Most dangerous and disturbing were Sarah Mullally’s words:
Christian hope as an act of resistance. She said: “And your faithful, hopeful resistance is also visible as fathers and mothers navigate the web of checkpoints daily to provide an income for their family, or to get their children to school to provide for their future, or as you gather to break bread together week by week in this church.
Mullally’s careless use of the word “resistance” is nothing short of appalling. The Palestinian “resistance” is rooted in opposition to Zionism. It is specifically opposed to the existence of the Jewish state of Israel as documented in the Palestinian National Charter. The goal of the “resistance” is repeated in the emblematic chant: “From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free.” This is a call to obliterate Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. It began on the day of Israel’s founding when Israel was attacked by surrounding Arab nations. A repeat happened in 1967 in 1973. The jihadist drive to obliterate the Jewish state has never ended. It has only become more sophisticated over the years in its use of propaganda.
After October 7, the globalize the intifada movement gained traction, while Hamas (a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot) became popularized. Iran was a key supporter of Hamas despite the Iranian regime being Shia while Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood are Sunni in origin. Hamas was established in December 1987 at the start of the First Intifada; it was the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, and is key to the Palestinian claim of constituting a “resistance.” Its very name, HAMAS, is an acronym for Ḥarakat al-Muqāwama al-Islāmiyya, the Islamic Resistance Movement.
Documented history proves what the Palestinian “resistance” is about, long before the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state, when Palestinians opposed Jewish immigration to the land of their heritage. The influence of Muslim Brotherhood into the region was already spreading. The Arab Revolt lead by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, his collaboration with Hitler and the Third Reich, all to stop Jewish immigration predates Israel’s existence and the Zionism to sustain the Jewish state.
This information is widely available, so what is Mullally’s agenda?
October 7 and the continued quest by Iran and its host of proxies to destroy Israel under the banner of “resistance” has put Israel in an impossible position, other than to lay down its weapons and accept annihilation. The widespread tolerance of Archbishop Sarah Mullally’s insensitive words indicates the powerful extent of propaganda, and how it is accepted as truth. It also explains why antisemitism is on the rise. Far too many people have bought into the “genocide” claim against Israel, as well as the Palestinian “oppression” theme. This frames Jews and Zionists as supporting human rights abuse while it exonerates the Palestinian jihad against Israel and their deadly use of human shields.
“I will use my role as Archbishop to seek the peace you desire and the freedom you deserve” sounds like an ominous threat, given the truth about the jihad and its roots in the Palestinian “resistance.” Mullally shamefully levies this charge under the Christian umbrella.
“Archbishop Sarah’s sermon in Birzeit, Palestine,” Archbishop of Canterbury, June 21, 2026:
Archbishop Sarah was making the first visit of an Archbishop of Canterbury to St Peter’s Anglican Church in the Palestinian Christian town of Birzeit. She introduced her sermon by thanking the rector, Father Fadi Diab, and the congregation for their hospitality, recognising too the costliness of life for them and their families in the occupied West Bank.
She told the congregation she would use her role as Archbishop to seek “the peace you desire and the freedom you deserve”.
The Holy Eucharist at St Peter’s this morning was presided over by the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Revd Dr Hosam Naoum, who is accompanying the Archbishop on her pilgrimage through the Holy Land.
In her sermon, Archbishop Sarah spoke about living faithfully in times of fear, trusting in the promises of Christ, and Christian hope as an act of resistance.
She said: “And your faithful, hopeful resistance is also visible as fathers and mothers navigate the web of checkpoints daily to provide an income for their family, or to get their children to school to provide for their future, or as you gather to break bread together week by week in this church. All these acts of faithful resistance point to our hope in Jesus Christ and reflect your ongoing struggle for freedom and dignity.”
Archbishop Sarah’s introduction
I am grateful for your hospitality today. It is a privilege to spend time in solidarity with you and learn about your lives here in Birzeit.
It is an honour to spend time with Archbishop Hosam this week, to meet Father Fadi and clergy from the surrounding area, to gather with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, to pray and worship, and to learn about the life of the Church in this place.
I am aware that I have certain freedoms that many of you do not enjoy, being able to cross borders and checkpoints, spending time in neighbouring communities, and going to Jerusalem. I am deeply humbled by this opportunity to join you in prayer and fellowship.
I recognise the costliness of life for you and your families, and the costliness of following Jesus here in this land, which was our Saviour’s home and is your home.
Thank you for the openness with which you have welcomed me. I will not forget what I have seen and what I have heard. I could not forget it. I will carry these encounters with me as I return home. I will use my role as Archbishop to seek the peace you desire and the freedom you deserve….
Istanbul_Chick says
White, liberal women are the foremost threat to the life, liberty and happiness of Western Nations and Western Peoples.
Until we can get them sorted out, women need to lose the vote, not allowed anywhere near education, politics, or religious authority.
M says
I would not say so personally. I am shy to give specific information, but we are pretty conservative at our church which I have been attending since childhood.
