[[{"content_id":"123933","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Israelis also aggressing Christians","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2014-04-27 01:29:17","content_summary":"The Zionist regime of Israel has growingly toughened constraints on the religious programs of Christians","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"Qudsna, Ahmad Kazemzadeh (expert in ME affairs):\r\n\r\n\tThe Zionist regime of Israel has growingly toughened constraints on the religious programs of Christians inside and outside the occupied Palestine. The latest one came during the Easter holiday that led to complaint by the UN envoy and the EU diplomatic delegation.\r\n\r\n\tIsraeli police refused to let the U.N.'s peace envoy to the Middle East, other diplomats and a crowd of Palestinians pass through a barricade to attend a pre-Easter ritual in the Jerusalem church that Christians revere as the burial site of Jesus, the U.N. official said on Saturday.\r\n\r\n\tRobert Serry, the United Nation's peace envoy to the Middle East, said in a statement Israeli security officers had stopped a group of Palestinian worshippers and diplomats in a procession near the church, "claiming they had orders to that effect".\r\n\r\n\tSerry added in separate remarks to Reuters he had waited with Italian, Norwegian and Dutch diplomats for up to a half hour, crushed by a crowd against a barricade, while Israeli officers ignored his appeals to speak with a superior.\r\n\r\n\t"It became really dangerous because there was a big crowd and I was pushed against a metal fence the police put up there, the crowd tried to push really hard," Serry said, adding they might have been trampled had police not finally let them pass.\r\n\r\n\t"I don't understand why this happened," he added. "I'm not saying I felt my life was in imminent danger, but this wasn't something you associate with a peaceful procession for Easter."\r\n\r\n\tThe Zionist regime apparently pushes ahead a restriction program against Christians as it has already have in place a similar program against Muslims for so many years. By the move, it also seeks to send a message to Europe after the EU Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton urged Israel to put an end on settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and al-Quds ('Jerusalem').\r\n\r\n\tThe Israeli Easter move against Christian pilgrims was compounded by a statement by the regime's hardliner Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman in Facebook where he derided Ashton for her statement. But why the European media have kept silence at Lieberman's derisive remarks?\r\n\r\n\tThe Europeans appear to be unwilling to challenge an octopus-like hegemony of Zionists over the world media. They also seem to be unwilling to open the way for a new diplomatic challenge amid the Ukrainian crisis and the Iranian nuclear talks.\r\n\r\n\tThe Zionist regime however would take benefit from attacking the European Union as it seeks to keep the Palestinian issue in the US hands. When Washington abandoned its opposition to settlement expansion under the State Secretary John Kerry's push, the regime was emboldened to expand its settlement plans and confront opponents of its colonial policies.","content_html":"

\r\n\tQudsna, Ahmad Kazemzadeh (expert in ME affairs):<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Zionist regime of Israel has growingly toughened constraints on the religious programs of Christians inside and outside the occupied Palestine. The latest one came during the Easter holiday that led to complaint by the UN envoy and the EU diplomatic delegation.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tIsraeli police refused to let the U.N.'s peace envoy to the Middle East, other diplomats and a crowd of Palestinians pass through a barricade to attend a pre-Easter ritual in the Jerusalem church that Christians revere as the burial site of Jesus, the U.N. official said on Saturday.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tRobert Serry, the United Nation's peace envoy to the Middle East, said in a statement Israeli security officers had stopped a group of Palestinian worshippers and diplomats in a procession near the church, "claiming they had orders to that effect".<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tSerry added in separate remarks to Reuters he had waited with Italian, Norwegian and Dutch diplomats for up to a half hour, crushed by a crowd against a barricade, while Israeli officers ignored his appeals to speak with a superior.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t"It became really dangerous because there was a big crowd and I was pushed against a metal fence the police put up there, the crowd tried to push really hard," Serry said, adding they might have been trampled had police not finally let them pass.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t"I don't understand why this happened," he added. "I'm not saying I felt my life was in imminent danger, but this wasn't something you associate with a peaceful procession for Easter."<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Zionist regime apparently pushes ahead a restriction program against Christians as it has already have in place a similar program against Muslims for so many years. By the move, it also seeks to send a message to Europe after the EU Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton urged Israel to put an end on settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and al-Quds ('Jerusalem').<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Israeli Easter move against Christian pilgrims was compounded by a statement by the regime's hardliner Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman in Facebook where he derided Ashton for her statement. But why the European media have kept silence at Lieberman's derisive remarks?<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Europeans appear to be unwilling to challenge an octopus-like hegemony of Zionists over the world media. They also seem to be unwilling to open the way for a new diplomatic challenge amid the Ukrainian crisis and the Iranian nuclear talks.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Zionist regime however would take benefit from attacking the European Union as it seeks to keep the Palestinian issue in the US hands. When Washington abandoned its opposition to settlement expansion under the State Secretary John Kerry's push, the regime was emboldened to expand its settlement plans and confront opponents of its colonial policies.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-04-27 01:29:17","content_date_finish":"2014-04-27 01:29:17","content_date_register":"2014-04-27 01:29:17","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"122192","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3329991176","attach_date_register":"2014-04-27 01:29:21","attach_id":"118823","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"320","attach_img_height":"120","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"175","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 05:33:57","attach_title":"Israelis also aggressing Christians","node_title":"Commentaries","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":134, \"left\":25, \"right\":26}]"}]]