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Bethlehem: Living Between Tear Gas and Christmas Ornaments (from last year)
You wouldn’t know it from reading our mainstream media, but many Syrians, despite the suffering in this awful war, are celebrating Christmas and the recent end of fighting in Aleppo.
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ISRAEL, PALESTINE, GAZA. . . and the US
Bethlehem: Living Between Tear Gas and Christmas Ornaments (from last year)
Bethlehem is a besieged city surrounded by a 26-foot-high wall erected on much of its perimeter. This imposing edifice prevents many farmers from getting to their land and restricts residents from performing everyday actions, like going to school or work. By the time it is completed, 56 kilometers of this barrier—which many call the apartheid wall—will leave 12 communities physically separated from the rest of Bethlehem. Fully 85 percent of the Governorate of Bethlehem is classified as part of Area C—under complete Israeli control in all security and civil matters. In addition, there are 19 settlements—illegal according to international law and officially opposed by the U.S. government—surrounding the governorate which house over 100,000 Israeli settlers… This Christmas season, as Christians the world over sing of Baby Jesus’s little town of Bethlehem, they must also remember that this city remains under a crippling Israeli occupation. There will be no meaningful peace in Bethlehem as long as the Palestinians there have to live with the wall, settlements, and an unrelenting military chokehold. More
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