"O Little Town of Bethlehem, How Islamic You've Become"

 

The Christians in Bethlehem Now Live in an Overwhelmingly Muslim Town

Jan 4, 2025 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

A report on the increasing despair of Christians in Bethlehem:

 ‘We may face extinction’: Bethlehem’s clergy sound alarm

on exodus and extremism amid ongoing war

by Giorgia Valente, The Media Line, December 26, 2024:

Anna, an Aramean Christian tour operator, told The Media Line, “I have been jobless since October 7. I am currently economically relying on my husband, who sells electronic devices in his shop here, but we have been struggling since neither the PA [Palestinian Authority] nor Israel has been able to help us financially. I used to take tourists on tours in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, but everything changed.”

Anna criticized polarized narratives about the conflict, saying, “I am against any form of violence, and what both sides did to one another is unacceptable. For this reason, I am against the choice of each side to portray itself as the ‘only victims’ because, in this way, they are just polarizing, even more, the perception of this conflict abroad.”

Anna, a Christian living in a Muslim sea, is careful not to lay the blame for Bethlehem’s economic misery on either side —-the Israelis or the Palestinians — though she surely knows that the violence of the Muslim terrorists provoked the Gaza War, and in the West Bank has made necessary the frequent IDF raids. The violence in both places have led foreign tourists to stay away from Bethlehem this year. But Anna can’t allow herself to say that openly. She’s going to sit on the fence, claiming that “what both sides did to one another is unacceptable.” She’s wrong. What Hamas did on October 7, 2023, when 6,000 Hamas members smashed into Israel, torturing, raping, mutilating, and murdering 1,200 Israelis is “unacceptable.. The IDF’s response — a careful campaign in Gaza to kill as many terrorists, and spare as many civilians, as possible — is not only acceptable but admirable, for the tremendous efforts the IDF makes to warn civilians away from sites about to be targeted, by dropping millions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls. But Anna is a Christian living in a town that is 90% Muslim. She doesn’t want trouble. She can’t possibly tell the truth.

“The beauty of our Holy Land, which I gladly define as a whole, despite walls dividing one side from the other, is that there is no black and white, but different shades, that people from the outside often do not see,” she added.

Her husband, a Palestinian ID holder, cannot travel freely as Anna and their children can. She emphasized teaching her children tolerance: “My goal was to teach my kids no resentment toward anyone. The problem of many living here is that they pass their trauma to younger generations and teach hate instead of forgiveness. If we keep doing like this, we will be stuck in this loop of violence forever—Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike,” she noted.

The only children who are raised up to hate “the other” are the Muslim children. The schoolbooks of the Jews and the Christians are not full of the venomous violence found in the schoolbooks provided by UNRWA to Muslim children.

Abood Sobha, a Muslim tour guide and souvenir shop owner, echoed Anna’s struggles. “I am a Muslim Palestinian who benefited from tourism and loved engaging with people from all over the world. I was comfortable economically before the war, and I loved to move from my city to other places like Haifa and Tel Aviv [he was clearly not living in an “open-air prison”] but since I own a Palestinian ID, I have been stuck here for more than a year, and I am mentally exhausted,” he told The Media Line.

“We need and want peace, and we cannot keep going like this. Unfortunately, it seems that here in the West Bank, it may even get worse. Look at Jenin and Tulkarem these days,” he added….

In Jenin, there is a war going on between Hamas and Islamic Jihad on one side, and Fatah — the armed wing of the Palestinian Authority — on the other. Right now, the IDF is letting Fatah attempt on its own to suppress Hamas and the PIJ in Jenin camp. In Tulkarem, it is the IDF itself that is taking on Hamas and PIJ combatants. What Abood Sobha fears is that as long as there is violence in Judea and Samaria, tourists will stay away from Bethlehem, but he is unwilling to blame Hamas and PIJ for stirring up strife by attacking both Fatah and the IDF.

The steady stillicide of Christians moving out of Bethlehem continues. In 2017, there were 23,000 Christians in Bethlehem. In 2024, that figure has dropped to fewer than 10,000. How can religious tourism in Bethlehem by foreign Christians be expected to flourish when there are only a few thousand Christians left in the city? Will Christians from abroad, once made aware of the reasons for the precipitous decline in Bethlehem’s Christian population, want to buy Christian souvenirs from Muslim shopkeepers, the very people who helped drive Christians out of one of the most sacred sites in Christendom?

