Why We Should Be Concerned About Christian Zionism
This is a letter from a Palestinian Christian to the news
director and lead anchor of EWTN News, the news division of the Eternal
Word Television Network, a Catholic broadcast network with Zionist
leanings.
Dear Raymond Arroyo,
I was watching your world over segment last night on EWTN and I had
some concerns. My name is Mary. I’m a conservative Catholic from
Bethlehem, Palestine.
I know you didn’t think we existed – don’t worry ` you’re not the only one.
Besides, Israel propaganda does a great job making sure people think
Palestinians only consist of mean crazy Muslims fighting the innocent
virtuous God chosen people.
I couldn’t help but notice you were one of them, which struck me as
very odd considering you work for a religious channel not political, and
even if you yourself had your biases it should not be portrayed on your
show.
Let me clarify some things if I may, sir. I have three cousins that
are priests an uncle who is a Bishop look them up Bishop William
Shomali, Fr. Ibrahim Shomali and Fr. Issa Shomali.
My mother lived in Rome for ten years, she almost got ordained to become a nun.
Yes we are pretty conservative and we are proud of our faith.
Growing up in occupied Palestine just made our faith even stronger.
Watching on a daily basis Israeli jeeps with huge rifles sticking
out from the back of the jeep threatening to shoot us at any moment just
because we happened to live on the wrong side of town.
On the way to my St Joseph all-girls Catholic school I saw them making dirty comments, staring me in the face, mocking me.
I saw them shoot little children because they threw rocks at them, and sometimes for absolutely no reason.
In my peaceful town of Beit Sahour, mostly Christians, the first boy to get killed by Israelis was 16 years old.
He was walking home from the store when Israeli soldiers dropped a
huge rock on his head from the top of a building and watched him crawl
home bleeding until he died at the front steps of his home. He was
Christian, he did nothing to them.
Yet you don’t feel any sympathy for him. The second boy was at home in the kitchen watching his mom making fries.
An Israeli settler — you know, those guys who built a home illegally
on Palestinian land and are armed — shot him through the window and
killed him in front of his mom.
His name was Salam, it means peace. He was a Christian, not involved
in anything. Yet you wouldn’t feel any sympathy for him because he’s
not Jewish.
I can go on and on and on about how Israel was created, the wars
literally kicking people out of their homes and moving in them, the
massacres.
The times when they would put the whole town on house arrest, which
means we can’t leave the home or look out the window. It would take
weeks sometimes.
We are Christians and yet you wouldn’t feel any sympathy for us.
When they would set us free they would shout in the microphone in their
jeeps “home arrest is off you dogs and cows and donkeys”. And yet it’s
all justified.
One time a Christian nurse from my home town took home a young boy
who was wounded by Israeli soldiers. He was involved in a protest
against occupation and must have thrown a rock at one of the jeeps (oh
the horror!)
The soldiers went to her home, and arrested and imprisoned her for years for treating a wounded boy; how dare she!!
And when the town had many protests to free her they released her to
Jordan and she was never allowed back to her home. And yet we are the
terrorists and you have no sympathy for us.
My ancestors come from that land back in the days when people lived in caves even.
What if we are the original Christians that followed Jesus 2000
years ago — wouldn’t we have the same right to live there in dignity and
yet we have none.
And you don’t care. We will continue to carry the cross proudly on
our shoulder and suffer, we will continue to pray for our enemy and for
peace.
We will not hate, we will only tell the truth. This is what our
Bible teaches; you should try doing the same. Peace be with you my
friend.
Love, Mary Alshomaly from the Holy Land of Jesus
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