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Thu 25 Dec 2025 8:01 am - Jerusalem Time

Arrest of Santa Claus!

Ibrahim Milhem

Ibrahim Milhem

Opinion Writer

The incident occurred in the city of Haifa the day before yesterday, during the Christians' celebration in the city of the glorious Christmas, during which they were subjected to mockery and the blackout of Christmas lights, which returned after a darkness that prevailed for two full years of extermination.

The arrest of Santa Claus is not an ordinary fleeting arrest, but rather an arrest of joy, happiness, and delight, as he was caught while flooding the hearts that were wounded and deprived of it throughout the two years of extermination, during which the Christmas tree was not lit, in mourning and grief for the souls of the victims in the slaughtered sector, whose churches were subjected to massacres in which children, women, and families perished who took refuge in them considering them a safe place from the mad war, which targeted mosques, schools, universities, hospitals, and all means of life.

The matter did not stop at arresting joy, but extended to the official presence expressing national joy, by Israel preventing the Vice President and his representative Hussein Al-Sheikh from attending the midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity, before retracting its decision after American intervention, which carries political connotations and meanings, for Netanyahu and his ruling coalition have long expressed their pursuit to undermine the status of the Authority, and what it represents as a legal personality expressing the rights of the Palestinian people, and their aspirations for freedom and independence, ending the occupation, and establishing the independent state.

If the enemy of the sun, the enemy of life, is capable of extinguishing the lights, arresting Santa Claus, and preventing the official attendance of a religious celebration, then he will not be able to arrest the air, which is fragrant with joy, and illuminates the wounded hearts with the Christmas star, which heralds life, and promises the end of injustice, and the receding of darkness no matter how long it lasts.

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