The Christians in Bethlehem live now in an overwhelmingly Muslim town, a town that was 85% Christian in 1947 is now 90% Muslim, and the Muslim percentage of the population grows with each passing year. The Christians have been leaving the city to avoid the constant pressure of trying to thrive in the midst of a hostile population. Even if religious tourism returns, and the handful of Christian-owned souvenir shops sell their olive-wood creches and crucifixes, and Christian tour guides resume their occupation, how long can the dwindling Christian community withstand the pressures of living in a Muslim sea? And how many foreign Christians will want to frequent Muslim-owned shops in Bethlehem where their coreligionists are close to disappearing?

Catholic Apostasy? > Pope Politicizes Jesus for Palestine

 

At the Vatican, Pope Francis puts baby Jesus

in cradle draped with ‘Palestinian’ keffiyeh

By Robert Spencer on Dec 8, 2024 There is so much wrong with this, it's hard to know where to begin. The worst aspect of it is that Pope Francis is endorsing a bloody and genocidal jihad that does not allow for the existence of a Jewish state. "Palestinian" leaders have made it clear that no Jew will be allowed to live in their "Palestinian" state. So what will be done with the seven million Jews in Israel? This is the real genocidal intent in the region. In endorsing this jihad, the pope is accepting as fact Hamas' wildly inflated casualty figures, and their false claims that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Jesus was not a "Palestinian": the Romans didn't rename Judea "Palestine" until 100 years after Jesus. The pope never condemned the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis. This will reinforce the resurgence of Christian antisemitism worldwide.

It will also reinforce the recognition of Catholicism as an apostate religion, if it ever was a real God-fearing religion. An evangelical pastor once visited the Vatican and the Bishop leading the group of visitors admitted that the Catholic Church was, indeed, the Whore of Babylon in Revelations. I see no reason to dispute that.

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FORMER “PALESTINIAN” TERRORIST BEGS ISRAEL TO RETAKE GAZA

 

FORMER “PALESTINIAN” ARAB TERRORIST

BEGS ISRAEL TO RETAKE GAZA

written by Phil Schneider June 23, 2024 31 views

Is there a silent majority of Arabs in Israel that actually dream of Israel destroying the radical Islamic terrorists that are fighting against Israel? No. But there indeed are many Arabs who see things differently than the majority of Arabs who are unified in their pure hatred to everything Jewish or Israeli.

What drives most Arab young men? Are they more driven to be terrorists and kill Jews or to have upward mobility, financial stability, and a happy family? The real answer in the case of Israel is that being an Arab terrorist is the most effective method towards upward mobility, financial stability and a happy family. Of course, it is dangerous to be a terrorist, and sometimes ends with an afterlife of bliss – in the minds of young Arabs. But more often than not, deciding to enter the world of terror leads to a major influx of cash for Arab terrorists. And if the terrorist is imprisoned, then the family of the terrorist is well taken care of by the corrupt Palestinian Authority.

The pay-to-slay policy of the Palestinian Authority is not a hidden policy, but a publicly stated norm that has existed in Israel for decades. It is perhaps the most important aspect of funding terror that must be squelched if Israel wants to put a dent into the major incentives that are driving Arab terrorism against Israel.

So, must Israel destroy Hamas and the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza? Of course. But even that is not enough. Israel must also make a few basic strategic decisions. Israel must destroy any form of financial incentives towards terror. Israel must outlaw any textbooks that encourage hatred of the State of Israel. And lastly, Israel must mass produce their own weapons in order to never be left in the lurch without the weaponry needed to defeat its enemies.   

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Truth Never gets in the way of a good story for Palestinian Pseudo-Journalist

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Mohammed Najib,‘Journalist’

MAY 30, 2023 2:00 PM 

BY HUGH FITZGERALD

Jihad Watch

Mohamed Najib is an anti-Israel propagandist and quasi-journalist, whose latest article in the Arab News offers further proof of his animus toward the Jewish state. More on his piece can be found here: 

Arab News parrots Palestinian lies about the Temple Mount.

Lying reporter has written for major news media

Elder of Ziyon, May 25, 2023:

The biography of Mohammed Najib says he “a journalist, war correspondent and defense analyst based in Ramallah, Palestine. He reports and writes on the Middle East region for leading newspapers and journals like The Jerusalem Post, Yomiuri Shimbon, Le Monde, Special Operations Report, the Wall Street Journal and Jane’s Information Group.”

Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? But just one of his articles could have been reprinted in all those “leading newspapers,” and Najib may now be using those multiple appearances of the same article to convince us that he’s a real journalist. What he doesn’t say is that almost all of his pieces appear not in the Western press, but almost exclusively — do an Internet search of his name for the evidence — in Arab, especially Palestinian Arab, newspapers, including Arab News, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, and others of that Saudi or Palestinian ilk.

He is a Palestinian based in Ramallah.

Judging from this article in the Saudi-based Arab News, he has no business pretending to be any kind of journalist. The article is filled with absolute lies and Palestinian propaganda.

