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Christians of the Holy Land

April 22, 2012 4:00 PM

The exodus from the Holy Land of Palestinian Christians could eventually leave holy cities like Jerusalem and Bethlehem without a local Christian population. Bob Simon reports.

Christians of the Holy Land

60 Minutes OverTimeThe last Christian village in the Holy Land

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by Rharb April 28, 2012 9:37 AM EDT
Thank you Bob for your report. I am rather impressed with the strength of your character. You obviously did not succumb to Zionist bullying! Bravo
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by DemocracyVideo April 28, 2012 12:55 AM EDT
Thank you for showing the "fence" - it's not often that you see it from the Palestinian side.
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by 88Ronin April 27, 2012 6:03 PM EDT
This is yet more proof that RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY GOVERNMENT.

Religion is doing to America what it has done to The Middle East.

Want peace and plenty? Get religion out of government.
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by seeker0112 April 27, 2012 4:59 PM EDT
From "The Forward" newspaper, as quoted on Mondoweiss, regarding the 60 Minutes show: "Israelis, however, are pleased with the bottom line. 'It could have been much worse,' said an Israeli official who noted that Oren's intervention succeeded in getting Israel's point of view into the story and in postponing it from sensitive broadcast dates during Christmas and Easter."

The story should have been much worse, because Israel's treatment of Christians (and Muslims) is much worse than CBS portrayed it. Christians who are Israeli citizens are prohibited from living in most Israel's towns; most of them cannot move back to the towns of their birth. The country is a bastion of bigotry against non-Jews, yet Simon did not challenge Oren's claim that Israeli Christians were "thriving."
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by razorphish April 27, 2012 4:41 PM EDT
This is the first time I've been shocked by the irresponsibility of a 60 minutes piece. The Palestinian problem today exists because the Palestinian Authority WANTS there to be a problem. Without a Israel/Palestinian problem...there is no problem, and they would have to think of a different reason to hate Israel. Everyone knows why the barrier was built, and it has been very successful in reducing the number of unprovoked violent attacks against Israel. Want the wall to come down...then stop strapping bombs on your bodies and killing innocent women, children, and men. A legitimate piece would be to explain what was happening that caused the barrier to be constructed, how successful it is at addressing that problem, what impact the wall has had on the area, and what it would take to bring it down. Then let people decide for themselves about the validity of it. Report the story, don't create it!
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by alisonweir April 27, 2012 4:26 PM EDT
Simon's interview with Oren was particularly valuable, since Oren used to pose as an "objective" historian -- few people knew he was a reserve officer in the Israeli military much of this time (on active duty some of the time). The fact is that Israel attacked Christians (and Muslims) from its earliest days. See "Christians Discriminated Against by Israel," by Donald Neff; "What Christians Don't Know About Israel," by Grace Halsell; and, more recently, "Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Israel," by the Associated Press. Neff, a former Time Magazine senior editor, and Halsell, an author and New York Times contributor, wrote extremely important articles on this topic -- which is why almost no one has heard of them. See their reporting at the IfAmericansKnew.org website.
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by Reuben_of_NYC April 27, 2012 4:22 PM EDT
Dont let these propgandists fool you when they say that Muslims are burning down the churches. All one needs to do is google "price tag attacks" and you will see who is burning down what.

Jerusalem Christians are latest targets in recent spate of 'price tag' attacks
Attack on Baptist Congregation marks the latest in series of attacks targeting Muslim, Christian and leftist institutions in Jerusalem over last two months.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jerusalem-christians-are-latest-targets-in-recent-spate-of-price-tag-attacks-1.413848

Israel is very good at catching "terrorists" all over the world yet they have yet to arrest anyone in connection with any of these attacks upon the Muslim and Christian Palestinians. When Jewish cemeteries or Synagogues anywhere in the world are defaced the Jewish people organize and call for action against the criminals, so why are these crimes against other religions in Israel and the Occupied territories left unsolved? Perhaps they need the help of the people outside of Israel who have solved the crimes against their religious sites to help them since they seem to be unable to do the job themselves?
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by TimeToEvolve April 27, 2012 4:11 PM EDT
I have been writing in to 60 minutes on several petitions from Jewish Voice for Peace and another group thanking 60 minutes. As a Jewish man who works for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine, I am very thankful that someone is doing actual journalism. It is about time that more people knew the truth about what has been happening to the Arabs in Israel since 1948.
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by bobenee April 27, 2012 4:04 PM EDT
Thanks for this section about the Christians in the Holy Land. It shows the dangers which come when a theocracy is established, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other religion. We don't need holy lands, we need holy people honoring each other.
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by Sept14 April 27, 2012 4:00 PM EDT
Did you know that, "Financed with U.S. aid at a cost of $1.5 million per mile, the Israeli wall prevents residents from receiving health care and emergency medical services. In other areas, the barrier separates farmers from their olive groves which have been their families' sole livelihood for generations." [Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Page 43, Jan/Feb. 2007]
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