But I have noticed a transformation regarding this specific topic of Palestine/Israel. What concerns some of us is that the intense focus on the plight of the Gazans and Palestinians has radically absorbed all of the attention from the rest of the worlds plight at our church.
I absolutely sympathize with any Palestinians who are suffering at the moment in the holy land, but when you contemplate on the world as a whole, you can not help but to think about the so many other groups world wide who are also suffering and dying in much greater numbers…. But we do not hear about them any longer. When I was younger, i absolutely remember discussion about the Darfur genocide for example. But as of today, there is so much suffering even there, and also for Christians in the rest of the world, and I simply do not hear it brought up any longer.
Maybe I am growing cold to the Palestinian plight, but it is becoming tiring to hear only about this one single group of people, even though the conflict has already come to a close. Shouldn’t we move the focus elsewhere and spread it around?
I dare say, there is something at play that is above the heads of the laywoman. Again, I hope for the best for all groups of people, including Palestinians.
Istanbul_Chick says
Definitely not a mohammadan.
I am very much an American woman as Graven can tell you.
However, I will die on the hill that liberal women are an existential threat to the West.
They have infiltrated and destroyed religion, education, and government. They birth and raise the milquetoast “males” that are giving up the West to the mohammadan and globalist hordes.
Not allowing them to vote is my knee jerk reaction solution. I don’t want to give up my vote, but until we get liberal harridans under control, I don’t see a solution. Perhaps you have one and I am open to any and all that put shackles and muzzles on toxic liberal women.
Finally, I will admit, I am a misogynist. Nothing internalized about it. I’ve observed for more than half a century TOXIC WOMEN destroying people I love (my baby brother is being buried next week after being killed slowly by three toxic females), creating toxic work environments, murdering their children and our gynocentric culture giving them the “vag pass.”
Furthermore, I’ve never been called a misandrist for suggesting taking the vote away from leftist males. But for some reason I’m called a misogynist even by the alleged right for suggesting the same solution for TOXIC FEMALES.
I don’t hate women. I hate toxic women and liberal women are extremely toxic and I will die before I let one guide my religious life, educate me, or vote for one.
Istanbul_Chick says
White, liberal women in Denver have started a petition demanding that a priest be removed for being too dogmatic.
This priest, who I suspect is very much a liberal himself (he served as a priest in our small corner of Colorado), but he tirelessly kept politics (and liberals are an infestation in Colorado) out of church life. He is a faithful shepherd battling LIBERAL WHITE WOMEN who want to use the pulpit, the school, and all church functions for their hate Trump and pro sexual degenerate orgies.
Imagine parishioners demanding a priest be less religiously dogmatic!
As for the palis, I lost all empathy for them many years ago after watching a pallywood video in which one of them, allegedly “murdered” by the Israelis, fall out of his coffin and climb right back in.
M says
Istanbul Chick,
I apologize, I have mistakenly identified you as another frequent poster. I absolutely understand where your frustration is coming from, I have personally witnessed a radical transformation of almost all of our nearby churches. I believe I have witnessed the evolving factors of what has lead up to what we both see today.
The congregation over time has become much more educated over time, and this is especially true for the women. Also, they have now become wealthy donors themselves, and they are coming back to the church with a new world view which they have absorbed from their elite Universities. This by reason of logic has lead to women and liberal families taking a more powerful and aggressive role in shaping their local churches’ governing philosophy. For example, certain demands will be made of the priest, or these women do eventually acquire the power to simply go over the head of this given priest and demand policies be changed. Now compound that one powerful liberal woman with many and then think about what the result would come to be.
I am absolutely a witness to this myself. And you are also correct that this has a strong correlation with the Palestine and Israel conflict. It goes without saying around here, that the powerful congregants are very supportive of the pro-Palestine movement, and they are thus aggressively opposed to the State of Israel. People who are more pro-Israel and also Catholic, they are very quiet and afraid right now because they fear coming across as supporting the oppressor. This was not the case three years ago before the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants.
I have become very uncomfortable with this present situation, I feel the ever growing constant pressure at our church. I am very supportive of the Palestinian civilians myself but I feel more pressure coming down upon us about this situation weekly.
In the grand scheme of things, there are also other peoples suffering world wide. But what I find most alarming, these Palestinian supporters have now created a hostile atmosphere towards discussion of persecuted Christians. They do not want Nigeria brought up for example, people become uncomfortable because it is a “right wing talking point. These past few months I have become convinced that these ideas may be coming from elsewhere and being imported into our churches. I do not know what is happening around here. I pray this ends and this victimhood dictatorship leaves our churches, supporting Palestinian citizens is no longer enough. I am not ready to call Israel a fascist State or expound such radical statements. I am afraid of people I previously knew, that they would heartlessly put this kind of pressure on myself and the rest of the congregation. This is not Christianity.
You are witnessing a similar situation in your area I see. And others I have spoken with, also are witnessing verbal conflict within their churches over Palestine and Israel. The priests that are coming in are not conservative any longer.
gravenimage says
Yeah–let’s strip women of the vote–and an educaton, and any religious freedom. That’ll teach those Muslims! Or maybe not…
The idea that only women are dhimmi fools is completely false–as anyone reading here for more than a couple of days should be well aware.