Palestinians are outraged by the Israeli government’s move to hold a weekly Cabinet meeting on May 21 inside the tunnels it has dug under Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israel has not dug a single tunnel underneath the Temple Mount or under the mosque. All the tunnels that archaeologists have uncovered and excavated are adjacent to the Mount, or stretch hundreds of meters away from it.

The Israelis have to date excavated approximately 2,000 archeological sites in Jerusalem alone. But they have never dug a. tunnel, despite Najib’s malign claim, under the Temple Mount; the tunnels they have dug in the vicinity have been located either next to the Mount, or extend for hundreds of meters away from the Mount. It’s no secret; the Israeli archeological digs are not hidden from view, and Mohammed Najib surely has visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and knows about the Marwani Mosque built beneath it. He knows perfectly well that there are no Israeli tunnels underneath Al-Aqsa.

Najib claims:

For decades, Israel has been excavating under Al-Aqsa as part of a vague, historically motivated search for “Solomon’s Temple” in an attempt to justify the occupation through archeology.

Israel doesn’t need to excavate under the Mount to find evidence of the First and Second Temples. Israeli archeologists have discovered every sort of Jewish artifact – oil lamps, utensils, knives, plates, coins, pottery, menorahs – from both the First and Second Temple periods, in the hundreds of tons of debris dug up when the Palestinians excavated under the Mount in order to build a new mosque, the Marwani Mosque, under Al-Aqsa. The Palestinians threw out that debris, wanting to get rid of what they surely suspected contained Jewish artifacts from the Temple periods, but Israeli archeologists rushed to collect that debris, and have spent years sifting through it, finding many hundreds of artifacts. Some of these artifacts are now on display in Israeli museums. Mohammad Najib can hardly be unaware of the Palestinian excavations under Al-Aqsa, or of the debris that the Palestinians threw out and Israeli archeologists then salvaged, as much as they could, for study. And he knows perfectly well that the Israelis have not excavated under the Temple Mount.

Najib continues:

However, after years of digging, Israelis, who claim they can trace their heritage to the land of Palestine, have found nothing linking their history to the Al-Aqsa region.

Elder of Ziyon then notes:

The only people who have excavated  underneath the Temple Mount since the 19th century have been the Muslims of the Waqf. 

They dug out hundreds of tons of debris removed to illegally build the huge underground Marwani Mosque at the site of what was (erroneously) called Solomon’s Stables. 

It was the biggest archaeological crime of the century.

The Temple Mount Sifting Project has been going through the truckfuls of debris – and found countless Judean artifacts from the times of the First and Second Temples. 

One example is this bulla inscribed with the name of a well-known priestly family of First Temple-era Jerusalem, the children of Immer.

They also found the distinctive Herodian tiles from the Second Temple period. So we know Herod built something big there – now what structure could it have possibly been and described in detail by Josephus?…

Yes, a very large structure was built on the Temple Mount during the period of the Second Temple, a building described by the Jewish historian Josephus. What, oh what, could that building have been? Yes, you’ve guessed it. But Najib knows the Second Temple, like the First, never existed; they are part of the fictive history the Jews have made up to justify their presence in Palestine.

Najib insists: 

Dozens of far-right Israelis visit the Al-Aqsa compound daily to show defiance and provoke Palestinians.

Elder of Ziyon responds:

No, they (and visitors like me) visit to be at Judaism’s holiest spot – a small fact that Najib doesn’t mention to the readers. 

Believe it or not, Mohammed Najib, Israelis of all political persuasions, and not just those who are “far right,” visit the Temple Mount (which Najib misleadingly describes as the “Al-Aqsa compound”) with no desire to “show defiance and provoke” the Palestinians. They do everything they can to avoid disturbing the Muslims. They do not pray on the Mount, openly or silently. They do not bring prayerbooks, prayer shawls, and tefillin onto the Mount. They limit their walk to the same well-worn route along the perimeter of the Temple Mount. They visit only five days of the week, and only for three hours in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. They do not visit the Mount on Fridays, in order to avoid possible conflict with the influx of Muslims who stream into Al-Aqsa for Friday prayers. And Jews from all over the world ascend to the Temple Mount for a simple reason that has apparently escaped Mohammed Najib’s notice: they visit the Temple Mount because it is the holiest site in Judaism.

Najib continues:

In July 2017, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee issued a decision affirming that Israel has no sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967. It condemned the excavations carried out by the Israeli Antiquities Department in the city….

