A myth called Israel Al Hayat, London, December 28 Prominent Arab writer Jihad AL Khazen, says that even though Jews killed Jesus and insulted the Virgin Mary, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described Jesus as the Palestinian prophet, the fascist Israeli government became enraged. Abbas sent his Christmas greetings to the world and said that 2000 years ago Bethlehem witnessed the birth of the Palestinian Christ. Christians are a part of the Palestinian people. However, the Israeli foreign minister accused Abbas of rudely rewriting history. The occupation besieged Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, making it difficult for tourists to visit. Jesus spoke Aramaic at that time when neither Israel nor the Hebrew language existed in Roman-ruled Palestine. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, an immigrant from Moldova, came to our lands as a refugee and worked as a bouncer in a bar. Pro-Israel activists want to focus on the fake issues, they plan campaigns against Abbas and accuse the jihadists of threating Christianity. Jesus and his mother are from us, and Israel is another Torah myth.An artist in my occupied country Wattan, Ramallah, December 30 I lost count of the number of Arab artists coming to perform in Palestine, says Israeli-affairs expert Mohammed Abu Allan, but I know that the Israeli settlement council in the West Bank brought 80 European parliamentarians and 130 journalists to tour the West Bank settlements. Do we only know how to bring artists here? Where is the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of information? Why aren’t the Palestinian ambassadors involved in creating public opinion supporting the Palestinian cause and against the occupation? Those who organize with the Israeli authorities to allow these artists to visit Palestine can organize visits for journalists and politicians so they can see the reality on the ground. I am not against these visits but it angers me that the Israeli settlement council succeeded in creating a lobby in the German Bundestag against an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. The lobby opposes the settlement- building freeze, and rejects the boycott of Israel. Our politicians’ work doesn’t go beyond Ramallah.

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