{"id":15026,"date":"2010-11-23T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=15026"},"modified":"2010-11-26T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T10:20:48","slug":"al-qaeda%e2%80%99s-massacre-of-christians-in-iraq-was-timed-to-help-israelis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=15026","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda\u2019s massacre of Christians in Iraq was timed to help Israelis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Someday, probably far in the future, there will be a public revelation in the corporate media that “Al Qaeda\u201d is a false flag operation, created, shepherded, and managed at the top, by certain western intelligence agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Al-Qaeda\u2019s Christian Massacre: Aiding and Abetting the Occupation of Palestine<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Maidhc \u00d3 Cathail \/ Dissident Voice<\/a> | November 20th, 2010<\/p>\n

If we are to believe the voice on those Osama bin Laden tapes, the elusive al-Qaeda leader cares deeply about Palestine. Yet the actions of the terrorist network he supposedly still directs all too often belie its statements of concern for their \u201cbrothers\u201d under Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n

The massacre of Iraqi Christians at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad also makes one wonder about claims that the group has \u201ca great sense of timing.\u201d The slaughter of Catholic Mass-goers occurred just one week after church leaders from across the Middle East had forcefully condemned Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n

More than 200 members of 14 different churches had gathered in Rome for a papal synod to address concerns about Christian emigration from the region. However, as one commentator observed, \u201cTime and again, they turned the discussions \u2026 towards the Palestinian question.\u201d<\/p>\n

In their final communiqu\u00e9, the bishops urged the international community to apply UN Security Council resolutions and take \u201cthe necessary legal steps to put an end to the occupation of the different Arab territories.\u201d Significantly, they charged the Israeli occupation with causing tensions that have led to the exodus of Christians from the Middle East.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up news conference, the archbishop in charge of the committee that drafted the communiqu\u00e9, Cyrille Salim Bustros, rejected any biblical justification for the Zionist project. \u201cThe concept of the promised land cannot be used as a base for the justification of the return of Jews to Israel and the displacement of Palestinians,\u201d he said. \u201cSacred scripture should not be used to justify the occupation by Israel of Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Tel Aviv was none too pleased with this serious challenge to the legitimacy of the self-described Jewish state. The following day, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon issued a statement condemning the bishops. The synod, he said, had been \u201chijacked by an anti-Israel majority,\u201d turning it into \u201ca forum for political attacks on Israel in the best history of Arab propaganda.\u201d In particular, his government was \u201cappalled\u201d by Archbishop Bustros\u2019 \u201coutrageous comments,\u201d describing them as \u201ca libel against the Jewish people and the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

One week later, the Anti-Defamation League sought to enlist Pope Benedict XVI to Israel\u2019s side. Expressing condolences over the Baghdad killings, ADL leaders asked the pope to \u201cjoin together to eliminate all terrorism in the name of religion\u201d and \u201cto use the Church\u2019s moral authority to prevent Israel from being made a pariah by its enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n

But with the Israeli occupation under such censure from Rome, it was a rather odd time for avowed supporters of the Palestinian cause to slaughter Catholics in the Middle East. Indeed, many Iraqi Muslims harbour \u201csuspicions\u201d about the shadowy al-Qaeda front\u2019s targeting of \u201cessentially non-players\u201d in the country\u2019s post-invasion sectarian strife.<\/p>\n

Indeed, if anyone benefited from the church massacre it was Israel. Reminiscent of the Zionist underground\u2019s attacks on Iraqi Jews in the 1950s, this assault on the Christian minority was clearly designed to encourage them to flee the country where they had lived in relative peace and prosperity for two millennia.<\/p>\n

The removal of a Christian presence from the Muslim-dominated region would eliminate the model of coexistence as a viable alternative to the \u201cclash of civilizations\u201d view of the world. \u201cBy focusing attention on a direct and eternal conflict between the West and Islam,\u201d M. Shahid Alam argues in his new book, the clash thesis aims \u201cto acquit Israel of serving as the chief source and conduit of this conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, the massacre lent plausibility to the Israeli narrative on why Christians are leaving the Middle East. In a 2006 report by the hawkishly pro-Israel Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, titled \u201cThe Christian Exodus from the Middle East,\u201d senior fellows Jonathan Adelman and Agota Kuperman concluded: \u201cThe single greatest cause of this emigration is radical Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, it was a representative from Baghdad at the synod who had suggested a way to encourage Middle East emigrants to return to Palestine. Armenian Archbishop Emmanuel Dabbaghian proposed that every bishop should make an annual visit to the Holy Land. \u201cThe influx of pilgrims to the Holy Land,\u201d he said, \u201cwould convince the inhabitants who have emigrated to return to their homeland.\u201d Given the apprehension about \u201cthe Arab demographic threat,\u201d such a development would be viewed with trepidation in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael, the Jewish State, is predicated on a decisive and stable Jewish majority of at least 70 percent,\u201d Michael Oren, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United States, wrote in a 2009 article in Commentary magazine. \u201cAny lower than that and Israel will have to decide between being a Jewish state and a democratic state.\u201d Still, it\u2019s an improvement on the \u201cat least 80 percent Jews\u201d that David Ben-Gurion said would be necessary for \u201ca viable and stable state\u201d on the eve of the premeditated ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Muslims and Christians.<\/p>\n

In contrast to al-Qaeda\u2019s efforts to drive a wedge between Islam and Christianity, the solidarity between the world\u2019s two largest religions in Palestine poses a real threat to the Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n

Sabeel, an ecumenical grassroots liberation theology movement among Palestinian Christians, in its \u201cJerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism,\u201d affirms \u201cthat Palestinians are one people, both Muslim and Christian\u201d and rejects \u201call attempts to subvert and fragment their unity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Couldn\u2019t the Baghdad church massacre also be seen as an attempt to \u201csubvert and fragment\u201d Palestinian unity? With \u201cbrothers\u201d like al-Qaeda, who needs enemies?<\/p>\n

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If we are to believe the voice on those Osama bin Laden tapes, the elusive al-Qaeda leader cares deeply about Palestine. Yet the actions of the terrorist network he supposedly still directs all too often belie its statements of concern for their \u201cbrothers\u201d under Israeli occupation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iraq","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15174,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions\/15174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}