That UNESCO resolution of 2017, condemning excavations carried out by Israelis in the city that has been the capital of the Jewish people for more than 3000 years, was an outrage. It completely ignored the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount site, which was referred to only by its Muslim name, Haram al-Sharif. The Western Wall was described as the Al-Buraq Wall. And the resolution said nothing about what the Muslim Waqf was doing, carrying out extensive excavations inside the Mount in order to build, deep underground, the Marwani Mosque. And neither then, nor since, has UNESCO condemned the massive excavations undertaken by the Arabs at the Temple Mount, and the destruction of so many Jewish artifacts that were thrown out with the piles of dirt removed in the Marwani excavations.

There are tens of thousands of archeological sites all over Israel. Two thousand of them are in Jerusalem alone. Archeologists, Israeli and non-Israeli, have unearthed thousands of Jewish artifacts dating as far back as 3000 B.C. And then there is the stunning written evidence on ancient parchment of Jews in their land, dating from between the first and third centuries B.C., found in the caves of Qumran – the Dead Sea Scrolls, now on view at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. Yet Najib and Ikrima Sabri, a preacher at al-Aqsa Mosque whom Elder of Ziyon also quotes, claim that the Israelis have found no archeological evidence of an ancient Jewish presence on the land. How do Sabri and Muhammed Najib explain the existence of those scrolls, all of them written in Hebrew, save for two written in Greek? The answer is: they don’t. They simply ignore the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other scrolls found later in other Qumran caves, and don’t mention, either, those Jewish artifacts carbon-dated to the First and Second Temple periods.

It is not the Jews, but the Muslims, who have destroyed Jewish (and Christian) antiquities in Jerusalem and in the rest of Israel. The latest example is the disposal of hundreds of tons of earth, rich with archeological evidence, that the Muslims dug out from under the Temple Mount when building the Marwani Mosque. That disposal was a great crime; thousands of artifacts were destroyed in the process.

The only thing the Israelis have had trouble finding is not ancient Jewish artifacts in the Land of Israel, as Ikrima Sabri claims, but enough museum space to display even the tiniest fraction of those ancient artifacts that their archeologists have so carefully unearthed. And the series of lies Mohammad Najib tells, about Jewish tunnels dug under Al-Aqsa — there are none — and his claim that Israelis have “found nothing linking their history to the Al-Aqsa region,” when the Temple Mount debris dug up by the Muslims themselves and rescued for sifting and study by Israeli archeologists turned out to contain a wealth of Jewish artifacts carbon-dated to the periods of both the First and Second Temple, should disqualify him from appearing in the Western press. Should, but won’t, because that Western press has shown itself all too willing to publish the most absurd charges against Israel.

Islam - Current Day > Palestinian terrorist shot on synagogue steps; Muslim gang beats Hindu youth for snacking with Muslim woman; Genocide in Nigeria with Government cooperation

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IDF: Palestinian killed after infiltrating West Bank settlement

synagogue with knife

by Emanuel Fabian, 

Times of Israel, May 26, 2023:

A Palestinian man was shot and killed Friday by a member of a local security team after infiltrating into the Teneh Omarim settlement and trying to stab an Israeli at the entrance to the community synagogue, the military said.

There were no reports of Israeli casualties in the incident that came as residents of the southern West Bank settlement were gathered for morning prayers on the Shavuot festival.

Video from the scene showed the man sliding under the community gate and then walking into the community with what appears to be a knife in his hand….

The Israeli military sent forces to the area as an infiltration alert sounded in the community, and was carrying out searches in the area south of the West Bank city of Hebron….

According to an initial investigation, the assailant crawled under the main gate of the community while the guard was on patrol. He then walked several hundred meters into the settlement, passing a crowded playground.

He was then spotted by a resident who alerted security. One of the members of the security team intercepted him as he approached the synagogue and opened fire, killing him.

The IDF doesn't mess around with terrorists.

Youth Eating Snacks With Woman Beaten By Group Of Men in Karnataka

Times Now News, 

May 26, 2023:

Chikkaballapur: A group of Muslim men attacked a Hindu youth on Thursday in Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur for eating snacks with a Muslim woman, after they spotted the two eating snacks at a food outlet. The Muslim woman was also attack(ed) by the group for visiting the food outlet with a Hindu man, police said.

The accused had noticed them when the youth and woman were having snacks at Gopika Chaats and realised that the man accompanying her was Hindu.

They started thrashing the youth. The woman came to rescue him and told the group attacking the youth that she knew him “very well”.

The group then started questioning her and told her that going out to a food outlet with a Hindu man was wrong and she should apologise for the same…

Plateau State Residents Confirm Over 200 Persons Killed,

32 Communities Displaced In Herdsmen Attacks

Sahara Reporters, 

May 25, 2023:

There is palpable tension in the Mangu local government area of Plateau State as armed Fulani herdsmen reportedly sacked 32 communities, forcing nine Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps to spring up.