M says
Graven Image,
This may be that “Bob” character once again. He fails to realize that by adopting this angry approach of not permitting women to vote, he is in actuality adopting the same misogynistic ideology he so despises in the rest of his anti-Islamic commentary.
I have never in my life heard a woman request that her vote be taken away “Istanbul Chick”…. Not even of a Muslim woman.
gravenimage says
M, Istanbul Chick is a long time poster here, and one I usually agree with–but not in this case. But I don’t think that she has anyting to do with Bob.
dumbledoresarmy says
And the problem is this.. that taking away the vote from women would take away the vote from… the NON-indoctrinated women like MANY who read and post here, from Australia, from the USA, from the UK … women who OPPOSE the jihad. Who are Islamo-aware. Given the power of the Islamic bloc vote across the western world, any politician or party that is prepared to step up and oppose Islamisation, needs all the votes it can get! Every single vote against Islamisation matters. Every single vote. Your vote, in the USA. Mine, in Australia!
gravenimage says
Agreed, DDA!
somehistory says
She has broken one of Christ’s most easily read and understood commandments. Anyone who wants to please Jesus should avoid listening to her.
“New International Version
“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
New Living Translation
“Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters.”
Jesus didn’t put women down, but honored them. However, He did not make any women Apostles.
ploome says
Archbishop Sarah, another example of the depth of understanding, profound intelligence, wisdom and brotherly love
of religious leaders
adding fuel to the fire
hope her God forgives her, for she knows not what she is doing
(apostle=derived from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος, literally “one who is sent off” )
Bexarkat says
The English have never been fond of their Jews. The Chuch of England’s influence there and trhe Anglican influence here has changed little in the 400 or so years of America, either as a colony or a nation. Does this person understand the persecution of Christians by Moslems in the Middle east and Africa? I would think her time would be better spent trying to protect her flock in central Africa.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, once England flipped from Catholic to Protestant, they did become more tolerant of Jews. It’s Catholics they had a problem w/
If only they could have the same problems w/ muslims/islam
ploome says
What behaviors is to “tolerate” from Jews?
Jews belief that they are entitled to life ?
To live quietly and safely among the people of the world?
what?
gravenimage says
Jewish Britons are British. They do not ‘belong’ to the English. I have Jewish inlaws in England–and they are English.
Taffy says
As King Henry II spoke: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?””
ploome says
they all come from an a priori, unconscious and/or subconscious historical stereotype of Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Jews
fascinating article
and
Julius, Anthony. Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England. Oxford, Oxford UP, 2010. pp. 584-586.
(Anthony Robert Julius (born 16 July 1956) is a British solicitor advocate known for being Diana, Princess of Wales’ divorce lawyer[1] and for representing Deborah Lipstadt.[2] He is the deputy chairman at the law firm Mishcon de Reya[1] and honorary solicitor to the Foundation for Jewish Heritage.
He holds the chair in Law and Arts in the Faculty of Laws at University College London[3] and teaches courses on Shakespeare, Kant, and William Empson. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Haifa.[4], and now attorney representing Prince William of Wales. )
………this toxic obsession of some towards Jews is mental illness
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, if only Britain now had King Henry II rather than King Charles III. Since the king is the official head of the Church of England, it’s no surprise that the Archbishop of Canterbury is someone who mirrors his views
gravenimage says
Murdering Thomas Beckett was not actually a good thing.
Edmund Carey says
I wonder if anyone has reflected that appointing a female Archbishop of Canterbury may not have been such a good idea after all? St. Paul: “Let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law. And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.” 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 American Standard Version.
This particular female poltroon might like to read a bit of the history of how the modern state of Israel was created, and of how the West Bank came to be occupied by it in the first place. The only thing the Palestinians need to “resist” is their own attachment to the dream of eradicating their neighbour and taking all his territory for themselves.
Perhaps she will notice that the Palestinians have been offered a country on five different occasions and have said “go to hell” (if the good archbishop will pardon the reference) every time. Look into that a bit. Start with “The War of Return” by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf.
Try getting a few facts into your head, Your Grace.
ploome says
exactly, and
as Robert Spencer writes in a previous article..
Lebanese politician: Our struggle with Israel ‘is not a war over borders’
JUN 22, 2026 8:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER
……this is a religious war, jihad,
and so many non muslims in the west, are also fighting this jihad to help advance islam-wether they know it or not.
ploome says
and to better understand the British attitude towards Israel, remember that the UK and Pakistan were the ONLY two countries that recognized Jordans’ annexation of Judea and Samaria.
Not one other muslim/arab country or any other country, for that matter
gravenimage says
So–what did you like about dhimmi tools Justin Welby and Rowan Williams? I’ll wait…
owensgate says
I doubt this “Bishop” knows how the “Palestinians” got their name, or who they really were!
tgusa says
The population of Canterbury in 2025 is estimated at approximately 162,776 residents. Just how much global influence does she think her role as Archbishop of Canterbury accords her? Middle aged white leftist women are so full of themselves that I dont know whether to barf or laugh.
