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**Liabmeasez** · 12-02-2009, 06:34 AM

Perhaps a Jew did kill the priest, but perhaps not. As in the case of Father Daniel, so far no proof of the killer's identity has been revealed. With respect, I don't trust Jewish, Muslim or Christian news sources from the Middle East. Generational hate has clouded their minds. For example, the polemical reporting of Fr. Phelomenous's death has aspects of ancient Jewish ritual murder charges. That alone raised an alarm bell. My heart breaks for Palestinian and Israeli Christians. On one hand, they are second class citizens subjected in my view to a ruinous occupation in the lands Israel took by force in 1967. But on the other hand, considering the news from the rest of the Middle East, Israel is a country of religious tolerance.

Anyway, I will do further research into the Nablus murder, but thank God the church at Jacob's Well is almost completely restored. We would also do well to remember who destroyed that church in 1157.

As I said before, I praise God for His Holiness Kirill. The wise and godly Patriarch understands the unfortunate facts of Russian history namly the pogroms of the early Twentieth Century. Let us praise the memory and walk as Father Daniel and Father Phelomenous but not give into the passions of hating Muslims or Jews.

In charity, I think that we can report facts without giving way to hatred. And given your characterization of Israel's "ruinous occupation" and "subjugation" has a touch of (well, a great deal of) polemicism to it.

I don't think anyone is blaming "Jews" or "Muslims" for these crimes. Even if they did kill these holy men, and did so out of religious fervor, that doesn't mean we can't pray for their conversion of heart. But we can't stick our heads in the sand, either. We are called to love our enemies, not to pretend that they are not our enemies-- is not the unfathomable mercy of Christ revealed in precisely this?

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Liabmeasez Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	Perhaps a Jew did kill the priest, but perhaps not. As in the case of Father Daniel, so far no proof of the killer's identity has been revealed. With respect, I don't trust Jewish, Muslim or Christian news sources from the Middle East. Generational hate has clouded their minds. For example, the polemical reporting of Fr. Phelomenous's death has aspects of ancient Jewish ritual murder charges. That alone raised an alarm bell. My heart breaks for Palestinian and Israeli Christians. On one hand, they are second class citizens subjected in my view to a ruinous occupation in the lands Israel took by force in 1967. But on the other hand, considering the news from the rest of the Middle East, Israel is a country of religious tolerance. Anyway, I will do further research into the Nablus murder, but thank God the church at Jacob's Well is almost completely restored. We would also do well to remember who destroyed that church in 1157. As I said before, I praise God for His Holiness Kirill. The wise and godly Patriarch understands the unfortunate facts of Russian history namly the pogroms of the early Twentieth Century. Let us praise the memory and walk as Father Daniel and Father Phelomenous but not give into the passions of hating Muslims or Jews. In charity, I think that we can report facts without giving way to hatred. And given your characterization of Israel's "ruinous occupation" and "subjugation" has a touch of (well, a great deal of) polemicism to it. I don't think anyone is blaming "Jews" or "Muslims" for these crimes. Even if they did kill these holy men, and did so out of religious fervor, that doesn't mean we can't pray for their conversion of heart. But we can't stick our heads in the sand, either. We are called to love our enemies, not to pretend that they are not our enemies-- is not the unfathomable mercy of Christ revealed in precisely this?
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