Community sources told SaharaReporters on Thursday, that 200 people were killed between Monday May 15 and Wednesday May 17, 2023 with millions of properties destroyed including several houses.

Simon Lalong, Governor of Plateau State

Lamenting the killings and destruction of the communities, one of the sources told SaharaReporters that 37 people were killed on Monday night, while accusing the security agencies of aiding Fulani herdsmen in the attacks.

The source said “I attended a meeting yesterday (Wednesday), about what is happening in Mangu local government area. Over 200 people were recorded killed between Monday May 15 and Wednesday May 17, 2023. Thirty two communities have been completely displaced with nine Internally Displaced Persons Camps (IDPs) with over 15,000 people.

“From the record 1,292 households with 3,951 children, 2,701 women and 2,140 men were all displaced. There are no security agencies there, the securities are only going there to visit for a few minutes and go.”…

Governor Simon Lalong, has confirmed the incident which he had described as a sad development, while directing security forces to ensure that the killers were apprehended to face justice.

How can this be anything but genocide? Genocide that has the full cooperation of the state. Why is this being ignored by western media and governments? Is it because most of the victims are Christians?

Plateau State, Nigeria

Islam - Current Day > Taliban place bounty on Christians; Ramadan in DR Congo: Over 30 people murdered in jihad massacres; Palestinian driver kills one, injures 7 tourists

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Afghanistan: ‘The Taliban are offering money for Afghans

to turn in any Christians they know’

APR 9, 2023 8:00 AM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

Building a Sharia paradise through terror. And why not? Muhammad is depicted in a hadith as having said: “I have been made victorious through terror” (Bukhari 4:52.220).

Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan Christians

Mission Network News, April 3, 2023:

Afghanistan (MNN) — Famine fears loom in Afghanistan. Multibillion-dollar aid packages have kept 20 million Afghans alive – roughly half of the population – since the Taliban took over. Now, aid groups are cutting funding.

Plus, “there is limited affordability for people to buy good fuels to heat their homes,” Transform Iran’s Lana Silk says.

“[Afghans are] burning anything they can – plastic, anything – to create some warmth. This is causing air pollution, and we have the risk of disease.”

Hunger and disease aren’t the only concerns. “The threat on their (believers’) lives is ongoing,” Silk says.

“The Taliban are offering money for Afghans to turn in any Christians they know. And Afghans are desperate, further heightening the security risk [to] Christians.”…

“There are secret prayer meetings and teaching sessions; people are giving each other encouragement and hope. They are reaching out and evangelizing the lost around them, which is incredibly courageous, considering the implications,” Silk says….

DRC: UN says more than 30 killed in new ADF attacks

Africa News, April 7, 2023:

The United Nations said on Thursday that more than 30 people had been killed in new killings attributed to the ADF, a rebel group affiliated with the Islamic State group, in Ituri in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on April 2 and 3.

In his last quarterly report, published on 27 March, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, had put at 485 the number of civilians killed between 1 December and 14 March in this province plagued by violence from several armed groups, including the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces).

It was then alarmed by a “sharp rise” in violence in the eastern provinces of the DRC.

In a statement issued on Thursday evening, the UN mission in the DRC (Monusco) said it had received reports of killings attributed to the ADF “on 2 and 3 April at the border between the territory of Mambasa and Irumu”….

The ADF are originally predominantly Muslim Ugandan rebels who have been operating since the mid-1990s in eastern DRC, where they are accused of massacring thousands of civilians.

They pledged allegiance in 2019 to the Islamic State group, which portrays them as its branch in Central Africa.

Ramadan in Israel

Tel Aviv car-ramming kills Italian and injures 7 tourists

by Yolande Knell and Christy Cooney, 

BBC News, April 7, 2023

An Italian tourist has been killed and seven other people injured in a suspected car-ramming attack near a beach in Tel Aviv, Israeli medics say.

Italy’s foreign minister said Israel had identified the man killed as Italian citizen Alessandro Parini, 36.

A doctor told Israeli television the wounded included three British nationals and one other Italian.

Footage from the scene showed an overturned car near a promenade and an Israeli police officer opening fire.

Local police said the suspected attacker was shot dead by officers.

Police have named him as Yousef Abu Jaber from Kafr Qasim, an Israeli-Arab city.

The attack came after two British-Israeli sisters were killed and their mother injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank earlier on Friday.

Police in Tel Aviv said at 21:25 local time (19:25 BST) a 45-year-old man drove a Kia car along the city’s beachside boardwalk, hitting several pedestrians before overturning on the lawn of the Charles Clore Garden.

