and ask for forgiveness of the Palestinian people in reference to the Balfour declaration. Named after British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, the 1917 declaration send to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild posited the notion of an ethno-religious state in the middle-east and is largely recognized as the impetus for a British zionist movement following the First World War.

The NCCOP’s statement follows a growing trend over the past couple years in the United States and other western nations in condemning Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, which has been characterized by the United Nations as an “apartheid system.”

Father George Shalhoub of the Basilica of Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Livonia Michigan spoke to Arab America in response to the NCCOP’s statement saying, “We support the NCCOP and wish to warn the world that unless something happens, the christian conscience will die, and the world will lose its basic humanity. We have heard enough speeches, promises, and agreements. It is the time to act, it is the time of essence not only for good Palestinian christians, but the Middle East in general must take precedence…. The whole region is threatened. So, we send our prayer and support for the NCCOP.”

The NCCOP’s statement also comes a week after the 50 year anniversary of the Six Day War between Israel and surrounding Middle-Eastern countries which established the Israeli borders in Palestine in place today

Palestinian Christians Calling for More Action Against Israel

Israel is the only place in the Middle East that Christians aren't being ethnically cleansed you moron.

As if no Palestinian Christians have been killed by Israel over the years?

Not too long ago, Christians comprised of 20% of the population of the Middle East, now it's only 4% and decreasing even more rapidly. It isn't the Jews that are killing and committing ethnic cleansing in the Jews.

Didn't say that I support the Muslims of the Middle-East, now have I?
I just support statehood for Muslims without nations in the region like Kurds, and Palestinians.

Cause we can see how great all these Muslim states treat their Christians and non Muslim minorities, right? Your bigotry has blinded you.

Yes, Islamic ISIS has been massacring Christians in mass.

I certainly don't support ISIS.

But, isn't it something how little coverage the Jewish mainstream media shows of these Christian massacres?

 

[Roudy]

Israel is the only place in the Middle East that Christians aren't being ethnically cleansed you moron.

As if no Palestinian Christians have been killed by Israel over the years?

Not too long ago, Christians comprised of 20% of the population of the Middle East, now it's only 4% and decreasing even more rapidly. It isn't the Jews that are killing and committing ethnic cleansing in the Jews.

Didn't say that I support the Muslims of the Middle-East, now have I?
I just support statehood for Muslims without nations in the region like Kurds, and Palestinians.

Cause we can see how great all these Muslim states treat their Christians and non Muslim minorities, right? Your bigotry has blinded you.

Yes, Islamic ISIS has been massacring Christians in mass.

I certainly don't support ISIS.

But, isn't it something how little coverage the Jewish mainstream media shows of these Christian massacres?

ISIS is late to the party you moron. This ethnic cleansing has been occurring now for many decades. All over the Middle East.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

As if no Palestinian Christians have been killed by Israel over the years?

Not too long ago, Christians comprised of 20% of the population of the Middle East, now it's only 4% and decreasing even more rapidly. It isn't the Jews that are killing and committing ethnic cleansing in the Jews.

Didn't say that I support the Muslims of the Middle-East, now have I?
I just support statehood for Muslims without nations in the region like Kurds, and Palestinians.

Cause we can see how great all these Muslim states treat their Christians and non Muslim minorities, right? Your bigotry has blinded you.

Yes, Islamic ISIS has been massacring Christians in mass.

I certainly don't support ISIS.

But, isn't it something how little coverage the Jewish mainstream media shows of these Christian massacres?

ISIS is late to the party you moron. This ethnic cleansing has been occurring now for many decades. All over the Middle East.

Yet, the Jewish dominated media, and Jewish dominated Hollywood, in general refuse to cover these Muslim massacres of Christians, how come?

 

[Coyote]

This thread has been some what cleaned of off topic material. The topic is not religious pedophilia claims. It is not about events thousands of years ago either. It is why support Israel, the Israel of today. Generic religion bashing belongs in the Badlands.

Get back on topic please.

 

[Roudy]

Not too long ago, Christians comprised of 20% of the population of the Middle East, now it's only 4% and decreasing even more rapidly. It isn't the Jews that are killing and committing ethnic cleansing in the Jews.

Didn't say that I support the Muslims of the Middle-East, now have I?
I just support statehood for Muslims without nations in the region like Kurds, and Palestinians.

Cause we can see how great all these Muslim states treat their Christians and non Muslim minorities, right? Your bigotry has blinded you.

Yes, Islamic ISIS has been massacring Christians in mass.

I certainly don't support ISIS.

But, isn't it something how little coverage the Jewish mainstream media shows of these Christian massacres?

ISIS is late to the party you moron. This ethnic cleansing has been occurring now for many decades. All over the Middle East.

Yet, the Jewish dominated media, and Jewish dominated Hollywood, in general refuse to cover these Muslim massacres of Christians, how come?

"Jewish Media", spreads lies about Israel? Listen to yourself. Ha ha ha.

If you really care about Christians you should think twice when you bash Israel, but since you are a garden variety Polish antisemite, your hatred has blinded you.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Didn't say that I support the Muslims of the Middle-East, now have I?
I just support statehood for Muslims without nations in the region like Kurds, and Palestinians.

Cause we can see how great all these Muslim states treat their Christians and non Muslim minorities, right? Your bigotry has blinded you.

Yes, Islamic ISIS has been massacring Christians in mass.

I certainly don't support ISIS.

But, isn't it something how little coverage the Jewish mainstream media shows of these Christian massacres?

ISIS is late to the party you moron. This ethnic cleansing has been occurring now for many decades. All over the Middle East.

Yet, the Jewish dominated media, and Jewish dominated Hollywood, in general refuse to cover these Muslim massacres of Christians, how come?

If you really care about Christians you should think twice when you bash Israel, but since you are a garden variety Polish antisemite, your hatred has blinded you.

What does Israel have to do with Christians?

You prove to us why Poles shouldn't like Jews, you blame Poland for the Holocaust, you bash Catholics as pedos, and bash Whites as Neanderthals.

Why should Polish White Catholics appreciate you?

 

[rylah]

Cause we can see how great all these Muslim states treat their Christians and non Muslim minorities, right? Your bigotry has blinded you.

Yes, Islamic ISIS has been massacring Christians in mass.

I certainly don't support ISIS.

But, isn't it something how little coverage the Jewish mainstream media shows of these Christian massacres?

ISIS is late to the party you moron. This ethnic cleansing has been occurring now for many decades. All over the Middle East.

Yet, the Jewish dominated media, and Jewish dominated Hollywood, in general refuse to cover these Muslim massacres of Christians, how come?

If you really care about Christians you should think twice when you bash Israel, but since you are a garden variety Polish antisemite, your hatred has blinded you.

What does Israel have to do with Christians?

You prove to us why Poles shouldn't like Jews, you blame Poland for the Holocaust, you bash Catholics as pedos, and bash Whites as Neanderthals.

Why should Polish White Catholics appreciate you?

Does Israel asks the Polish people to "appreciate" them...I mean are You a child?
Israel is much more pragmatic, and business oriented. That's one of the reasons Israel manages to work, and cooperate with Arab countries.

In 2016, trade between Israel and the European Union totaled €34.3 billion Euros[23] of which trade between Israel and Poland totaled $682 million USD.[23] Israel's main exports to Poland include: gas turbines, packaged medicaments, calcium phosphate, fruits and vegetables and medical instruments. Poland's main exports to Israel include: food based products, textiles processing machines, vehicle chassis, cars, buses, dairy and wheat.[23]


Do You think Poland was the only one, that realized the potential of Israeli medicine, technology and gas?
Or do You think we trade because of a romantic love?