Obviously it is true this is the call for the crucifixion of the
Palenians by the bulletAriel Sharon (and that is not his real name
either) attempts to nail them before the call for help is heard?
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EASTER IN TODAY'S "HOLY LAND"
"God willing, there will be a car-bomb very soon inside Israel,
and they too will cry. They will cry blood."
Quoted in today's New York Times
"Today the sniper's bullet substitutes for the crucifiers nails."
MID-EAST REALITIES © - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 4/13:
Two thousand years ago on the ancient streets of Jerusalem it was the Roman army
in control, the Jewish people under occupation, and Jesus, a heretical Jewish rabbi,
heading to his crucifixation as a result of "official" Jewish and Roman cooperation.
Today on these same ancient streets of Jerusalem it is the Israeli Army in
control, the Palestinian people under occupation, and Jewish rabbis with racist
ideologies who dominant the scene with visions of resurrecting the ancient Jewish
Temple in the years ahead. And yes as well, there is a cunning form of "official"
Jewish, Christian (the Vatican and other Chistian authorities), as well as Muslim (the
"client regimes" whom themselves have co-opted things Muslim) cooperation at work
making possible this Israeli occupation complete with its Romanesque brutality. Today
the sniper's bullet substitutes for the crucifiers nails.
How shameful today's situation should be for the Jewish people who at other times
in their own long history have suffered so terribly from such racist and militarist
madness. How shameful as well so many of those who so falsely and so hypocritically
speak in the names of Christianity and Islam today.
The "turn the other cheek" Christians may indeed believe that "God watches over us"
at Christmas time -- themselves still smitten with the medieval "son of God"
mythology. But then the Christian church too, especially the Roman Catholic church,
has so much blood on its own hands, so much need to atone for so many sins, past and
present. And the fact that a few well-meaning but oh so naive Christians now hold a
Washington monthly prayer vigil for peace in the Holy Land the 22nd of each month is a
bit like applying a little external bandaid to a raging internal cancer.
The tragic reality at this time of Easter is that all three of the religions of
the book, and all the common Children of Abraham, have so terribly besmirched their
own history, teachings, and values -- with the Israeli people, claiming to represent
the historical Jewish people, today at the very top of this devilish list for racism,
militarism, bloodletting and oh so much of the worst kinds of hypocrisy.
HOLY LAND VIOLENCE CLOUDS EASTER CELEBRATIONS
By Brian Williams
JERUSALEM, April 13 (Reuters) - Bowed down by crosses and carrying candles flickering
in empty drink bottles, Christian pilgrims on Friday retraced Jesus's walk to
crucifixion in subdued Holy Land Easter celebrations.
Protected by heavier-than-usual security because of recent Israeli-Palestinian
violence, the Good Friday religious parade is the once-a-year day when Christianity
takes the spotlight in a historic location also revered by Jews and Moslems.
However the numbers were dramatically down on previous years because of the violence.
"Fewer people and they don't seem as carried away as in other years," said a coffee
shop waiter.
Devout Christians have braved wars and ruthless rulers for nearly 2,000 years to make
the pilgrimage in the footsteps of Jesus along the Via Dolorosa in the old quarter of
Arab East Jerusalem.
Grouped in main Christian religions -- from Roman Catholic to Greek Orthodox to
Protestant -- as well as individuals, the pilgrims shuffled jammed together down the
narrow cobbled alleyway where the 14 Stations of the Cross lie.
The stations mark the places where Jesus was scourged, stumbled and crowned with
thorns. The journey starts at the prison -- now a church -- where Jesus was taken
after the Last Supper.
In one of the many historical ironies of the journey, the seven-month-old Palestinian
uprising against Israeli occupation flared just