They said a police officer at a nearby petrol station heard the commotion and, after running to the scene, saw the driver of the car “trying to reach for what looked like a rifle-like object that was with him” and then “neutralised him”.

The Israeli ambulance service said that, aside from the alleged perpetrator, there were a total of eight casualties from the attack and that all were tourists.

Of those wounded, three suffered moderate injuries and four sustained only light injuries, it said….

Islam - Current Day > Palestinian Terrorists Kill American; Sunak to Deport all Illegal Immigrants from UK; Clever Swiss referendum to limit Immigration; 2 Fulani Herdsmen attacks in Nigeria

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US citizen murdered in Palestinian terror attack near Jericho

The IDF confirmed that two interconnected terror attacks were carried out near

the Beit HaAravah Junction late Monday

By TZVI JOFFRE Published: FEBRUARY 27, 2023 17:36

Updated: FEBRUARY 28, 2023 07:36

Jerusalem Post

Israeli security forces guard at the scene of a shooting attack in Bet Ha'Arava Junction, in the Jordan Valley,

February 27, 2023. (photo credit: ERIK MARMOR/FLASH90)

A US-Israeli dual national was killed in a shooting attack near the Beit HaArava Junction on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley on Monday afternoon.

Elan Ganeles was identified as the US citizen who was killed in a shooting attack near the Beit HaArava Junction on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley on Monday afternoon.

Ganeles, from West Hartford, Connecticut, recently graduated from Columbia University. Ganeles' funeral will take place in Israel and his family will return to Connecticut to sit shiva, according to an announcement by the Young Israel of West Hartford.

Later on Monday night, four shots were fired at an Israeli vehicle near Qusra. No injuries were reported in the attempted attack.

Video from the scene at Beit HaArava showed the terrorists driving up to the junction and firing at passing cars. A passing car was damaged although no injuries were caused. The terrorists then proceeded to the Mul Nevo area where they shot an Israeli, critically injuring him.

The victim, 26 years old Ganales, was transferred to Hadassah Medical Center at Har Zofim in critical condition as paramedics conducted resuscitation efforts. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. On Monday night, US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides confirmed that "sadly, a US citizen was killed in one of the terror attacks in the West Bank tonight."

The terrorists proceeded to drive to the area of the Monastery of Saint George in Wadi Qelt, burned their vehicle and switched to a different vehicle before driving away from the area.

UK PM Sunak vows to deport all illegal immigrants:

‘You will not be able to stay’

Sunak says illegal immigrants will not be able to apply for asylum

By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned illegal immigrants entering the country that they would be deported and "will not be able to stay" on Sunday.

Sunak made the vow in a Sunday interview as the U.K. faces a steady flow of migrants crossing its borders from Europe. Sunak's government is expected to push legislation cracking down on illegal immigration later this week, with a special emphasis on illegal immigrants arriving in boats across the English Channel.

"Make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay," Sunak told U.K. media.

Much like the U.S., Britain currently has laws allowing illegal immigrants to claim asylum after crossing the border. The migrants are typically allowed to stay while their case is being litigated, but the new legislation would prevent such migrants from claiming asylum in the first place, the BBC reported.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says all illegal immigrants arriving to the U.K. will be deported.

(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

The U.K. saw tens of thousands of migrants cross its borders via the English Channel last year.

"Illegal migration is not fair on British taxpayers, it is not fair on those who come here legally and it is not right that criminal gangs should be allowed to continue their immoral trade. I am determined to deliver on my promise to stop the boats," 

The illegal immigration crackdown from America's closest ally comes as the U.S. itself faces an unprecedented crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has tracked more than 230,000 migrant encounters each month since October, up from 100,000 per month when President Biden took office.

In comparison, the U.K. tracked just 45,000 migrants crossing the English Channel in 2022, according to Reuters.

U.S. immigration authorities are tracking more than 230,000 migrant encounters each month, far more than the U.K.

(Fox News Digital / Jon Michael Raasch)

Like Sunak, Biden has faced growing calls to address the crisis at the border.

Unlike Sunak, Biden has no plan to do anything about it.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Oh! This is clever!

Swiss national referendum will limit population to 10 million

through strict immigration control to save environment

Can a national referendum on immigration in Switzerland help save the country’s environment?

December 30, 2022

editor: REMIX NEWS. author: JOHN CODY

Migrants protest after they are stranded in Como, Italy, following Switzerland's decision to close its border.

(Source: Shutterstock).

   

The most popular party in Switzerland, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), known for its agrarian roots and opposition to mass immigration, is set to pursue a referendum calling for the renegotiation of international treaties, or even their complete abandonment, if the Swiss population hits 10 million.

