We don't need to look far to get to the root of STREWTHS sources... and their 'flavor'...

Ha'aretz staffer Amira Hass, a Jewish resident of Ramallah, wrote several months ago that the residents of Beit Hadassah in Hevron abused the corpse of a terrorist. She wrote that the residents kicked, spat on, and danced atop the body of a dead Arab terrorist, who had just been shot and killed by soldiers shortly after he threw a grenade at them.

The residents sued the paper.. won... and Amira Hass is apparently officially a 'liar'. ?

"This judgement is no doubt a blow to the reputation of Amira Hass, world renowned for her tear-jerking reports about the poor Arabs living under the cruel post-Zionist occupation"

It appears that due to childhood trauma in Germany, she is just another 'self hating' Jew ?

I guess she also believes in the tooth fairy and that all the 'wonderful Palestinians' and the 'evil Jews' could actually live together in perfect harmony..... ?

"Ha'aretz is a liberal, free-thinking paper" code for somewhere left of marx.

The curious aspect of such journalists and of Strewth him/herself is that they actually believe the supposed 'victim' here is interested in nothing more than 'living together in harmony' once the basic 'land issue' is sorted.

Unfortunately the LAND issue is.. '100% for Islamic Hamas and Muslims, 0% for Jews. How do we know this ? easy, from the Hamas Charter.

Strewth.. do you actually READ the stuff you refer to ? The Hamas charter as already outlined elsewhere, is not about 'land' in the way we usually think, its about ISLAMIC land in the doctrinal sense.
Do you actually 'get' this ? Yes or no ?

Dr Ata must be wondering about some of the people who posted here...covert anti-Semites, people out to score cheap political or religious points.

His description of the plight of Palestinian Christians is doubtless true...they are the meat in a not v pleasant sandwich in the world's worst religious/political hotspot.

If Palestinian Christians have any sort of representative org (maybe not, given the conditions they labour under) they shd be using it to call the US religious right on its position. Some at least in the US cd be shamed into doing something for the Palestinian Christian community. Failing that, can the Churches themselves - of various denominations - not act on their behalf?

One teeny bright spot...there was a good program on ABC or SBS recently about the Palestinian authority-sponsored (with foreign $ of course) excavations in Gaza of the ancient St Hilarion monastery in Gaza. Some Palestinians at least seem to recognise that their national cultural heritage includes an important Christian component. Not much to go on, but something.

God has left the building

Aspro, “god left the building”, the planet and the universe as soon as it realised the intellect and character of those that worship him.

Benjamin wrote, “I mean, Christians are fleeing everywhere else too you know. 1000 leave Iraq each week, because of persecution.”

Thats pretty understandable considering Iraq's been liberated by their US christian brothers, who are known for their kind and gentle ways. Benjamin, there is persecution for everyone where ever monotheistic people practise their suppressive beleifs, just look around the world.

It still boils down to the same thing, my monotheistic faction is better than yours and I'll kill you to prove it. Doesn't matter where you go, they fight and abuse just the same, no difference, not even here. The abuse that is laid on all by the self righteous religious continues in the guise of, we are right you are wrong. Yet they are the first to bleat when they feel they are getting a little back from their own kin and refuse to answer to for despotic practices.

Nothing will change, all these articles are designed to inflame and create tension, so that they can get to where they want to be. The final solution and the wrath of god brought down on all those that don't follow, “my faction” of monotheistics.

Bd makes a very true statement, “Standing for Christ is costly, but geography can never rob is of the priceless treasure of knowing Him.”

Very costly for those billions murdered in gods name. “The priceless treasure of knowing him”, appears to be, destruction of your way of life, culture, economy, ecology, infrastructure and death.

“look to Jesus... the author and finisher of our faith.” The author of 2000 years of death and destruction and his big finish, world destruction.

Todays news from SMH 27/3/06 below.

Thirty bodies, most beheaded, found in Iraq
7:04am
Thirty bodies have been found on a street north of Baghdad, stepping up pressure on Iraqi leaders to form a government they hope can avert sectarian civil war.

When does it stop, and these are all Iraquis?

"Love your brother", Christ said.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about love and forgiving and loving others more that your self , also running the extra mile with them as well as giving them your coat and your shirt,if they are in need.

As well as turning the other cheek and taking the log out of your own eye first before you can get the splinter out of others eyes.
He spoke against revenge and pay back , as Bible says "vengence is mine says the Lord".

It will take a miracle for the evil,and terror to ever stop, or world war three ,until the next war.
As Christians we can only pray God's will to intervene for all mankinds sake.

It is suprising to read, not only from obvious anti-Israel advocates, but even from Benjamin: "I agree with you that the Israeli's probably want them out too".

Israelis feel compassion for Arab Christians and pain at their plight, just as we, Australians, feel compassion for Indonesian Christians who are similarly under duress. Israel would have liked to help those Christians and protect them as it did in previous years, but its hands are tied following the Oslo agreements that took its forces out of the main Arab cities, including Bethlehem, and is subsequently helpless to protect them when Moslem terror gangs specifically target the Christian population of Bethlehem, invade their homes at night to shoot at Israel from their windows, obviously drawing fire back at the sources.

Even Abe, who had to call herself "Palestinian" due to the gun being pointed at her and her family, said (correctly) that it is only the Israeli Right that wants them gone.

Well, Israel has absolutely no such interest, and for those who failed to notice Israel's recent uprising, led by Ariel Sharon and his follower's party, Kadima, against those marginal settler groups that held Israel politically-captive for years (led by - how not, a group of crazy American Jews), fortunately in only two days you will see that Israel rejects that "Right" and gives the green light to ridding itself of as many territories and settlements as its security can afford at this time... perhaps not so good news for the remaining non-Moslems there.

I wish Abe and all other Christian Arabs, whether still in the west bank, or wherever they are now, a very calm and peaceful Easter.