Prominent Palestinian Christian cleric calls for violence to defend Jerusalem from Jews

Father Manuel Musallam, a prominent Palestinian Christian priest, was quoted as wanting Palestinians to use "weapons" to defend Jerusalem - and he was not speaking metaphorically.

Speaking as a member of the Committee for the Defense of Islamic and Christian Sanctities, Musallam  said today that "every weapon that does not ululate for the sake of Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Nativity, is suspicious, and we must defeat it."

He added, "By normalization, the Arabs will sign with Israel the defeat of the Islamic conquest and the fall of Umar’s Assurance, and that Palestine is no longer the land of the Arabs, and that Jerusalem is not the  Arab capital."

Musallam has a history of antisemitic statements. In a 1993 rally in Jenin, where the Oslo Accords were framed as a means to eventually wrest all of Israel from Jews, he received a seven minute standing ovation after saying:

From the gate of Al-Aqsa the herald cries:
"The Crescent and the Cross are the marks on my hands!"
God is greater than the enemies
Who occupy the Dome of the Rock and crucify us.

But he's just anti-Zionist, right?

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

 

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