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‘No joy in our hearts’: Bethlehem’s Christians face heartbreak at Christmas

The war has brought Bethlehem’s tourism – a bedrock of its economy – to a standstill at the time of the year when it usually peaks. Where visitors from aroun...#AlJazeeraEnglish #Bethlehem #BethlehemFestivities #Christmas #Christmas2023 #ChristmasCanceled #EastJerusalem #GazaWar #Israel #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelHamasWar #Jerusalem #OccupiedEastJerusalem #Palestine #PalestinianChristians #artsandculture
‘No joy in our hearts’: Bethlehem’s Christians face heartbreak at Christmas

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The great Jewish scholar Yeshayahu Leibowitz, whom Isaiah Berlin called “the conscience of #Israel,” saw the mortal danger to Israel of its #colonial project.
He warned that if Israel did not separate church and state and end its colonial #occupation of the #Palestinians it would give rise to a #corrupt rabbinate that would warp Judaism into a fascistic cult.
“Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism,” said Leibowitz, who died in 1994.
He saw that the blind veneration of the #military, especially after the 1967 war in which Israel captured the #WestBank and #EastJerusalem, would result in the degeneration of the Jewish society and the death of democracy.

#Palestine #Palestinian #apartheid #genocide #violence #evil #HumanRights

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