Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, was over 80% Christian under Israeli control.
In 1995, the Palestinian Authority took over.
After 30 years, Bethlehem is now less than 10% Christian.
This is what ethnic cleansing looks like.
Greetings, President Trump,
You may have secured a temporary deal, but you've shaken the trust of almost everyone around you except perhaps JD Vance and Iran's Supreme Leader. Attacking friends who stood with you in wartime while defending an enemy that attacked both of you is how nations stop trusting you, even if they keep smiling for the cameras. The way many of us, including me, see it, Israel is America's biggest ally in the Middle East. Telling Israel not to hit Hezbollah for the sake of a deal with Iran is like telling America not to hit al-Qaeda because you're negotiating with Hamas.
And a deal that lasts only 60 days? That's not diplomacy, that's a ceasefire with an expiry date shorter than a carton of milk.
The only binding and immediate parts of the clownish and humiliating deal are to return the status quo ante in the Strait of Hormuz.
It’s just a ramped-up version of the ceasefire in place since April and an agreement to continue talking. It’s a bad document, but Vance was the catastrophe.
It didn’t need to be the greatest communications disaster since Monica Lewinsky and the greatest loss of American prestige since Vietnam. And for no real reason.
The botched rollout, the defeatist messaging from an open declinist and acolyte of Tucker Carlson who simply relished using the opportunity to smack down Israel and “neocons,” apparently not concerned at all about the impact on 50 million evangelicals. Just nasty, angry, stupid stuff. Self-own after self-own. A litany of unforced errors.
All this was summarised by the tragicomic signing at Versailles.
The lesson: if you let truly incompetent people run things, the results will be indistinguishable from actual sabotage.
Douglas Murray: "Imagine what kind of a psychopath you have to be to gang rape a girl and then shoot her in the head. Most won't be proud of that, but Hamas is."
The vast majority of Gazans celebrated this.
If the first half of the week was taken up praising Iran, the second half was spent excoriating Israel, our great ally in the Middle East, who just fought by our side in this war against an enemy we share.
JD Vance on Israel opposing the MOU: "What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have."
Israel negotiated or accepted peace deals in 1947, 1949, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1993, 1994x2, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2020x3, 2021
Maybe blame the terrorist orgs that just want Israel & AMERICA'S destruction, rather than the ally that has been fighting alongside the US
@ZionismExposedx Israel ain’t the problem…
Arabs are from Arabia.
Jews are from Judea & Samaria.
#AnInconvienentTruth
I wonder how many femtoseconds you & all of the other #UsefulIdiots would last living under Islamist Jihadist Sharia Law?!
Question: If the targets struck by the United States and Israel in Iran were military, nuclear, and regime-linked facilities, what exactly is the $300 billion reconstruction fund going to rebuild?
JD Vance likes to threaten Israel by pointing out how much of our weapons come from the US, but he completely ignores history. This dependency was manufactured by Washington. What does he want us to do, buy our jets from China? Or maybe he wants Israel to build its own?
Let's remind him that back in the 1980s, Israel was developing the Lavi, a fighter jet that would easily be one of the best in the world today. It was the US that pressured and forced Israel to cancel the project because American defense contractors didn't want the competition. You can't force us to shut down our independent fighter jet program to protect US corporate profits, and then turn around and complain that we rely on US jets. If Israel has to fully decouple and build its own platforms again, we can. But don't pretend this dependency wasn't your choice.