Comments on: Israel’s not-so-stellar record on treatment of Christians

By: Leslie RENDON

Leslie RENDON — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:01:21 +0000

It’s sad that after all America has done for the state of Israel,Which is a CHRISTEN STATE that they would bite the hand that has feed them,and helped made it possiable for them to even be in there homeland.THere’s no way they could of done it themselves.

By: Tree

Tree — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:40:09 +0000

There was also the pressure on Christians during the December Christmas holidays, as Christmas trees were banned in public in Nazareth Illit, Israel. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/12/christmas-trees-are-still-banned-nazareth-illit/46463/

Thanks for writing this article, Yossi.

By: XYZ

XYZ — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:44:46 +0000

Lexington-
Do you find Arab violence against Israel “understandable”? Then how about some Jews not feeling friendly to Christians?

By: Lexington

Lexington — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:43:03 +0000

It’s great to hear the truth spoken, even this ugly one. The hatred of Christians by Israelis, and especially by Orthodox Jews, rarely gets reported. That Israle tolerates spitting on priests, and defacating and urinating on churches, shows how much their hearts are poisoned by hatred. The people that do this are visous and dangerous people, and will bring no good not only to Non Jews, but to themselves as well, but they are too full of hatred to know this.

By: the other joe

the other joe — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:33:15 +0000

@xyz – Islam and Christianity are missionary faiths. Get used to it.
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Indeed, it sounds very odd to me to hear a Jew complaining about people arguing a case.

By: XYZ

XYZ — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:18:30 +0000

I do not put so-called “Messianic Jews” in the same category as regular Christians. Christians should be Christians, Muslims should be Muslims and Jews should be Jews. As far as I am concerned, I (and Israel as a Jewish state) have no problem with Christians doing their own thing, but I DO have a problem with missionary activity directed at Jews. After the depredations the Christian world has directed at the Jewish population in their midst, including a massive decrease in the world’s Jewish population in the 20th century, carried out by Christians, I would hope and assume that modern Christians would understand the sensitivity of actions taken to take Jews away from their Jewish roots. Many Christians do , and I am appreciative of this.
Gurvitz has a negative view of all religions, his “concern” for the “Messianic Jews” has nothing to do with any feelings of tolerance or identification with them on his part, the opposition the mainline Jewish community feels to them is merely another in his long shopping list of complaints against the traditional Jewish religious community

By: annie

annie — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:29:31 +0000

sorry all, it was in the wee hrs here when i wrote this and really devastated by the article, feeling overly emotional when i started reading the comments. my post was not directed at joe, although i did use joe’s comment about what was ““particularly bad”. i probably should have made that clearer although i did try to place a space between the paragraphs. it’s really irrelevant what religion joe is.
max, what’s left of my post? you mean starting at the third paragraph? i suppose the anger i felt after reading ‘Israel’s not-so-stellar record on treatment of Christians’. my anger just erupted after reading some of the responses.
it still stands, what i feel. but i shouldn’t be posting at the wee hrs, too revealing of my true feelings. please ignore.

By: aristeides

aristeides — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:44:20 +0000

Thanks for the correction, Other.

By: the other joe

the other joe — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:30:58 +0000

I am a Christian, but I am not a USAmerican and never claimed to be. I have travelled many times in the West Bank, have been invited a few times to Gaza but never made it.
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@Ira, I am sorry for your pain, but I can’t see that your feelings of retribution towards other people (who just happen to share the same religion) helps anything very much.

By: RichardL

RichardL — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:54:31 +0000

Ira-
What are you – the personal redeemer to the millions of victims to Christianity throughout the centuries? If the whole of humanity took your attitude life would be one long blood feud. Yes, far worse than now.

“I can’t and I won’t”. Proper little tantrum eh?