Israeli police restrict Palestinian Christians from celebrating Easter in Jeruselum (soldiers, Jesus)

[KRAMERCAT]

The Palestinian Christians has been living in that area since the time of Jesus, and no doubt have more Jewish blood than the Israeli police that restrict them.

"Thousands of Israeli police and soldiers were deployed this week in and around Jerusalem’s Old City, central to the world’s three largest monotheistic religions, as huge crowds came to pray and celebrate Passover and Easter.

“There is no dignity in this,” said Firas Aridah, a parish priest at St. Joseph’s Church outside the West Bank city of Ramallah. “I need a permit to enter into Israel, why? . . . This is my mother church, my state?”

“I do not believe this is security,” Aridah added. “The Israelis do not want to show how many Christians are living here and that they are powerful in the Old City.”

Hind Khoury, a former minister of Jerusalem affairs for the Palestinian Authority, said she has seen priests roughed up and insulted by Israeli security personnel and that security forces enter the Holy Sepulcher Church.

“People are not coming to Jerusalem anymore” from the West Bank, Khoury said. “Who wants confrontations and tear gas? Easter is supposed to be a time of joy.”

Palestinian Christians marking Easter struggle to reach Jerusalem holy site, U.N. envoy says - The Washington Post

[Bulldogdad]

Your Title is pure BS as usual.

Hopefully people will read the story which in the end comes out as SSDD.

[Pruzhany]

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Now as to your thread. Everything is on high alert due to the sniper attack south of Jerusalem near Hebron a few days ago. People need to keep in mind that this is only covering the Old City of Jerusalem and not the region. So for anyone who has never been to the Old City, the alley ways are on average 10 ft wide. So when you have 20,000 people who basically all show up at the same time, massive crowd control is necessary. So there are points that are put up to control the flow of people. And at these points people have to wait until an opening is available to let more people through which is usually 60-100 people at a time. As to Arabs needing permits to enter the OC, most were granted from what I've read on other sites. But no matter what country one is in, if there is a long line people complain. When there are more people than a line can contain, people complain more. And whomever is controlling that line will get blamed for it.

As to the statements made, there is nothing on YouTube to hold it it up as truth in the OC (not even a camera phone).

As to Jewish residents of the OC moving freely, well sort of. They are going in the opposite direction using different alleys which also has crowd control barriers and they have to pull out their ID like everyone else.

[Pruzhany]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UjqSsJxjMg

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