Challenge from Duane: Why did Israel prevent Catholic clerics from traveling to Gaza?
Father Manuel Musallam of Gaza City’s Holy Family Catholic Church canceld it’s Chrstmas Eve Mass to protest to the siege of the Gaza and told Ma’an News Agency “MIdnight Mass has been canceled because Israel prevented Christian clerics from traveling to Bethlehem.”
They have also canceled all travel to Gaza after ARchbishop of jerusalem Fouad Twal denounced the siege after a visit one week ago. Why don’t they want the Catholics to be able to have access to the outside world? Gazan Catholics were also forbidden to travel to Bethlehem. Why? Are they supposed to be “terrorists”?
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Answer by Zeno
As you suggest,probably in retaliation for Twals’ courageous press conference last Tuesday. But they have always oppressed Catholics and Eastern Orthodox; on the other hand,they love fringe groups like the so-called fundamentalists; in fact they are building them a “Christian” theme park in Galilee this coming year.
No Catholic Palestinian has ver been implicated in so-called “terrorist” activity,so there is clearly no basis for the ban on Gazans goping to Bethlehem. Boomerang,read the question before you answer.
Answer by Samsooma The Idiot
The church is not above the law.
Israel did not prevent Catholic clerks, Israel will not permit entrance to anyone.
Answer by Brynn
Sansoom I think he meant “clerics” meaning clergy,not clerks. They have until this week,so it is discriminatory. If they hadn’t been until now then Twal couldn’t have been there,obviously. As suggested above it is evidently retailation for his speech last week after returning from Gaza.
Answer by Papa Legba Gon’ Come Getcha!
You have blocked any Catholics from answering.. so obviously you are very brave.
You ask a question that the details itself reveal to be a lie.
Please do not speak for us Catholics. You are not authorized to speak on our behalf. You don’t see me out their representing Islam.
Answer by mark
Father Manuel Musallam is wanted by the Israeli for the last 30 years.
Answer by Boomerang
You need to understand some geography.
Bethlehem is in the west bank, not in Gaza.
The clerics were prevented from going FROM gaza INTO the west bank.
Guess what, that’s the price of having your people attack the country you want to travel through.
Answer by mutta_parotta
The Palestinian story: Remember us
Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:55:08 GMT
By Anna Denise Aldis and Dex A. Eastman, Press TV
Remember us in Gaza on December 27, 2008 when at least 230 of us were slain as if we were the filth of the land.
When the passage of time finally brings the men of many lands to the tables of judgment, politicians from countries that have emboldened Israel with their silence will gaze into the eyes of delegations from around the world only to see the same eyes gazing back. Remember us for we may not be at that table.
There are reasons for this.
We were once free to roam the lands of our fathers, to feel happiness and to cry when in despair. From the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River was our realm, but how were we to know what they intended to do to our nation.
They provoked wars and committed the most terrible of sins against the Jewish population, but when it was time to compensate, they put the burden of their own wrongdoings on our shoulders. One nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third.
Everyone had a say, the then president of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the leaders of the Zionist movement and even the representatives of Anglo-Jewry opposed to Zionism. There was no need to canvass Arab opinion.
They sat at round tables, signed agreements, sent the text to other powers for approval but no one consulted us. Remember us the native people of the ancient land of Canaan, Palestine it was called.
We protested, signed petitions, held rallies but to no avail; the process of nullification had already begun. They had decided to create a 100% Jewish state for the Jews of the West who had suffered under anti-Semitism in Europe. Nobody asked whether we were even responsible for the anti-Jewish propaganda in Germany. Remember us who sought your helping hand when they threatened us with annihilation.
Why were we for decades the main victims of the horrific massacre of the Jews by the Germans, Rumanians and Hungarians?
United under the Zionist slogan of ‘A land without a people for a people without a land’, certain powers opened the floodgates by telling Jews that our land is one that lacks inhabitants and must belong to a nation with no land.
They helped the 1948 creation of Israel based on the ‘Judenstaat’ which had been envisaged in 1896 by the founder of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl.
Then the flood suddenly hit us. We were no longer welcome in our own homes, our own towns and villages and on our own lands. They tried to bribe us into leaving the land of our ancestors. They promised to pay for all our expenses for us to leave Palestine and settle in neighboring Arab states.
But how could we leave? How could we leave our homes, our lands, the graves of our fathers and the hopes of our children? How were we supposed to forget and make our children forget that we had roots in Palestine? We objected.
We knew our resistance would cost us dearly, but we were ready to save our lands from the foreign invaders. Those oppressed in the Holocaust were transformed into the tormenter of the Arab population in Palestine.
Remember us in 1948 in the unarmed village Deir Yassin where 254 of us men, women and children were awakened from our sleep with the sound of bombs ripping through neighboring houses. Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups had received orders to uproot us, the Arab population of the village.
They threw bombs into our houses and slaughtered all of us they could find. About twenty-five of us were brought out of our houses on a ‘victory tour’ and then to a stone quarry where they shot us in cold blood.
The Red Cross came to understand our fate when they looked into our lifeless eyes and at nearly 150 of our maimed bodies abandoned in a well.
Several of us survived to tell the story of this indelible blemish carved in the pages of Zionist history.
“I saw a soldier grabbing my sister, Saliha al-Halabi, who was nine months pregnant. He pointed a machine gun at her neck, then emptied its contents into her body. Then he turned into a butcher, and grabbed a knife and ripped open her stomach to take out the slaughtered child with his iniquitous Nazi knife,” Halima Id, a survivor of the attack, told her sister later.
They failed to plant fear in our hearts for what is home if it is not to be cherished?
Remember us in 1953 in Qibya when our women were preparing meals for the men and children and nearly 600 Israeli soldiers moved toward our village. We heard explosions, screaming and artillery fire, but the collapse of our roofs and the following darkness was the last we saw.
The then commander of the “101″ unit, Ariel Sharon, later said that his leaders’ orders had been clear on how to deal with the village. “The orders were utterly clear: Qibya was to be an example to everyone.”
Original documents of the time showed that Sharon personally ordered his troops to achieve “maximal killing and damage to property
Answer by abbahusuk
because ita a racist state
israel is a racist state that ethnically cleansed palestinian jews, muslims and christinians from their land. in order to establish a zionist state.
israel the new apartheid state
Gaza is the new Warsaw
True peace with the one democratic state
Israel :
Created 4 million+ Refugees
World record for UN Violations at 69+
Killed more innocent civilians per capita 50,000+
Has Imprisoned more civilians per cap 250,000+ ,
Has rendered more civilians Handicapped per cap 50,000+
Demolished more homes than any other country 60,000+
Outlawed marriage to Non-Jews,
Destroyed 350 Christian Churches & Mosques 6 Wars in 60 years
254 km of Apartheid Wall(2 berlin walls)
562 Check Points Has Ethnically cleansed 500+ villages
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They should allow clerics in.
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They should not
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