Beans🫘 says
Really, this article says something bigger without saying it. Europeans, Christians, westerners are mostly pro Palestine, and anti Israel. This is just another instance of it.
A great example would be all European nations recognizing Palestine, at the behest of their or Palestine populations.
Another example is the Catholic Church, it is being unreasonable and aggressive towards Israel, a fellow western nation, and the church is being overly tolerant and praising Iran and Islam. The Catholic church loves Islam A LOT. They kiss their butt every time. “Do you need me to drop to my knees sir? Yes sir, kiss your Muslim butt sir?”
How many statements of praise towards Islam have the last two popes made? It’s pretty crazy. What do they love about Muslims so much, someone help me be enlightened. And the church loves themself some Islamic migrant men. I think these are the highest caste for them, over their own congregation even. Muslim migrant rapist criminal, is above Jesus in Catholicism.
tgusa says
When was the last time European nations got something right? Also, I have never been a fan of the Catholic church although I hold no animosity towards individual Catholics.
In the USA.
The vast majority of Republicans, 64%, said they sided more with Israelis, while just 7% sided with Palestinians. Meanwhile, the reverse was true for Democrats, with 60% expressing more sympathy for Palestinians, and 12% showing more sympathy for Israelis. Twenty-nine percent of both groups offered no opinion. Independents were more split, with 38% siding with Israelis and 30% siding with Palestinians. Thirty-one percent had no opinion.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article308467310.html#storylink=cpy
The good thing we Americans can say is, we are not Europeans!
Beans🫘 says
Tgusa
That poll is wildly outdated. Things have changed dramatically in public perception and Israel is tanking in perception polls.
Idaho state house just held a vote to support Israel and denounce Hamas. 80 percent of REPUBLICANS voted against it.
My jaw dropped. Idaho?
gravenimage says
Chilling, Beans.
tgusa says
The Israel muslim problem has been going on all of my life with no end in sight. I have more important concerns right here at home and one of the most important concerns is the judicial insurrection going on. Did you know,
The number of injunctions federal judges issued on policies of presidents from the time of President Carter up through Biden.
Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, Biden = 63 injunctions total. Of that list, the least was Carter at 2 injunctions, the most was Biden at 14 injunctions.
Trump has over 240 injunctions in 5 years as president with 3 more years to go.
That is a serious concern much more concerning than the never ending quagmire that is the Israel muslim conflict. The middle East is taking up too much space in some Americans heads both in and out of government. I voted for Trump to fix America everything else must take a backseat.
“Idaho state house just held a vote to support Israel and denounce Hamas.”
Perhaps that is true but I cannot find any reference to it.
tgusa says
92 percent of injunctions were issued by democrat judges. Responding to Trump John Roberts said the U.S. doesn’t have “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” Roberts is full of shite. He must think all the American people are stupid.The troubling fact is most all of those holding law degrees have been vomited out on the American people by left wing law schools.
Beans🫘 says
Tgusa,
I agree with you Israel is not a central concern, I am not a staunch Israel supporter myself, and we have tons of more important things to be concerned about.
But I am not a believer in abandoning Israel for various reasons. One being, they are a democracy, and I believe they are decent people. I wouldn’t want to see them suffer. We need to help somehow.
I think we did what we did in Iran, it was also for ourselves to stop a nuclear Iran. And I have had my fill there. Give me the peace deal.
Israel is important to us in reasons that are not talked about. We need them to exist to polarize the region, give us leverage in the Suez. It is a reminder of the power and superiority if western civilization over Islamic pedophiles in the Middle East.
Israel is more than welcome to fight alone, but I would strongly advise against it.
tgusa says
Democrats think that if they just get rid of Trump everything will be fine. But that is not true, without Trump we still disagree on everything. For decades now we have disagreed on many things and over the years the gulf between us has only widened.
The Chinese phrase “May you live in interesting times” applies today. But that is considered a curse rather than a blessing. Unfortunately, we live in interesting times.
ploome says
regarding:
tgusa says
Jun 23, 2026 at 10:47 pm
The Israel muslim problem has been going on all of my life with no end in sight.
and
Beans🫘 says
Jun 24, 2026 at 12:05 am
Tgusa,
I agree with you Israel is not a central concern, I am not a staunch Israel supporter myself,
—————————————
The “Israel muslim problem” is a muslim imperative and explicitly described in their koran.
And just as muslims slaughter Christians and HIndus (do you consider that an “christian muslim problem? or an Indian Muslim problem?)
This is jihad, and you are next, except in Africa, a vulnerable and emerging world , are being targeted by jihad now.
Israel is the tip of the spear, fighting jihad-first the Saturday people,
and then the Sunday people…….you are next.
as much as you may hate it…Israel should concern you
Andrew Bostom
https://myislam.dk/articles/en/bostom%20antisemitism-in-the-quran-part-1.php
The Qur’anic depiction of the Jews—their traits as thus characterized being deemed both infallible and timeless—highlights, in verse 2:61 (repeated in verse 3:112), the centrality of the Jews “abasement and humiliation”, and being “laden with God’s anger,” as elaborated in the corpus of Muslim exegetic literature on Qur’an 2:61, including the hadith and Qur’anic commentaries. The terrifying rage decreed upon the Jews forever is connected in the hadith and exegeses to Qur’an 1:7, where Muslims ask Allah to guide them rightly, not in the path of those who provoke and must bear His wrath.