The proposed referendum comes at a time when Europe increasingly faces environmental catastrophe, a housing crisis, and huge strains on public resources due to soaring immigration levels. Many European nations are among the most densely populated nations in the world and life in them is only expected to become more crowded in the near future unless dramatic action is taken. Switzerland is no exception.

“Our country is cracking in every corner. We are going through the debacles of recent years. If we don’t intervene, we will be overtaken by events,” said Marcel Dettling, the SVP’s campaign manager.

Dettling warns that economic migration remains high, especially from groups known for their difficulty integrating into Switzerland, a fact highlighted by Switzerland’s alarming prison population data.

“Today, there is very strong economic migration,” says Dettling. “Whoever has set foot in Switzerland will never leave the country. Migrants from Africa have welfare rates of 34 percent.”

Dettling’s party is meeting on Jan. 6 and 7 in Thurgau, near the shores of Lake Constance, and the main topic of discussion is expected to be immigration, with the new referendum featuring the working title “initiative for sustainability.”

Explosive population growth

The text for the referendum has also already been completed and would stipulate that Switzerland’s population should not exceed 10 million until 2050. After 2050, this limit could be slightly increased but only due to organic, surplus births, according to the Le Temps new outlet.

SVP National Councilor Thomas Matter says he must sound a “red alert” over Switzerland’s rising population, adding that “this is the last moment when we can still change something for Switzerland.”

“The migration figures are hair-raising,” he said. “In 2022, Switzerland will have 200,000 more inhabitants, the population of the canton of Basel-City.” 

‘I have never seen such violence’ 

– Beninese migrant convicted for nearly killing Swiss woman with a broken bottle,

leaving her with 200 stitches and deep psychological trauma

“Every morning when I see my body, I think back to everything. I feel like a monster,”

said the young Swiss woman during her attacker’s trial

There is also the threat that a conflict between Serbia and Kosovo would only ramp up the refugee numbers Switzerland is facing.

The country is already rapidly approaching 9 million residents. In 2022, 145,958 people arrived, raising the population to 8.89 million. It is now only a matter of time until the population hits 9 million.

Over the past 20 years, Switzerland’s population has increased by 21 percent.

“If Switzerland grows so strongly again over the next 20 years, everything will collapse,” said Matter, who serves as a national councilor. According to him, the country’s financial reserves for education, health and transport are exhausted.

“It is urgent to leave the model of quantitative growth for qualitative growth.”

Details of the referendum text

Just like the country’s debt brake, the referendum would serve as a brake on immigration. The text stipulates that if certain population limits are reached, the government must take certain steps to inhibit population growth. For example, if Switzerland’s population reaches 9.5 million, the Swiss Federal Council will have to take steps with new laws to counteract this growth.

However, if the country reaches 10 million, the government must respond with “rigorous measures,” including the Federal Council abandoning international agreements, such as the UN migration pacts or EU treaties relating to free movement.

Ukraine, war, refugee, borders

Ukrainian women threatened with murder, harassed in Swiss asylum center

Some of the Algerian migrants already present in the asylum center support

the invasion of Ukraine and do not hesitate to let the Ukrainians know about it

It is important to note that Switzerland has featured a number of referendums on the topic of immigration in the past, including the famous 2014 referendum “against mass immigration,” which won with 50.3 percent of the vote. The SVP-backed referendum was designed to place strict quotas on immigration, but despite winning the vote, the referendum was more or less made toothless by the Swiss parliament.

Switzerland was threatened by the EU over any attempt to restrict free movement, with the EU warning Switzerland that any abandonment of free movement would have meant that all EU agreements became null and void, which would have presented severe economic consequences for the country.

The SVP harshly criticized the final agreement, which failed to implement immigration quotas but instead offered moderate improvements regarding job market conditions for the Swiss. The SVP called it “a betrayal of voters’ wishes” and unconstitutional, while the EU commission celebrated the “hugely watered-down version of the initiative.“

‘There is no racism against whites’

– Black artist collective occupies theater in Switzerland, demands non-White theater

A non-White theater group has received hundreds of thousands in funding from

the Swiss government despite calling for a “non-White theater” to be established

The SVP, this time around, will include language in the referendum that outright calls for Switzerland to ignore these international agreements, but Swiss business interests and the country’s left-liberal bloc are likely to put up a serious fight should the referendum win.

SPV argues that immigration does not equal endless growth

The current Western model promotes the idea of endless GDP growth through mass immigration. More immigrants equal more consumers, more housing construction springing up across the countryside, and more Third World peoples adopting a First World lifestyle.

