IDF scales back Bethlehem night ops for Christmas

"The IDF began scaling back its operations in Bethlehem and the city's outlying areas on Sunday ahead of the expected arrival of more than 60,000 Christian pilgrims to the city in the next few days to participate in Christmas celebrations."

That's mighty Jewish of them. Actually, they don't want the Christians who are visiting from the West to see up close and personal how they murder their Palestinian Christian brethren and innocent Palestinian women and children. That could be bad for public relations and they need Christian Zionists ~ those useful idiots like John Hagee who claim that Israel is the "apple of God's eye."

Bethlehem's Walled Nativity

"At first glance, Tawfiq Salsaa's wooden nativity scene seems like the perfect gift from Bethlehem, Christ's birthplace. But a closer look shows a wall separating baby Jesus and Virgin Marry from the three wise men."