Stephen Coulter said the carol’s lyrics don’t reflect the reality in Bethlehem, attacked Israel’s actions in the 'West Bank', primarily the security wall and the roadblocks, telling the British newspaper The Times that he was "shocked at how the Arab-Israeli conflict that has raged around the 'West Bank' town has decimated its population, wrecked its economy and hit tourism." In 2023, Leo Dee reported that in the Jerusalem Post, writing: “While Jesus’s homeland is under attack by Islamic terrorists, the number of Palestinian Christians in the land of Israel continues to decline, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reports that the Palestinian Authority has been Islamizing Bethlehem since they assumed control in 1995.” In addition, it was confirmed by a Canadian NGO towards the end of 2009 that members of Hamas have repeatedly desecrated Christian graves and exhumed the bodies, in order to ‘decontaminate’ the soil from the corpses of Christians who they believe to be unworthy of burial on Palestinian land.
Author: Barry Shaw
Published at: 2025-07-19 19:41:26
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