Originally posted by tabibito
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Honestly it's rather mindboggling how any Christian could stand by and support Israel and its actions and abuses of their own fellow Christians (maybe it's that Christians don't realize there are many Christian Palestinians, all off whom are treated the same way as Muslim Palestinians? They are, and they are often the focus of severe abuses by Jewish Israeli settlers, including graffiti on churches cursing Jesus, destruction of property, prevention of them from being able to go to Bethlehem, etc), and to see those Christians here in the US defend or try to downplay Israel's behaviors in one breath, while expressing horror and condemnation toward, say, China's treatment of Christians, or heck, even the burning of churches in Canada the last few months or the crackdown by government on in-person worship at churches in some US states and in Canada, etc.
But then the even more mind-boggling is that the people here and elsewhere who would be the loudest against covid restrictions, against checkpoints preventing travel if you are unvaccinated, etc., etc., will sit with a straight face and defend Israel's behaviors which are far worse than that. Do you even understand how hard it is to even go about daily life as a Palestinian under Israeli control? If someone were to impose those levels of restrictions here, we'd see outright rebellion. The silence when it's someone else (at least when it's not in a white western country - because we've seen outrage expressed over New Zealand's policies and Australia's...... )is very telling.
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