PROTECT LAND RIGHTS

“The problem with an IDF soldier smashing the face of Jesus is not that he smashed the face of Jesus. The problem is that he got caught on camera. And in fact, it turns out not only did the guy who did it get punished, punished, but so did the guy who filmed it. Because exposing what the IDF does to the rest of the world is the real crime.”

“Actually, it's not only helping me, it's helping Christianity or what has left from Christianity in Bethlehem, because we are less than 1 percent, and at least 200 families have emigrated since 7th of October, which is a big number for less than 1 percent.”

“You wonder what Mike Huckabee, the Baptist preacher turned US. Ambassador to Israel, has to say about this? Nothing. You wonder what Mike Johnson, the Christian Speaker of the House, has to say about this? You can imagine that this event, whether you're forward or not, probably won't be consistent with Christian values or even Judeo-Christian values, whatever those are.”

“It appeared to show an Israeli soldier, an IDF soldier, using a sledgehammer to smash the face of a statue of Jesus. Now, when people first saw this, we don't have a poll on it or anything, but we can imagine very few thought it was real. For one thing, social media is famously full of manufactured images created for who knows what purpose, mostly political, using AI. They're not real. And this one seemed especially fake, because it was supposedly shot in Lebanon.”

“In fact, everything that soldier has in his possession, you paid for because the entire IDF is paid for by the United States taxpayer. ... The United States gives so much money to Israel that its basic needs are met, and so it can use the surplus on incredibly generous social programs we don't have here, and it can use some of it to provide abortion for anyone who wants one.”

“They have invaded our land in 2024, which is after more than 15 years of struggling with the civil administration and with the settlers and with settlers' companies trying to take over our land and demolishing our properties there. They took advantage of the war after the 7th of October and they invaded the land and they have broken the Statue of Virgin Mary, they have broken also the icon, the picture of Virgin Mary, they have vandalized the cross.”

“I called the police, and he also tried to attack my mom, and the police arrested both of us, and we slept in jail for nothing. Because the police there in that area are most of them settlers, and working with the head of the settlements, Yerol Rosital, and working according to his instructions, because it's a big web of corrupted people.”