This verse is in turn linked to Qur’anic verses 5:60, and 5:78, which describe the Jews transformation into apes and swine (5:60), having been “…cursed by the tongue of David, and Jesus, Mary’s son” (5:78).
Moreover, forcing Jews, in particular, to pay the Qur’anic poll tax “tribute,” (as per verse 9:29) “readily,” while “being brought low,” is consistent with their overall humiliation and abasement in accord with Qur’an 2:61, and its directly related verses.-”
Using the land as the reason for conflict with Jews is a way muslims can rationalize and convince the world of their cause.
describing the islamic conflict and hatred for Jews by their religious basis,
would not connect with western and non muslim peoples.
tgusa says
“This is jihad, and you are next.”
I know ploome. That is exactly why I voted for Trump to fix America while everything else must take a backseat, for now.
“Israel is the tip of the spear”
Yes. Out there on there own they seem to be doing OK so lets fix America and then consider broader options. Right here at home we have to deal with the democrat jihad party first. Israel has their jihadist problems we have ours.
tgusa says
The Israeli fighting spirit reminds me of the American fighting spirit. We should be proud of them for that.
gravenimage says
tgusa, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the head of the Church of England–also called Episcopalians and Anglicans–not just the population of Canturbury (not all of whom are C of E, in any case). This is like assuming that no one has heard of the Pope outside of Rome.
There are approximately 85 to 110 million Anglicans world wide–the third largest Christian denomination world wide after Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.
tgusa says
I’m still not feeling her influence. The problem she faces is she is a white female Westerner and a lot of people have developed a healthy and somewhat deserved wariness of that.
gravenimage says
No doubt she is a moron–but I don’t see how her views are that different from those of the last several Archbishops of Canterbury.
Wellington says
Her face alone pretty much says it all.
gravenimage says
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Judea and Samaria, promises to help Palestinians get ‘the freedom you deserve’
……………………………………………………
Freedom–from whom? Israel is not in control of the Palestinian territoties, and left Gaza over 20 years ago.
What this fool means is that they have to be “free” of Israelis living in freedom–or living at all…
bill says
Beyond stupid, the only reason there are check points is because so many so called palestinians are and have been since 1948 bent on murdering Jewish people. How many Isralies hav been murdered in suicide bombings, stabbings and car rammings etc?
Kepha says
I have a number of observations.
First of all, @Istanbul Chick, with all due respect, Im not sure we need to repeal the 19th Amendment. There are sober and sane women out there, even if Uncle Kepha has no use for the feminist movement in general beyond equal pay for equal work.
As for the Archbishopette of Canterbury, a lot of us confessional Protestants have no use for women’s ordination at all. The Apostle Paul, the same man who enjoined men to love their wives as Christ loved the church (if you don’t understand how far Christ’s love for the church went, you are no Christian), also forbade the ecclesiastical teaching/ruing functions to women. We ignore such teaching to our own peril.
Re Zionism, I do not believe the Dispensational teaching that focuses on the land of Israel and ethnic Israel. The Chosen People of God are gathered about the Messiah Jesus, not in a piece of Middle Eastern land. Further, I have lukewarm feelings about Zionism. A lot was predicated on Ignaz Goldziher’s nonsense about Islamic “tolerance” (he posed as a convert), which misled many into foolish rhetoric about Arab “brothers”. Further, anyone with half a brain could foresee conflict with the Arab inhabitants of ‘Eretz Yisroel. But, this being said, uprooting another millions for some astract notion of “social justice” would be a far grater crime, and I will always stand by the assertion that the time is long past due for the Arab states to naturalize the descendants of the Palestinian refugees.
Further, I admit to being borhtered by Christian voices that seem to think it’s now OK to despise the Jews. Give no offence to Jew, Greek, or the Church of God, said Paul at the end of First Corinthians 10. But, there seems to be a tribe that, steeped in Dispensationalist doctrine, visits Israel, and, instead of seeing a place full of people with eyes on the skies (other than those manning the local AF and Iron Dome) busily collecting stones for a Third Temple, fina an ordinary, struggling small nation. Such christian tourists come home, rediscover Reformed Covenantal theology or the Lutheran Confessions, and proceed to blame the JOOOOOOZ for the Dispensationalist deception, forgetting that the likes of J.N. Darby and C. I. Scofield hand’t a drop of Jewish DNA in them.
The Archbishopette is, indeed, an insult to the Christian faith. Not only is her office an affront to New Testament teaching, but her stance on the Palestine issue is just more fuel on the fire of poisonous hatreeds. The 20th century alone murdered more people in the names of humanity, social justice, and scientific progress than 13 centuries between the Emperor Theodosius and the Salem Witch Trials killed by abusing the name of Christ. The Archepiscopette is one more modernized, sub-Christian voice that calls on the people of God to bow before the modern idols rather than exposing and criticizing them.
