{"id":301420,"date":"2025-08-25T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=301420"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:02:12","slug":"israel-is-hell-bent-on-dispossessing-all-palestinians-including-christians-of-their-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/israel-is-hell-bent-on-dispossessing-all-palestinians-including-christians-of-their-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Is Hell-Bent on Dispossessing All Palestinians Including Christians of Their Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tales of Accelerated Land Theft in the Holly Land of Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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from FORSEA<\/p><\/div>\n

16 Aug 2025 – \u201cThe Tent of Nations continues to live out its mission under occupation\u2014surrounded by settlements, locked gates, flying checkpoints, and daily restrictions that try to suffocate hope. It feels at times like we are in an open-air prison.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In his 90-minute interview with an American Christian clergy who lived in Israel for years, the \u00a0journalist and MAGA standard-bearer Tucker Carlson<\/a> was visibly surprised that Israel is dispossessing Christians among the native Palestinian population.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, if you are Christians living in the occupied territories of Palestine \u2013 where most of the historical Christian activities were rooted (East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jacob\u2019s Well, etc.) your life is as equally effected as Muslim Palestinians by the symptoms and methods of Israel\u2019s military occupation, in place for nearly 60-years.<\/p>\n

Carlson was unaware that the genocidal ethnostate of Israel is no exception to the general observation that victim populations in cases of genocide tend to be multiple identity-based peoples although a genocide may come to be associated with a singular ID-based victim population (say, predominantly Muslim Palestinians).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Carlson may be forgiven for thinking that Israel would spare Christians of Palestine.<\/p>\n

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A large framed poster depicting the marriage of religion and ethnostate\u2019s militarism, framed as an expression of \u201cfreedom of religion\u201d, hangs on the outside wall of at a popular souvenir shop inside the Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem (photo by Zarni, January 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For Christian Zionists have been a crucial faith-based Western population clamouring for the creation and maintenance of Israel. For instance, imperialist Britain\u2019s Christian Zionists in high offices made it possible for the Zionists to take a slice of Arab land for the creation of \u201cthe Jewish national homeland\u201d with its so-called Balfour Declaration of October 1917. In the United States, the unconditional support for Israel has come from small but very well-organized and influential networks of Christian Zionists, whose support is anchored in their fanatical belief in the biblical \u201cend times\u201d and the second coming of their messiah in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

In December 2013, I joined Daniel Feierstein<\/a>, the noted Jewish Argentinian scholar (who at the time was serving President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars) and a dozen other distinguished activists and scholars<\/a> in the old industrial city of Bremen, Germany. We were there to deliberate as the judges of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Sri Lanka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the crucial points Professor Feierstein drove home during the deliberations was that in most cases of genocides, the genocidal state, typically backed by the majoritarian society already imbued with ethno \u2013 or religious-supremacist worldviews, persecutes more than a single targeted population. For instance, while the single largest number of victims that were physically destroyed (exterminated or annihilated) and mass deported, were Jewish, other identity-based victim populations included Soviet Prisoners of War, Polish political dissidents, German Communists and trade unionists, disabled German children, Roma and Sinti people and Jehovah Witness Christians.<\/p>\n

In Myanmar\u2019s military-led genocide case, Rohingyas have certainly fared worst as the principal targeted population singled out for physical destruction, land dispossession and violent mass deportation from their ancestral land of Northern Rakhine across Myanmar\u2019s borders \u2013 into neighbouring Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. Other ethnic groups, including Kachin, and Myanmar Muslims<\/a>, (as well as Chin, Karenni, Karen, Mon, Shan, etc.) have also faced persecution due to their identity or the central state\u2019s internal colonization of land.<\/p>\n

The acquisition of land with residential population with a different ethnic, religious, national and racial identity is typically a goal of genocidal regimes \u2013 and society, be it Nazi Germany, the military-ruled Buddhist Supremacist Myanmar or Israel.<\/p>\n

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A banner pinned on the wall of a makeshift Save Armenian Quarter activist centre, Armenian Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem (photo by Zarni, January 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Delegation Members \u2013 Prof. Michimi Muranushi of Tokyo, journalist Jane Stillwater of Berkeley, & Dr Diane Kirby of Belfast, N. Ireland, with an Armenian Palestinian activist at the activist centre. (photo Zarni, January 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Despite its vocal opposition to Netanyahu and his far right allies such as Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, also with a key position in the Ministry of Defence, the fact that even the country\u2019s oldest newspaper, considered \u201cliberal\u201d or \u201csoft Zionist\u201d, is deceptively entitled Haaretz \u201cthe people of the land<\/em>\u201d, established by Eastern European Zionist settlers in 1918 and biblically narrated, speaks volumes.<\/p>\n

Land is a very crucial goal.<\/p>\n

In his infamously vile and racist Mein Kampf<\/a>, Hitler called it \u201cLebensraum<\/em>\u2014or \u201cliving space\u201d, to be cleansed of Untermensch<\/em> or subhuman residential populations.<\/p>\n

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Source: Mein Kampf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a> explains this (genocidally acquired) living space thus: The concept of Lebensraum\u2014or \u201cliving space\u201d\u2014served as a critical component in the Nazi worldview that drove both its military conquests and <\/em>racial policy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is rather chilling for me, as a student of genocide, to hear the echoes of Adolf Hitler\u2019s \u201cI could see the Fate has decreed my destiny\u201d \u2013 which appeared as a promotional line on the cover of Mein Kampf \u2013 in Netanyahu\u2019s \u201chistoric and spiritual mission<\/a>\u201d to build Greater Israel, based on the bible as the Jewish State\u2019s map!<\/p>\n

