Assault on Christian Symbols

In response to the overthrow and assault on the symbol of Jesus Christ by an Israeli settler soldier, Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna described this behavior as carrying implications of racial hostility towards all that is Christian, Muslim, and Arab. He said: "Whoever assaults Christian symbols is the same one who assaults Islamic symbols, and he is the same one who kills people, and killing people is no less important than targeting religious symbols." Archbishop Atallah Hanna concluded by saying: "They do not believe in peace, nor in brotherhood, nor in partnership; rather, they are racist in their dealings with Christian clergy and with Islamic clergy. They are the ones who prevented prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They are a foreign occupation that infringes upon our rights, our dignity, and our faith, but that will only increase our determination to remain and stand firm on the Holy Land." Israeli Zionist recklessness and extremism are an expression of "insolence," deluding themselves that oppression and force, and suppressing the other, are the way for the colony to survive and for its project to succeed on the land of Palestine, and from there extending to the Arab East with hegemony, dominance, and unilateralism. The leaders of the colonial project deluded themselves that they would be outside the conclusion of those who preceded them among the colonizers. They did not learn from the hegemony of Great Britain, whose sun never set on its colonies, and from France and its defeats in the colonies of West Africa, and the United States and its retreat from Vietnam and the Southeast Asian region, and the Soviet Union, which lost its political and value balance, leading to its defeat in Afghanistan. And so, the end of the Israeli Zionist expansionist colonial project, as it was unable to benefit from the agreements, understandings, and common denominators that were reached and signed, especially with the Palestinian people through the gradual, multi-stage Oslo Agreement, and they killed the Oslo partners, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, and the bet on the interim agreement failed, leading to the prevention of the two-state solution on the land of Palestine. The Zionist left failed and lost its power to act after the Labor Party had 42 seats in the Knesset, only to fall to 4 seats in the November 2022 elections. The path of the Israeli right, allied with extremist Jewish religious parties, has worked and continues to work assiduously and cumulatively to abolish the manifestations of the Oslo Agreement with the aim of eliminating the two-state solution and maintaining the Israeli solution as dominant: one Zionist Israeli state from the sea to the river, coupled with diligent work to make the land of Palestine expelling its people and original owners. The power of the extremist Israeli right and its repeated, continuous crimes against Palestinians first, and then against Lebanese and Syrians, and its infringement on the security and sovereignty of many Arab countries, has not granted it security, stability, or legitimacy, and here is the legitimacy of force, previously supported by Europe and later by America, dissipating among European peoples and the streets of their capitals and parliaments, and strongly among the youth of the American Democratic Party, and to a lesser extent among the youth of the Republican Party. A clear indication of the change and awareness sweeping through European and American societies, not to mention the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.