Seasonal ZioNazi Whine - Walled Nativity Scene Not Kosher
Walled Nativity Scene Borders On Anti-Semitism, Jewish Leaders Say
Julie Stahl
Jerusalem Bureau Chief
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The sale of Nativity scenes with a wall running through the middle to symbolize Israel's security barrier borders on anti-Semitism, Jewish groups are saying.
The Amos Trust, a British Christian charity that works with needy communities around the world, is selling the traditional Nativity sets with a political twist, noting that the wise men won't reach the stable because of the wall. The Amos Trust says its Nativity sets are made by Palestinian carpenters from olive wood from Bethlehem.
Israel started building its security barrier -- a series of walls and fences -- in response to an upsurge in Palestinian terrorism that began in 2000. When it is complete, the barrier will stretch nearly 500 miles, dividing Israel from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in the West Bank.
Near Bethlehem, the barrier separates the town where Jesus was born from Jerusalem.
"The security barrier has been deemed a necessary response to terrorism and indeed has saved many lives, both Jewish and Arab," said Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
"The irony is that Mary and Joseph would have been a Jewish couple, and if they were travelling through the West Bank today, [their lives would have been at risk] from the same terrorists that have targeted so many Israelis," Benjamin told Cybercast News Service.
Other Jewish leaders were dismayed as well by the politically motivated Nativity sets.
"It's a shameful, cheap gimmick and it's destroying the spirit of Christmas by politicizing it," Arieh O'Sullivan, an ADL spokesman in Jerusalem, told Cybercast News Service. "It's amazing how low people will go to make a sale."
O'Sullivan said the sets "come close to resurrecting the old anti-Semitic canard that says Jews killed Christ."
"The British have a very long history of anti-Semitism," said Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America. That, coupled with the fact that the most popular name for a newborn in England is now Mohammed, tells what is happening to England and Europe, he said.
"I'm not surprised by this type of racism against Jews and Israel," said Klein in a telephone interview.
"It's not a good idea at all to use any religious symbols or events for anti-Israel propaganda," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Aryeh Mekel told Cybercast News Service.
Many Palestinian Christians blame the security barrier for their financial troubles, which have prompted many Christians to leave Bethlehem and other Palestinian Authority areas.
Bethlehem Pastor Naim Khoury said Nativity scenes are supposed to depict a real-life event that did not include a security barrier. "It's a real story. It's not a fake story," Khoury told Cybercast News Service. "The wise men, shepherds, sheep should all be included."
David Parsons, spokesman for the pro-Israel International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, called the Nativity sets a "disgraceful political exploitation of the Bible's message.
"The message of the incarnation is too precious for any Christians to be abusing it in this way."
the zoos really don't like this one!
hear how they call THE TRUTH 'anti-semitic', when the asskenazi aren't even semites!
The irony is that Mary and Joseph would have been a Jewish couple, and if they were travelling through the West Bank today, [their lives would have been at risk] from the same terrorists that have targeted so many Israelis," Benjamin told Cybercast News Service.
Correction: The irony is that Mary and Joseph would have fled the 'israel' of today, lest their Son be martyred by the pharisee-devil-worshipper, flim-flam, sheckel-shill-shamites!
There isn't a single statement in there defending the geographically accurate scene depicted in the nativity set.
Instead they included this statement from a Palestinian, but I can't understand why:
Am I missing something here? Is he defending the inclusion of the wall? If so, why didn't he mention it?
As for the rest of their zionist garbage - the more they whine about the communication of patently obvious truths, the more clear it becomes to thinking human beings how hysterical and unfounded their assertions are and how desperately they're trying to shape our reality to suit their own interests.
It's hard to imagine a more greedy, selfish, and arrogant group of people.
They want EVERYTHING, their way - they divide the land then insist that we act as if they didn't.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Their protests against this valid statement and low-key protest against Israeli aggression ring hollow and expose them as the hypocrites they truly are.
Apart from the sheer audacity of the occupiers and their fanclub, what really freaked me out was...
Arieh what? O'Sullivan? What is the world coming to?
thanks, sullivan - you put a really broad smile on my face!
It is scary though isn't it?
The beast needs several masks in order to hide its true "beauty."
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"Money" has no value - people do.
"When it is complete, the barrier will stretch nearly 500 miles, dividing Israel from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in the West Bank."
The statement is inaccurate to say the least, but that may very well be on purpose.
The first half of the sentence may give the uninformed reader the impression that the wall, which is much taller than the universally despised Berlin wall is actually built on the border between Israel and what is supposed to be Palestine according to the UN resolution that created both countries.
The trouble is that the Israeli border is nowhere near Bethlehem, it is between West and East Jerusalem.
The second half of the sentence talks about the Palestinian controlled areas of the West Bank, not of the West Bank, which should rightly be Palestinian according to the UN resolutions.
This is utterly misleading, because there are in effect no such areas as the illegal settlements and the IDF and other forces which are there to uphold the illegality by its mere violence makes a mockery of Palestinian control.
In effect that makes the wall entirely superfluous.
The wall has not been built in order to separate nations, it has been built in order to make any Palestinian attempt to remain on their land impossible because the wall, barrier, fence or whatever effectively cuts off the population from its livelihood, i.e. its olive groves, its markets etc. etc.
Personally, I find the olive wood carving very kind and diplomatic, because it is very low and almost beautiful compared with the concrete original.
Made Brani, you are totally correct about the inaccuracies in the article, but it was posted to illustrate the sheer chutzpah of the occupier, even in the face of such a diplomatic form of protest.
I strongly believe that the entire land known now as Israel is illegally occupied, so discussions about where the border lies are of little relevance to me. The reality is there should be no border. The country is Palestine and it makes no difference when various bits of it (and neighbouring countries) were stolen - they are all illegally occupied.
QRS, I'm glad that raised a smile! My initial thought on seeing the name was "is no surname safe anymore?"