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| Damaged Virgin Mary statue in Bethlehem. |
With Christmas just some hours away, tensions are simmering in the city of Bethlehem, Jesus birthplace and the region over President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The controversial December 6 announcement by Trump unleashed demonstrations and clashes, including in the Israeli-occupied Bethlehem, where Christians will mark the birth of Jesus in a midnight mass.
Bethlehem is normally flooded by tourists at this time of year, but has at times appeared almost empty of visitors as nearby clashes between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli army keep people away.
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, said “dozens” of groups had pulled out of planned visits after being scared off by the announcement and subsequent violence.
“Of course this created a tension around Jerusalem and this diverted attention from Christmas,” the Catholic church’s top official in Jerusalem said of Trump’s announcement, but stressing that Christmas celebrations would go ahead as planned.
Of course the official word is that tourism is up, but that is from Netanyahu's ministry of tourism, so much like what comes out of the Trump White House it should probably be completely disregarded.
That is of course unless you would choose to believe a government official trying to tamp down fears of possible violence in such a sacred place, or an archbishop who is merely observing the facts on the ground.
I really think this declaring of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is going to have long term negative effects on the region that could long outlive Trump's hopefully brief presidency.
""I'm very proud to be the prime minister of Israel, a country that says 'Merry Christmas' first to its Christian citizens and to our Christian friends around the world," "Netanyahu’s message comes in the wake of Trump’s outspoken and repeated efforts to champion “Merry Christmas.” During his campaign and the first year of his presidency, Trump repeatedly promised he would end the
ReplyDelete“WAR ON Christmas”—which does or does not actually exist depending on who you ask—and
“make Christmas great again.” <from a jew
who 'murdered' christ!
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/israels-netanyahu-says-his-countrys-holiday-greeting-is-merry-christmas-in-video-message/
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/what-drugs-are-you-taking-trump-gets-owned-online-for-bragging-he-ended-assault-on-merry-christmas/
"theirs is a heartwarming story that puts War back into the WAR on Christmas."
Delete"SPUG started with a bang at the Nov. 14, 1912 meeting of the Working Girls' Vacation Fund. Founded a year earlier to help Manhattan shop clerks set aside a little money each week, the fund had quickly grown to 6,000 members, with savings of $30,000. But those savings faced a jolly nemesis: Christmas. Sapped by the extravagant gifts that female department store clerks were pressured into giving supervisors—often to the tune of TWO week’s worth of wages" {NO!!}
"Not everyone was pleased; some branded them "glum spugs" and predicted "death by spugitis." One fellow actress claimed Mrs. Belmont's group was nothing more than a cover for tightwads."
"the daughter of J.P. Morgan. "The biggest thing about this really big thing is that it is the girls' own," she enthused. "They are doing it themselves."
" Teddy Roosevelt finally put her into a particular fix. "Bully," the Times quoted his approving exclamation. "Can't I be a charter Spug?" By the next day Roosevelt was, as the Times put in a memorable headline, the "FIRST MAN SPUG.""
" "the vulgar habit of giving where when gifts are but a kind of bribe." Men expecting...
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2012/12/the_war_on_christmas_it_started_100_years_ago_with_the_spugs.html
Remember last afministration, the rethugs had conniptions about black friday and people having to workand not be hone with their family? Remember all the faux outrage?
DeleteYet this year black friday sales started on TG day.
We are not stoopid. We hate you faux outrage christmas humpers!
the Jews din't murder Christ. they have been blamed for that forever and it has been the excuse for constant mass murder of Jews and the lies, the never ending lies how the Jews want to ruin Christains , and mostly Germans. the excuse for the mass murder of six million Jews before and during the second world war. Christmas is becoming a fake holiday. every year they run the Grinch- and every year no one seems to get the message. even if you don't believe peace on earth and goodwill to men should be a powerful and wonderful message. welcome Christmas, bring your light. may the new year be better than the last. may we learn from our mistakes.
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COCAINE! RICO! "The USG lack of action on this issue has allowed [Hezbollah] to become one of the biggest transnational organized crime groups in the world.”"