OLD GUY says
You can tell how fair left she is by just looking at her.
Major Tom says
Leadership is defined by the leader! Nothing to see here!
Stacy says
Who was first? Surely not the Arabs
ould not be Arabs, they for the most part arrived in during and after the Islamic conquest after the death of Mohammad, this was about 1,500 years ago. The Hebrews, or the ancestors of the modern day Jews, they show a continuous record of having lived in the area for over 4,000 years.
In regards to the current situation, you have two people that migrated to the land, the claim that the “Palestinians” were there for thousands of years, that they were based on two extinct people is based on fiction, as for historical proof of this claim, you get called names, attacked, face frantic attempts to change the conversation, but NEVER do you get a answer, the simple fact is prior to 1900 there is not one Islamic, Ottoman or Western based historical reference to a sub group of Arabs with their own distinct culture known as Palestinians, this is a modern construct, invented by Arafat.
Now before people yell and say this is baseless, let’s look at the supporting facts, something I can do. You first have claims the Palestinians are the descendants of the ancient Philistines, the problem with this narrative, is they were completely wiped out during the Babylonian conquest (they were already weakened by the Hebrew kingdoms, the Egyptian and Assyrian attacks on their cities), there is no written or archaeological evidence after this found that shows they survived in any capacity. The other Claim is the Canaanites, that would equally be a issue, they too were extinct but that would have been before even the Philistines, today’s modern archaeologist actually feel the ancient Hebrews came from the ancient Canaanites, this is due to the likeness of all pottery finds, the fact that the one group had exactly the same as the other, the only difference is the lack of Canaanite gods found in these remains, but after 700 BCE, there is no record of any Canaanite to be found.
But let’s continue this, the problem comes with records, one may ask, what about census, they would have shown the demographics, here is the largest problem, there is none from the Ottoman Empire prior to 1800, they had a fatwa or a religious edict against taking one, so how today’s experts come up with a figure is they backwards project with the current claim by the Arabs of being there, what the population with natural growth lines would have been. But there is a census, it was done by the same group that in the middle ages up to 1800’s took all the census in Europe, so they were very well acquainted with how to conduct them, and that would be the Jesuits, in 1697 with permission from the Ottomans, and with Ottoman oversight they took a census of the land, here is the actual figures, you can still access this publication today:
“Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata” – a detailed geographical survey of Palestine in 1696 written in Latin by Adriaan Reland published by Willem Broedelet, Utrecht, in 1714.
Residents of the REGION mainly concentrated in cities: Jerusalem, Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza.
In most cities, the majority of residents are Christians, Jews and others, very few Muslims who generally are Bedouin, who came to serve as Seasonal workers in agriculture or building.
Nablus: 120 Muslims, 70 Samaritans
Nazareth: 700 people – all Christians
Umm al-Fahm: 50 people-10 families, ALL Christian
Gaza: 550 people- 300 Jews,250 Christian(Jews engaged in agriculture Christians deal with the trading and transporting the products)
Tiberius: 300 residents, all Jews.
Safed: about 200 inhabitants, all Jews
Jerusalem: 5000 people, most of them (3,500) Jews, the rest- Christian (1000), Muslim (500)
Note* (no Muslims in Gaza)!
This is further backed up by documented eye witness accounts from people who visited the area during this same time period:
“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel, Galilea); not for thirty miles in either direction… One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee… Nazareth is forlorn… Jericho lies a moldering ruin… Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation… untenanted by any living creature.
– Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”, 1867 –
“There are many proofs, such as ancient ruins, broken aqueducts, and remains of old roads, which show that it has not always been so desolate as it seems now. In the portion of the plain between Mount Carmel and Jaffa one sees but rarely a village or other sights of human life. There some rude mills here which are turned by the stream. A ride of half an hour more brought us to the ruins …”
– B. W. Johnson, in “Young Folks in Bible Lands”: Chapter IV, 1892 –
“The land in Palestine is lacking in people to till its fertile soil”.
– British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, mid-1700s –
“Palestine is a ruined and desolate land”
– Count Constantine François Volney, XVIII century French author and historian –
“The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population”.
– James Finn, British Consul in 1857 –
In 1844, William Thackeray writes about the road from Jaffa to Jerusalem: “Now the district is quite deserted, and you ride among what seem to be so many petrified waterfalls. We saw no animals moving among the stony brakes; scarcely even a dozen little birds in the whole course of the ride.”
“In Judea it is hardly an exaggeration to say that for miles and miles there was no appearance of life or habitation.”
-Penrhyn Stanley, British cartographer, 1881-
In 1866, W.M. Thomson writes: “How melancholy is this utter desolation. Not a house, not a trace of inhabitants, not even shepherds, to relieve the dull monotony … Much of the country through which we have been rambling for a week appears never to have been inhabited, or even cultivated; and there are other parts, you say, still more barren.”
“Outside the city of Jerusalem, we saw no living object, heard no living sound … a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, in the highways, in the country.”