Left-liberal and Green parties across the Western world have simultaneously called for Europeans to have fewer children to save the environment, while promoting mass immigration from Middle Eastern, African, and Asian countries, with these newcomers known for their notoriously high birth rates. At the same time, countries like Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom are breaking population records due to immigration, leading to a severe strain on the environment and social welfare models within these European nations — a development that has been rejected by only a handful of nations such as Denmark and Hungary.

The right, if it wants to survive, may have to tie environmental causes and climate change, which the youth of Europe overwhelmingly believe is occurring, to soaring population growth through immigration. The Swiss referendum may be a nod to a growing reality. Any referendum that calls for immigration restriction is likely to fail given the growing pro-migration youth vote, but if it can be tied to green causes, such a referendum may have a chance.

‘My dream is zero asylum seekers in Denmark’

– Danish migration minister sets ambitious goal

Denmark’s Minister of Immigration and Integration Mattias Tesfaye has called 

Europe’s asylum system immoral and unsustainable, 

saying that his dream is to have zero asylum seekers in Denmark

Futhermore, the SVP argues that this endless population growth model is not only unsustainable, but actually will not result in the desired outcome of endless economic growth.

SVP National Councilor Manuel Strupler states that purely “quantitative” immigration does not guarantee higher per capita growth. Furthermore, this type of immigration “dilutes” the values ​​of Switzerland.

“At some point, someone will have to pay the costs of our current policy. We have a duty to the next generation to preserve the values ​​that have made Switzerland successful”

Thomas Matter argues that population growth has actually reached the point of harming economic growth and will help push the country into recession. He says that while the population will increase by 2.5 percent in 2022, per capita income will only rise by 2 percent:

“They want us to believe that immigration rhymes with growth. But in reality, we are heading towards a recession,” he said.

He notes that France and Germany have closed their borders to illegal immigration from Switzerland, with Switzerland increasingly seen as a transit country. He warns that “a disaster is brewing.”

Gunmen Kill Pastor And His Two Sons In Plateau Fresh Attack

Last updated: 2023/03/05 at 10:35 AM

BY DANMASANI DANKWADA

A Clergy with the Church of Christ in Nations, COCIN, Rev Musa Hyok, was on Saturday night killed alongside two of his only Sons in the Ganawuri community of Riyom local Government area of Plateau.

The incident which occurred in the early hours of Sunday was said to be a reprisal attack following the killing of three Fulani Youths on Wednesday in Ganawuri.

Youth leader of Ganawuri, Song Mura, who confirmed the development to AIT said trouble started when some Suspected Fulani kidnappers were arrested during the Market day last Wednesday but later escaped in the hands of Fulani Vigilante who were to keep them before the arrival of security operatives.

According to Muru, the situation degenerated into an argument and later escalated to Crisis leading to the death of three Fulani Youths despite several meetings and appeals for calm, some Suspected Fulanis still launched an attack on an innocent Family who had nothing to do with the last Wednesday’s incident.

The Plateau State Police Command through its spokesman DSP Alfred Alabo confirmed the incident and said the command has commenced an investigation to unravel those behind the attack.

As of the time of filing this report, the Pastor and his two sons are being buried amidst tension in the entire Ganawuri axis. Men of Operation Safe Haven and other security operatives have taken over the entire Ganawuri Community to restore normalcy.

Death toll rises to 15 in killer herdsmen attack on Christian communities

The Two council wards were overrun by herders after the attack

MICHAEL NDU-OKEKE AND ARDO HAZZAD • 

MARCH 2, 2023

Peoples Gazette

Armed herdsmen used to illustrate the story [Photo credit: Africa Daily News]

Herdsmen, on Tuesday evening, attacked Tse Fela in Mbabuande and Tse Akyegh in Ikaaghev council wards in the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State, killing at least 15 people with additional bodies still being expected by the locals.

Benue State is predominantly Christian. And it's a long way south for Fulani Herdsmen.

The Two council wards, Ikaaghev and Mbabuande, were overrun by herders after the attack.

At least eight bodies were recovered in Gwer West, while four bodies were recovered in Turan community in Kwande. Three people were killed in Agasha in Guma, officials said.

Amongst those killed were the council’s ward commander of the Community Volunteers Guard and six other community members. 

The attack was confirmed by the district head of Ikaaghev, Chief Adi-Bata, who stated that the casualties of the attack would have been more if not for the alarm raised by community members after seeing strange faces parading in the community. 

“If not for the alarm raised by members of the community, the number of casualties would have been very high”, Mr Adi-Bata said. 

Mr Adi-Bata charged security agencies to rise up to the challenge and secure the lives and properties of the people. 

Good plan. For sure the army is not going to protect you.

The police in Benue have yet to issue a statement about the attack, despite two separate requests for comments from Peoples Gazette.