Zionist cops rough up Palestinians protecting their land from “settler” squatters. One can be anti-Zionist and not be anti-Semitic. That’s my position. The Israeli Settler State is a temporary Crusader State. Judaism is permanent and a respected religion. There’s little convergence between the two. Ponder that if you will… one last thing, the settlers are the terrorists, not the Palestinians… get your mind right…
BMD
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 10.12
I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.
Gospel according to St John 8.12
Every day, I wake up and stare at the new illegal Israeli settlement right in front of my kitchen window. It’s been a very different life as a Greek-American living in a Palestinian Christian village that my husband loves so much. This morning, after listening to news that I didn’t understand about a church building put on fire and terrible hate slogans about Christ, I started to call all of my friends to get some information from the ground. Sometimes, just because something is in the news doesn’t mean it happened exactly that way. It was a great comfort that so many people were extremely busy that some of us didn’t exactly know or understand the details of what happened. Somehow, we try every day to continue a normal pattern of working or functioning with terrible evil all around us. How does one keep sanity with such craziness? May God have mercy, since I feel that we’ve gone backwards to the first century.
Finally, at the end of the day, after speaking with Bishop Demetri of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, he confirmed that two unknown men wearing black masks, who broke a bathroom window, attacked the seminary on Mount Zion in Jerusalem before dawn. They threw a homemade bomb, setting the building on fire. The fire department responded by putting the fire out without anyone being hurt in this awful hate crime. Graffiti on the outside walls written in Hebrew blasphemed Christ. My dear friend Dan said that the relics of St Philoumenos were kept at the Mount Zion Seminary until 2009, before being returned to the Church of St Photini at Jacob’s Well, where fanatic settlers brutally killed the saint on 29 November 1979. Bishop Demetri helped me understand that the seminary of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate has operated for more than 300 years with local and Greek teachers giving instruction to about 15 students, aged 12 to 17, in general education and in Greek, English, and Arabic. The new principal is Hieromonk Nicholas, a Greek-Australian. He replaced the late Fr Photius, who served as a principal for over twenty years. The community is peaceful and a witness for Christ’s love and peace.
This vicious attack on our precious holy sites today comes after fanatic settlers also burned a mosque near Bethlehem on Wednesday morning. This terrible violence on Palestinian Christian and Muslim holy places is occurring on the 21st anniversary of the massacre of 29 Palestinian worshipers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by an American-born Israeli settler, Baruch Goldstein. May God forgive him. However, I surely challenge my church leadership to have a loud voice for a just peace.
May the Light of Christ shine in this terrible dark time in the world and may the Love of Christ overpower evil. Let us pray to see the humanity in each other.
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Editor:
THIS is what Ted Cruz praised when he spat on Arab religious leaders. May God forgive him his blasphemy. Why is there is no outcry in the US Congress when Jewish settler terrorists attack? WHY? That’s why I hate Ted Cruz and his ilk so bitterly.
V V Putin stands up for Palestinian Christians. The USA kicks them in the face. I seem to see a difference…
BMD
I’m AGAINST Zionism and AGAINST Anti-Semitism… both equally and without reservation! Here, Bayan Miks do Hava Nagila (and the Russian crowd LOVES it)…
The Zionists in Gaza and the Banderovtsy in Kiev are the same! There’s no real difference between the two… not a tuppence worth that matters. I hate both Zionism and Anti-Semitism! BOTH! EQUALLY AND IN LIKE MEASURE! If you hate Jews, you’re my enemy… if you hate Palestinians, you’re my enemy… that’s that. Pass the kibbeh and the Manischewitz… give me seconds on the matzoh balls and the tabbouleh (and falafel in pita cover both bases, don’t they?)… now, that’s GOOD eats…
BMD
Voices from Russia 
Ted Cruz Uncritically Supports Israel… Israel Did This… If You Vote Republican YOU Support This Too
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On Thursday, witnesses said that Israeli occupation forces critically injured a Palestinian child after shooting him with a rubber-coated steel bullet near the Shufat refugee camp. Yahiya Sami al-Amudi, 10, was walking near a checkpoint by the East Jerusalem refugee camp when Israeli soldiers shot him. First responders took him to the Hadassa Hospital in Ein Karem with a fractured skull, jaw, and left ear, and surgeons had to remove his left eye. Doctors say that he’s in critical condition. Thaer Fasfous, a spokesman for Fatah in the camp, condemned the targeting of children with tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber-coated bullets. Israeli police media contact Micky Rosenfeld said that there were “disturbances” in the Shufat area after locals threw stones at municipality workers. He added that Israeli occupation police used “non-lethal” weapons, “slightly injuring” a 10-year-old boy, who responders took to hospital.
22 May 2015
Falastin News Palestine
http://falastinews.com/2015/05/22/palestinian-boy-10-critically-injured-by-rubber-bullet-in-jerusalem/
Editors:
I am anti-Zionist to the bone… I am anti-anti-Semitic to the bone. This is NOT contradictory. I will stand for no racial hatred. That’s why I oppose anti-Semitism… that’s why I oppose Zionism… that’s why I oppose the US Republican Party with its support of Southern white bigots… that’s why I oppose Galician Uniate integral nationalism with its cries of “Knife the Moskals (Russians)!” and “The Ukraine for Ukrainians Only!” It’s all the same to me. They’re all haters and they’re all evil. FULL STOP.
BMD