-Alphonse de Lamartine, travel book, 1835-
In 1874, Reverend Samuel Manning wrote: “But where were the inhabitants? This fertile plain, which might support an immense population, is almost a solitude…. Day by day we were to learn afresh the lesson now forced upon us, that the denunciations of ancient prophecy have been fulfilled to the very letter — “the land is left void and desolate and without inhabitants.” (Jeremiah, ch.44 v.22)
So where did the Arabs then come from? The British while investigating the area for possible future strategic purposes in the early 1900’s investigated this, this was their findings when they Naval Royal inquiry was reported back to the government:
“The area was under populated and remained economically stagnant until the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers in the 1880’s, who came to rebuild the Jewish land. The country had remained “The Holy Land” in the religious and historic consciousness of mankind, which associated it with the Bible and the history of the Jewish people. Jewish development of the country also attracted large numbers of other immigrants – both Jewish and Arab.
– The report of the British Royal Commission, 1913 –
People who claim the Arabs were in the land first fail to acknowledge the facts, the Arab migration to the land during the 1920’s and 1930’s has been well documented. In fact, the British Hope-Simpson Commission addressed this issue in its recommendation of 1930.
The British governor of the Sinai (1922-1936) reported in the Palestine Royal Commission Report that illegal immigration to Palestine was not only occurring from Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria.
In 1939, British PM, Winston Churchill, stated ” the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population.”
In 1934, the Governor of the Syrian district of Hauran admitted that within just a few months, more than 30,000 Arabs left Hauran for Palestine.
The simple fact is the Arabs came as economic migrants, then set about a narrative that they were there all along, the problem with this claim is the total lack of evidence to back up this claim, ask them for proof, you get nothing, there is not even one archaeological find that supports this narrative, could be why the Gaza Museum of Palestinian heritage shows a time from what they claim is the occupation on, but has no artifacts that support their claim
ploome says
excellent comment
did you compile this information or is it published somewhereI can copy or send it to friends?
gravenimage says
+1
ploome says
Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 ed.
Population.—The inhabitants of Palestine are composed of a large number of elements, differing widely in ethnological affinities, language and religion. It may be interesting to mention, as an illustration of their heterogeneousness, that early in the 20th century a list of no less than fifty languages, spoken in Jerusalem as vernaculars, was there drawn up by a party of men whose various official positions enabled them to possess accurate information on the subject.[2] It is therefore no easy task to write concisely and at the same time with sufficient fullness on the ethnology of Palestine.
There are two classes into which the population of Palestine can be divided—the nomadic and the sedentary.
The former is especially characteristic of Eastern Palestine, though Western Palestine also contains its full share. The pure Arab origin of the Bedouins is recognized in common conversation in the country, the word “Arab” being almost restricted to denote these wanderers, and seldom applied to the dwellers in towns and villages.
It should be mentioned that there is another, entirely independent, nomad race, the despised Nowar, who correspond to the gipsies or tinkers of European countries. These people live under the poorest conditions, by doing smith’s work; they speak among themselves a Romani dialect, much contaminated with Arabic in its vocabulary.
The sedentary population of the country villages—the fellahin, or agriculturists—is, on the whole, comparatively unmixed; but traces of various intrusive strains assert themselves. It is by no means unreasonable to suppose that there is a fundamental Canaanite element in this population: the “hewers of wood and drawers of water” often remain undisturbed through successive occupations of a land; and there is a remarkable correspondence of type between many of the modern fellahin and skeletons of ancient inhabitants which have been recovered in the course of excavation. New elements no doubt came in under the Assyrian, Persian and Roman dominations, and in more recent times there has been much contamination. The spread of Islam introduced a very considerable Neo-Arabian infusion. Those from southern Arabia were known as the Yaman tribe, those from northern Arabia the Kais (Qais). These two divisions absorbed the previous peasant population, and still nominally exist; down to the middle of the 19th century they were a fruitful source of quarrels and of bloodshed.
The two great clans were further subdivided into families, but these minor divisions are also being gradually broken down. In the 19th century the short-lived Egyptian government introduced into the population an element from that country which still persists in the villages. These newcomers have not been completely assimilated with the villagers among whom they have found a home; the latter despise them, and discourage intermarriage.
Some of the larger villages—notably Bethlehem—which have always been leavened by Christianity, and with the development of industry have become comparatively prosperous, show tangible results of these happier circumstances in a higher standard of physique among the men and of personal appearance among the women.
It is not uncommon in popular writings to attribute this superiority to a crusader strain—a theory which no one can possibly countenance who knows what miserable degenerates the half-breed descendants of the crusaders rapidly became, as a result of their immoral life and their ignorance of the sanitary precautions necessary in a trying climate.
The population of the larger towns is of a much more complex nature. In each there is primarily a large Arab element, consisting for the greater part of members of important and wealthy families. Thus, in Jerusalem, much of the local influence is in the hands of the families of El-Khalidi, El-Husseini and one or two others, who derive their descent from the heroes of the early days of Islam.
