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Christmas Time Pictures of Israel's Victims

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It's Christmas time and the Israelis are busily destroying Palestinian homes and killing Palestinian kids. Even in this season of peace in the land of peace, the Israelis don't let the natives have a moment of peace but kill them, destroy their homes, and block access to Christianity's holiest site, the Church of the Nativity and Manger Square. The Israelis have cancelled all Christian celebrations in Bethlehem this year as they did last year without a peep out of the world's Christian community.
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Palestinian Hala H. Issa cries as an Israeli occupation army bulldozer (BACKGROUND) destroys her house in the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 17, 2002, a week before Christmas!

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Palestinian demonstrators destroy an Israeli army gate during a demonstration in the Palestinian West Bank City of Nablus, December 19, 2002. Angry Palestinians destroyed the gate that the Israeli occupation army built to separate the city of Nablus into two parts to prevent Palestinians from leaving the re-occupied city.

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Lebanese boys hold lanterns during a pre-Christmas celebration in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2002. About 150 Lebanese and Palestinian schoolchildren took part in the celebration calling for world peace.

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Palestinian youths carry their stone-throwing friend Alaa Sghedi, 15-year-old, after he was shot by Israeli occupation army soldiers in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah near the border with Egypt Wednesday Dec. 18, 2002. Alaa, with several bulets to his body, including one in the head, died shortly after the shooting.

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An Israeli soldier grabs a Palestinian from his neck as he prevents him of getting home into the Palestinian West bank city of Nablus at the Hawara checkpoint on the outskirts of the city Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002. Dozens of roadblocks, set up by the Israeli occupation army, have sealed Palestinian cities and prevent most people from traveling.

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Relatives of Jawad Zeidan, 17-year-old, mourn over his body at the family house in the Palestinian Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday December 18, 2002. Zeidan was killed Tuesday night from an Israeli occupation army tank shell that hit his home.

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Palestinian women collect their belongings from the remains of their destroyed houses in Rafah southern Gaza Strip Monday Dec. 16, 2002. Israeli soldiers demolished 16 Palestinian houses in the refugee camp near the Jewish settlement of Morag, leaving more than 100 people homeless. We send billions to Israel so that it can make Palestinians homeless rather than using that money for Universal Health Care in our own country.
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by chris parsons

Very depressing.

Now, for the sake of balanced reporting, do you have any images of Hizbollah's or Hamas's victims?

Otherwise, the average person visiting this site will be quick to assume this is just a facile excercise in tendentious propaganda - and not the superlative example of unbiased reporting that it is.

Kidding.
by T.I.P.S
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"just a facile excercise in tendentious propaganda"


Was Dominik Suter a David Irving fabrication, Chris?


If not, why would you repeatedly try to assert otherwise?
by Fr. labib Kobti (veryfriendlyto [at] aol.com)
I do not know if I am getting the right person.

I am a Catholic Priest from San Francisco, Pastor of St. Thomas More off Brotherhood Way.
I saw the program about the Palestinians and Israel and I liked it. You have said if somebody have some ideas please email us.
Here I am then.

I have been working on this issue for over 10 years in the USA. I have a very known website: http://www.Al-Bushra.org Al-Bushra website that tries to speak out on things.

I am an expert on the issue of the Holy Land as I come from there. I am a priest from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. I mean sent by the Patriarch, Catholic Archbishop of the Holy Land to serve the Arab-American Catholic in the Bay Area since 1992.

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Or see some of my work, I will be so happy to help in any way I can.


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Please visit:http://www.al-bushra.org/palestine/refugee.htm
http://www.al-bushra.org/palestine/refugee.htm

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AND MORE THAT ALL THAT:
Al-Bushra.Org Al-Bushra is the work of a Catholic Priest, Father Labib Kobti who dedicated his life for JUSTICE, PEACE and TRUTH. ( Fr. Labib Kobti is a priest from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the service the Arab-Americans in California, the office is in San Francisco).

About Fr. Labib Kobti, please visit: http://www.al-bushra.org/LabibKobti/labib.htm or labib

What is Al-Bushra.org albushra (http://www.al-bushra.org/bushra/albushra.htm)?
And how I can support the work of Al-Bushra.org answer (http://www.al-bushra.org/bushra/answer.htm)?

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Please tell all your friends about Al-Bushra.org. Al-Bushra
VISIT OUR DIFFERENT LINKS ON EVERY PAGE.


Father labib Kobti
San Francisco
St. Thomas More (off Brotherhood Way0
Tel 415-333-3301


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