@MarioNawfal: 🇮🇱 NETANYAHU TELLS CHRISTIANS ...
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🇮🇱 NETANYAHU TELLS CHRISTIANS "ISRAEL'S THE ONLY SAFE PLACE IN MIDDLE EAST" - LEBANESE CHRISTIANS WHO'VE BEEN THERE 2,000 YEARS CALL BULLSHIT
Netanyahu's Christmas message to the world: Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christians can live in peace.
One problem. Lebanon exists.
Lebanon - where the president must be a Maronite Christian by constitutional law. Where Christians have held political power continuously since independence. Where churches predate Islam by 400 years. Where Christian communities have survived empires, crusades, and civil wars for 2 millennia.
But sure, the only safe place is Israel.
This isn't a message for Middle Eastern Christians. It's a message for American evangelicals who don't know Lebanon exists and think "Middle East" means one undifferentiated war zone where only Israel protects minorities.
Here's what makes it particularly insulting: Palestinian Christians - the ones who actually live under Israeli governance in the West Bank - are watching their communities shrink, their churches surveilled, and their land carved up by settlements. Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, is walled off behind checkpoints.
But Netanyahu's selling Western Christians the story that Israel's their protector.
Meanwhile actual Lebanese Christians - who've maintained unbroken communities since the time of the Apostles - get erased from the narrative entirely.
Their existence is inconvenient to the propaganda.
The message isn't about protecting Christians. It's about recruiting American evangelical political support by weaponizing their concern for Middle Eastern Christians while ignoring what those Christians actually say.
You know who didn't ask for Netanyahu's Christmas message? Middle Eastern Christians. They're too busy living in the region Netanyahu claims they can't survive in.
Source: Netanyahu Christmas address, @IsraeliPM
Netanyahu's Christmas message to the world: Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christians can live in peace.
One problem. Lebanon exists.
Lebanon - where the president must be a Maronite Christian by constitutional law. Where Christians have held political power continuously since independence. Where churches predate Islam by 400 years. Where Christian communities have survived empires, crusades, and civil wars for 2 millennia.
But sure, the only safe place is Israel.
This isn't a message for Middle Eastern Christians. It's a message for American evangelicals who don't know Lebanon exists and think "Middle East" means one undifferentiated war zone where only Israel protects minorities.
Here's what makes it particularly insulting: Palestinian Christians - the ones who actually live under Israeli governance in the West Bank - are watching their communities shrink, their churches surveilled, and their land carved up by settlements. Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, is walled off behind checkpoints.
But Netanyahu's selling Western Christians the story that Israel's their protector.
Meanwhile actual Lebanese Christians - who've maintained unbroken communities since the time of the Apostles - get erased from the narrative entirely.
Their existence is inconvenient to the propaganda.
The message isn't about protecting Christians. It's about recruiting American evangelical political support by weaponizing their concern for Middle Eastern Christians while ignoring what those Christians actually say.
You know who didn't ask for Netanyahu's Christmas message? Middle Eastern Christians. They're too busy living in the region Netanyahu claims they can't survive in.
Source: Netanyahu Christmas address, @IsraeliPM
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