Record crowds:
Bethlehem hosted a record number of pilgrims this Christmas, Palestinian officials said Saturday as tens of thousands flocked to celebrate in the birthplace of Jesus.
With thousands still heading to the West Bank city on Christmas Day, officials said the numbers may have even surpassed the 90,000 predicted by the Palestinian Authority ahead of the Holy Day.
“This is the first year that Bethlehem has hosted so many people,” Bethlehem city official George Saade told AFP. However, he said they did not yet have exact figures…
Let those who try to defend Hamas in Gaza compare and contrast…90,000 people easily made their way to Bethlehem and celebrated a non-Moslem event and no acts of violence or repression were recorded…and no trouble from the Israeli authorities at this large and risky moving of people through areas once known to be rife with terrorists. The people of the West Bank, having finally got some native leadership willing to be even partially reasonable, are reaping the reward: normal life. The people of Gaza, living under an exceptionally insane version of radical Islam are suffering terribly…and only a few miles away from peace and prosperity.
This event clearly shows that the Palestinian’s problem is not primarily Israel – that, in fact, the Israelis only care about Palestinian doings to the extent that those doings put Israel at risk. If you don’t want your town bombarded by Israeli war planes, then you best option is to not fire rockets at Israel. Additionally, if you want free and easy access from Israel to your territory, then you might want to look in to stopping suicide bombers from leaving your territory to kill Israelis.
All of the Islamist and allied global leftist propaganda is shown up as nonsense just in the fact of what happened in Bethlehem this Christmas. The problem is not Israel; the problem is not US support for Israel (plenty of Americans went to Bethlehem and none of them were in any way molested); the problem is the leadership of the Moslem side. When it is insane, it provokes a reasonable and very harsh response…when it is sane, it provokes an equally reasonable and soft response.
Let me here no more talk of curbing Israel or demanding of concessions until all of the leadership of the Moslem world is as least as sane as the leadership of the West Bank.
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