Bethlehem’s Unholy Night: Christmas Cancellation
As The Post reported on Christmas Eve, Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem — the birthplace of Jesus — were canceled due to the war and out of respect for the lives that have been lost (“Silent night,” Dec. 24).
As a Catholic and the Grand Knight of the St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council, I believe the celebrations should not have been canceled. Don’t forget Jesus Christ was proclaimed the “Prince of Peace.” Frederick Bedell
Bellerose
Someone needs to remind the Christian Arab clerics in Bethlehem that the war was started by Hamas, an Islamist organization.
Someone needs to also remind these dhimmis that Jesus was a Jew.
It is obvious that they only do as their Islamist overlords demand of them. Alice Lemos
Woodside
I cannot imagine anybody responding to this article with anything but
contempt for the Israel Defense Forces’ collective punishment of civilians in the Gaza Strip.
This is a call for Christians to get over themselves and their sick endtimes fantasy, where the state of Israel is the “stage” for Jesus’ return.
If you’re truly a Christian, you would understand that man must not intervene in what has been ordained by God.
Anglocentrism has seeped into the church in such a way that Christians cannot fathom that
people with complexions even a shade darker than theirs are also capable of loving Jesus.
American Christians are apathetic and insular, but not even insular enough to support nationalism. Doing that would require prioritizing the funding of American lives over Israeli military aggression.
Any Christian who claims to love Jesus should be outraged at the state of affairs in the Gaza Strip.
Eloise Haggerty
Brooklyn
After Hamas attacked Israel on a Jewish holiday, Christian leaders have now canceled Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem. This is the first year that the Christmas celebration has been canceled by Christian Palestinians.
But there will, of course, be no cancellations of Muslim holidays or festivals. K. Harrington The Bronx