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...instance? Hamad also took issue with the Israeli security wall but failed to mention that it was put in place to stop suicide bombers from crossing and snipers from shooting at apartments in the southern part of Jerusalem. When I was stationed in Bethlehem in the mid-1980s, the Christian population was thriving, and tourists arrived by the busload throughout the year, not just at Christmastime. One needs to ask what the difference is between then and now. Aron B. Safran, Willow Street...
...What an odd article. It left the impression that the Israeli security fence is somehow responsible for the tensions between Bethlehem's Christians and Muslims and the emigration of Hamad's Christian friends. Unmentioned was the unremitting pressure from Islamic extremists to purge the city of its Christian residents. Christians have been murdered in Bethlehem, families driven into exile and the Church of the Nativity used as a fortress by Islamic gangs. And all Hamad could bring himself to mention are the wall and checkpoints. Daniel Polish, Poughkeepsie...
...instance? Hamad also took issue with the Israeli security wall but failed to mention that it was put in place to stop suicide bombers from crossing and snipers from shooting at apartments in the southern part of Jerusalem. When I was stationed in Bethlehem in the mid-1980s, the Christian population was thriving, and tourists arrived by the busload throughout the year, not just at Christmastime. One needs to ask what the difference is between then and now. Aron B. Safran, WILLOW STREET...
When the Discovery Channel aired a TV documentary last year raising the possibility that archeologists had found the family tomb of Jesus Christ in the hills behind Jerusalem, it caused a huge backlash among Christians. The claim, after all, challenged one of the cornerstones of Christian faith - that Jesus, after his crucifixion, rose bodily to heaven in his physical form...
...ossuaries of Joseph, Mary, Jesus, the son of Joseph, Mariamne (possibly Mary Magdalene, say the filmmakers) and Judah, son of Jesus. Given the highly explosive nature of its conclusion and its slapdash sleuthing, it was no surprise that the film was panned by some academics and many Christian clerics...