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Debunked. Obama was in serious negotiations to get nukular deal with Iran (which finally happened) and drug arrests would have likely derailed the deal.
DeleteHowever, there was no reason arrests could not have been made after the deal was signed.
Babby Christian enters Christmas Eve late to draw attention to self, heeds pastor's message not at all, spews idiotic false self-aggrandizing claim afterwards:
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I bet they sat home so that he could make his grand entrance,bet he expected them to applaud him too.
Deletewell, they were praising him, weren't they? he is, after all the second coming, is he not?
DeleteWoke up on Christmas and was very disappointed I didn't get my Christmas presents I asked for. I wanted an impeachment and prison terms for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI know!
DeleteI was all set to protest a constitutional crisis when he fired Mueller. But he didn’t.
Guess he thought he’d let his saps have one more holiday before he nukes NK.
Don't dispair,it is a federal holiday after all.
Deletewe all wanted that. we got bath powder and cat toys. i am willing to give up every holiday if it means the end of trump. a new holiday-trumpday! the celebration of the day trump was physically removed from the White House! a holiday for the whole world!
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ReplyDeleteADD IN> vpee 666pence, bitch mcCONnell & $OOn to be president OoRin Hatch tOO!
Je$us Bull~$hitters all!
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DeleteAll Drumpf will beller about is how our great friend and yooge trading partner-Guatemala- signed on to the naming of Jewrusalem as Israel's capitol.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a lazy piece of shit! He is stupid and quite ugly
ReplyDeleteAnd those are his good points.
trump is a deadly form of cancer. disgusting pos.
ReplyDeleteWho is Kenneth trump?
ReplyDeleteHell awaits Donald Trump!
ReplyDeleteThere is no heaven or hell.
DeleteWE have to hold him accountable in THIS life.
Top Marine General Robert Neller: ‘There’s a war coming… prepare for a big ass fight’
ReplyDeleteTensions between Russia and the United States have been overshadowed by the boisterous North Korea Dictator Kim Jung-Un. North Korea may still be considered a threat to America, but one top Marine general thinks there is a war coming and it isn’t going to be with North Korea — but instead with Russia. During his annual Christmas tour, Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller spoke to marines who were at a rotational base in Norway. He explained to the marines that “there’s a war coming.”
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lol. "Trump whaaaa whaaaa whaaa, whaa whaa whaaa"! You sound like 4th graders.
ReplyDeletethey have been fighting over that patch of sand for thousands of years. the birthplace of civilization means the birthplace of religion. the holy books all speak of peace. i guess they don't get read.
ReplyDeleteand you can lay most of it at. trump. however, and this pains me, Bill Clinton is part to blame. he intervened in the Russian elections. i'd like to know why we haven't been told these things before. the Russians know all about it. they hear about everything. we are all going to die because the America thinks we should be the worlds police force. the last war. was we should have been involved in was world war two. superpower doesn't mean we have the right to the whole planet. lets take care of us, first. the evnviroment-that polar bear who was filmed starving to death and i want to know WHY WASN'T IT HELPED! WHY DID I HAVE TO CRY OVER IT!-should be our focus NOW. we are destroying our planet and the Vulcans aren't coming. it's to grow up as a species. maybe we deserve to be destroyed.
ReplyDeleteWell don't fib about things a century ago, all while living comfortably. URA liar. Not a good one either.
Delete2:25. i take you like the orange toddler in the White House, remember that when you get evicted from your house next Christmas because trump and the republicans took your paycheck. the homeless shelter is a grim and dangerous place. and you cannot sleep in the public library anymore.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, then Nazareth, the supposed birth town of Jesus has called off Christmas this year for fear of violence after the Orange Abomination declared Jerusalem Israel's capital. That, despite the fact that they would lose tons and tons of $$$!
ReplyDeleteI also saw some videos of Bethlehem, where the plaza was virtually empty, only a very few people walking around. An eerie sight to say the least!
These countries can do things to hurt amirka, one easy way is not use usa dollars.
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