by Philip Giraldi, The Unz Review:
Prior to Israel’s founding as a Jewish state in 1948, Christians made up 20% of Jerusalem’s population. Since then, the population has experienced a staggering decline, counting a presence of 2% in the birthplace of Jesus.
The consensus among right-wing Christians has generally been that Israel is primarily hostile towards Muslims who attack them just for being Jewish. This is a manufactured opinion produced by media disinformation and omission. History and currently unfolding realities show that the Zionist movement is hostile to all non-Jews in the world.
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Following the Haganah’s (which would later become the Israel Defense Force) implementation of the Dalet Plan (also known as Plan D) in 1947, Zionist militants violently expelled 750,000 non-Jews from Israel in preparation for the state’s founding.
The main tool used by Israeli forces in their ethnic cleansing campaign was to engage in acts of gratuitous mass murder and then publicize the actions widely to scare others to leave their homes and belongings and flee for their lives.
The infamous Deir Yassein massacre, where Lehi and Irgun terrorists burned, raped and machine gunned 250 defenseless Arab women, children, elderly and disabled people who had previously signed a non-aggression agreement with the Haganah is one well-known episode in the genocidal policy.
But this savagery was not limited to attacks on Muslims. In the village of Eilaboun, the Israeli Army stormed a Church full of young Christians waving white flags, lined them up, then executed them in cold blood. The rest of the village was expelled to Lebanon.
Today, what’s left of the Christian population in Israel is multi-ethnic, with many Armenians and Greeks among the Arab and Jewish natives. All are treated equally as poorly. They are primarily Catholic and Orthodox Christians who have lived in the area for centuries, going back to the time of Christ. They were able to survive the many changes in ownership of Palestine throughout this time, including the Ottoman Empire, but their existence has never been existentially threatened until now.
Unlike Muslims, Christians in Israel do not generally partake in organized resistance against the government. This spirit of pacificism has not been of much use when interacting with the Zionist regime and the rabid Jewish population. The Israeli state has pressured Christians through both institutional and criminal means to leave since its founding, but the renewed and unprovoked offensive has caught the community off-guard.
The most recent Benjamin Netanyahu government has expelling Gentiles from Jerusalem at the top of their agenda, particularly in and around the Jaffa Gate. The Kahanist “Jewish Power” party’s Itamar Ben-Gvir now serves as Minister of National Security, which puts him in charge of the country’s police force and has allowed him to institute his anti-Christian agenda unimpeded.
Ben-Gvir makes no secret of his pious dedication to the teachings of the Talmud. In 2015, a group of Jewish terrorists belonging to the Lehava group burned down the sacred site where Christians believe Jesus multiplied fish and bread loaves. Ben-Gvir personally took up the arsonist’s legal defense and embarked on a campaign to present them as folk heroes. The new minister was even able to win acquittals for some of the suspects on dubious grounds.
Predictably, Jewish attacks on Christians have increased since Ben-Gvir became the nation’s top law enforcement official. Just in the last few months, emboldened Jewish fanatics have deployed a clearly organized strategy of intimidation and terrorizing Christians, such as in the case of the Church at the Tomb of the Virgin Mary, where Jews stormed the Church and began assaulting the priest and worshippers.
In another instance, an American Jew visiting Israel walked into a Catholic Church and toppled a statue of Jesus, then began furiously smashing it with a hammer. Christian-owned businesses are regularly attacked by groups of Jewish settlers waving Israeli flags who demand they sell them their shops and leave the country. Christian priests who dare walk out in public are sucker punched and spit on daily. No matter where in Israel Christians live, their chapels and visible manifestations of faith are under a permanent state of siege at the hands of the Jewish majority.