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A curatorial sign posted on a section of the wall in the Jewish Quarter where archaeology is bent to serve the ethnic and religious cleansing of the Old Jerusalem as the Jewish City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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IDF runs an indoctrination program bringing regulars and reservists to the Jewish Quarter inside the walled City of Jerusalem where they get a heavy dose of the messianic Fascist version of Eretz Israel (Greater Israel) from the IDF\u2019s trained guides. (photo by Zarni, January 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Israel\u2019s program of indoctrination involves a very toxic mix of Judaism, European ethno-supremacy and statist-militarism It is a common sight in the Jewish Quarter to spot large numbers of young IDF soldiers on guided tours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A large sign on a decaying fa\u00e7ade of ticket office inside Al Aqsa Mosque (the vast compound and the mosques) spells out a respectful dress code as it is Islam\u2019s 3rd holiest site (photo by Zarni)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Protected by the 24\/7 presence of the Israeli security troops (in black uniform at the centre of this photo, for instance), both at the entrances and throughout Al Aqsa Mosque (and the Holy City of the Old Jerusalem), Zionist Jewish visitors come to Muslims\u2019 holy compound, in open contempt for the general dress code for the visitors, Muslims and others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Part of our international scholars\u2019 delegation approaching the Dome of the Rock where Prophet Mohamad was believed to have ascended the Heaven.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Today\u2019s Israel\u2019s senior leaders openly defy any existing post-World War II and post-Holocaust international law, treaties and conventions \u2013 including the Convention<\/a> on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and grab the land only for the Jewish Israelis. It has adopted policies of multiple economic sweeteners to entice Zionist Jews from the diaspora worldwide.<\/p>\n

To date there are estimated 800,000 settlers a large percentage of whom are Americans. About 200,000 of these settlers have been issued automatic assault rifles and plenty of munition by the state of Israel. As an additional instrument of the Zionist state\u2019s attempt to expand its land grab, Israel has accorded these settlers complete impunity to harass, obstruct and otherwise terrorise native Palestinians<\/a> under occupation with the singular objective of making Palestinian life impossible, thereby abandon their ancestral land \u201cvoluntarily\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Here Awdah Hathaleen (in grew T-shirt), a 31-year old Palestinian activist and teacher in the village of Umm al-Khair in South Hebron Hills, the West Bank, was seen speaking to a 30-member delegation from USA and UK \u2013 Rabbis for Ceasefire and Christians for Ceasefire, at his village community centre and children\u2019s playground, Sept. 2024 (photo by Zarni) Recently, he became <\/em>the latest murdered Palestinian activist by Israeli settlers<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Zarni paying homage to Raphael Lemkin, \u201cthe father of genocide, both the concept and law, at the latter\u2019s home in Lviv (present day Ukraine, and the Polish city of Lwow until after the World War II), May 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lemkin would be turning in his grave that the Zionist state of Israel and its Western allies have, for all intents and purposes, butchered the law that is meant to prevent this crime of barbarism against fellow human populations \u2013 in Israel\u2019s unfolding case both Christians and Muslims of Palestine \u2013 for want of their land only for the Zionist Jews.<\/p>\n

The Times of Israel<\/a> has recently quoted Smotrich as saying, \u201c(a)fter decades of international pressure and freezes, we are breaking conventions and connecting Ma\u2019ale Adumim to Jerusalem. This is Zionism at its best \u2013 building, settling and strengthening our sovereignty in the Land of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

In my second visit to the West Bank and Israel with a small international delegation of scholars hosted by Jerusalem-based Liberation Theology centre Sabeel<\/a>, I learned a variety of methods of land grab the state of Israel (comprising of all executive, legislature and judicial branches) is resorting<\/p>\n

Our delegation spoke to representatives and activists of different Palestinian populations, including Palestinian family farmers, rural-based Bedouin villagers, Armenian Christians and \u201cblack Palestinians\u201d in and around East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

East Jerusalem is officially designated by the United Nations as the capital for the full sovereign state of Palestine, already recognized by over 140 out of 190 member states of the UN.<\/p>\n

Justifiably, the fully fledged genocide of Gaza\u2019s 2.3 million people \u2013 the figures at the start of Israel\u2019s biblical war against Hamas) \u2013 whom Israel has been starving<\/a> to their slow deaths and slaughtering, on a daily basis, at the perversely named \u201chumanitarian aid distribution centres\u201d<\/a> \u2013 4 in total, from the original 400 run by the United Nations before \u2013 makes daily headline news.<\/p>\n

Equally troubling is the fact that Israel is speeding up its unconcealed plan to colonially annex the entire West Bank (and East Jerusalem), which it has militarily occupied since 1967.<\/p>\n

The West Bank has a 500+ kilometre long \u201capartheid wall\u201d, which has proven effective in producing mass pauperization of the 3 million Palestinians in this occupied section of the UN-recognized Palestinian territories. In fact, Israel has been running all occupied territories like its unacknowledged de facto colonies. The Palestinian Authority on the European Union payroll has long been rendered impotent to protect the Palestinian population under decades of illegal occupation.<\/p>\n

In the recorded interviews here, you will hear firsthand tales of Israel\u2019s various strategies and policies <\/a>aimed at dispossessing indigenous and ancient Palestinian populations from their land, be they Christians, Muslims, atheists, communists, sheep-herding Bedouin and their land, church-owned<\/a>, residential, rural, or Islamic.<\/p>\n

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Two Armenian Palestinian activists currently fighting a legal battle within Israel\u2019s judicial system in order to regain ownership of the part of the Armenian church land illegally acquired through the Israeli state-linked real estate organization (photo by Zarni, January 2025)<\/p>\n