Maurice Pinay
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NOW - Trump says that his frustrations with NATO "all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland. We want Greenland. They don't want to give it to us, and I said, 'bye bye!'"
EASTER IN IRAN: Christians attend service in Tehran's Saint Sarkis Cathedral
SAVE WEST BANK CHRISTIANS. The Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank has survived the Crusaders, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire. But the latest attacks by Israeli settlers leave its future in question, putting the entire community in danger of disappearing. Jad Isaac, the director general of the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, said: “When Netanyahu says we are the only country that is taking care of the Christians, he’s a liar. He said that in Palestinian Christian communities in the West Bank, 'the strategy is to make life intolerable.” The fierce religious nationalism that the Israeli government has cultivated in recent years has largely been directed at Palestinian Muslims but there has been a rising tide of anti-Christian incidents. The Religious Freedom Data Center (RFDC), an Israeli-run organisation that documents such incidents in Jerusalem, recorded a 65% rise in cases of harassment, many of them involving spitting on Christians. savewestbankchristians.com
The idea that criticism of Israel means anything about Israel's conflicts with its adversaries is very misguided. I think one could genuinely excoriate the United States for Jim Crow in the 1940s and it would have ~zero implications for the need to defeat the Axis Powers.
