They won’t celebrate Christmas this year in the birthplace of Christ; the people of Bethlehem have too many friends and relatives in Gaza. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
Though Putin, Lavrov and Russia’s Armed Forces will be busier than Santa this Yuletide, even this Gazan genocide that NATO brazenly rolls out before our eyes is not a cause to despair.
Although it is ten years since I spent Christmas in Bethlehem (where Baby Jesus was born), I still have very fond memories of it, and of the huge crowds that greeted the Latin Patriarch as he made his way through Manger Square and into the Basilica of the Nativity. As Palestine’s Christian marching bands put on a great display, I was swept along with his security (sic) detail and ended up by the altar’s left hand side as he conducted the service.
Truth be told, the crowds outside impressed me more, little cuties attired in traditional Palestinian clothing and every little boy and girl, whether Muslim or Christian, wearing a goofy Santa hat. Oh Happy Day.
At 3am on Christmas morning, I watched the Palestinians troop in through the checkpoints to work for their Israeli overlords. If you can imagine an elderly Orthodox priest in his late 70s or early 80s, that is what most of them looked like as sleep, rest, recreation and recuperation were strangers to these modern day slaves. Beyond The Shepherds’ Fields, where the angels told the shepherds that Jesus was about to be born, the Israelis were squeezing, drop by drop, the life blood out of the descendents of those very same shepherds.
That process is currently in full throttle in Gaza, whose heroic surgeons are amputating all four limbs from no less heroic infants, shredded like salami by American-supplied Israeli ordnance and all without an anaesthetic, not even an aspirin.
Though NATO’s hardline Daily Telegraph tells us there will be no Christmas tree or Christmas lights in the little town of Bethlehem this year, how could there be when their compatriots, friends and relatives are being sharded in Gaza?