The Turkish element is small, consisting exclusively of officials sent individually from Constantinople.
There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries, especially Armenia, Greece and Italy, principally engaged in trade. The extraordinary development of Jewish colonization has since 1870 effected a revolution in the balance of population in some parts of the country, notably in Jerusalem. There are few residents in the country from the more eastern parts of Asia—
if we except the Turkoman settlements in the Jaulan, a number of Persians, and a fairly large Afghan colony that since 1905 has established itself in Jaffa. The Mutāwileh (Motawila), who form the majority of the inhabitants of the villages north-west of Galilee, are probably long-settled immigrants from Persia.
Some tribes of Kurds live in tents and huts near Lake Huleh. If the inmates of the countless monastic establishments be excluded, comparatively few from northern or western Europe will remain: the German “Templar” colonies being perhaps the most important.
There must also be mentioned a Bosnian colony established at Caesarea Palestina, and the Circassian settlements placed in certain centres of Eastern Palestine by the Turkish government in order to keep a restraint on the Bedouin: the latter are also found in Galilee.
There was formerly a large Sudanese and Algerian element in the population of some of the large towns, but these have been much reduced in numbers since the beginning of the 20th century: the Algerians however still maintain themselves in parts of Galilee.
The most interesting of all the non-Arab communities in the country, however, is without doubt the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body, which has maintained an independent existence from the time when they were first settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the kingdom of Israel.
The total population of the country is roughly estimated at 650,000, but no authentic official census exists from which satisfactory information on this point is obtainable.
Some two-thirds of this number are Moslems, the rest Christians of various sects, and Jews. The largest town in Palestine is Jerusalem, estimated to contain a population of about 60,000. The other towns of above 10,000 inhabitants are Jaffa (45,000), Gaza (35,000), Safed (30,000), Nablus (25,000), Kerak (20,000), Hebron (18,500), Es-Salt (15,000), Acre (11,000), Nazareth (11,000).
The above remarks apply to the permanent population.
They would be incomplete without a passing word on the non-permanent elements which at certain seasons of the year are in the principal centres the most conspicuous. Especially in winter and early spring crowds of European and American tourists, Russian pilgrims and Bokharan devotees jostle one another in the streets in picturesque incongruity.
from UNRWA
WHO ARE PALESTINE REFUGEES?
Palestine refugees are defined as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict.”
UNRWA services are available to all those living in its area of operations who meet this definition, who are registered with the Agency and who need assistance. The descendants of Palestine refugee males, including adopted children, are also eligible for registration. When the Agency began operations in 1950, it was responding to the needs of about 750,000 Palestine refugees. Today, some 5.9 million Palestine refugees are eligible for UNRWA services.
Stacy says
She is a lesbian…. Which is against God. She is one of those we were warned about.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/False-Prophets
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are leading you into futility;
They speak a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/False-Prophets
somehistory says
Good things many have not followed, and others have no knowledge.
This woman is a false prophet….she does not speak for God, but for satan.
gravenimage says
Actually, Sarah Mullaly is married to Eamonn, an Irish-born IT and Enterprise Architect. The couple have two grown-up children, Liam and Grace. She is not gay.
somehistory says
A lot of homosexuals get married to heterosexuals as a cover….take for instance the creepy guy who married, had children, and then decided he’s a ‘woman’ which would *allow* him to be with another male. Referencing the former HHS sec.
Many in show business have had intimate relationships with the opposite gender so they could get jobs they might not have otherwise, due to their homosexuality.
Whether or not she’s homosexual, she’s not speaking for Christ as she pretends. She’s one of those “blind leading the blind.”
gravenimage says
Somehistory, I was *not* saying anything positive about the Archbishop–she is a dhimmi fool. But I have seen no indication–for good or ill–that she is gay.
somehistory says
My point was only that she could be married and still be homosexual….as many others have done.
I really don’t care one way or the other. God will Judge her for what she does, or does not do, as well as her claims to being *special* and serving Christ.
dumbledoresarmy says
She should be visiting Nigerian Anglican Christians in Nigeria, who (along with all other identifiable Christians of whatever tradition, and any other non-Muslims!) are facing a REAL genocide .. at the hands of.. allahu-akbaring Muslims.
She should be challenged to speak up for *them*.
Incidentally: there are a LOT of MALE priests and senior clergy in the Anglican communion who are just as foolish, just as dhimmified, as she is; it’s not really a gender thing, it’s probably more a ‘generational’ thing, if you were a particular age when passing through uni, and many who enter the clergy logically enough are people who did Arts-type degrees, you got indoctrinated and propagandised. There is a Dean of a major Cathedral in Australia, of a similar age to Sarah or even a bit older, who is a total Palestinianist… he hosted the inflammatory propaganda film “The Voice of Hind Rajab” at the Cathedral… and on his watch the rhetoric coming out of the diocesan paper is … more and more alarming, full of classic antisemitic tropes such as the claim that the Joooooz control the media, etc.
And yet there are others, also within the Anglican Communion, who are informed and sensible. They just don’t get as much media airtime.
gravenimage says
+1