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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — A lifelong and decorated member of the Israel Defense Forces told the Daily Signal that Western media has fabricated lies about the persecution of Christians in southern Lebanon and Israel.
“They are speaking for me without asking for my permission,” Shadi Khalloul said. “The Qatari propagandists, like Al Jazeera, Tucker Carlson, and CNN, continue to push the lie that Israel is persecuting Christians and Muslims, despite having Christian and Muslim communities thriving in Israel.”
The major then credited the Israeli government for freely supporting the different ethnic communities in Israel, such as the Druze, Shiite Muslims, and Aramaic Catholic Christians, who face intense enemy persecution.
“If it weren’t for Israel, we would not be here,” the major, himself part of the Catholic Aramaic community, said about the minority.
Khalloul pointed out that the more than three million Muslim citizens of Israel also continue to live freely, in what the Western media and American politicians like Rep. Ilhan Omar, D‑Minn., consider to be an “apartheid state.”
The lie that Christians are being “ethnically cleansed” and “driven out of their homes” only “serves the radicals who want to execute Israel, because the goal of the radicals, such as Qatar, is to divide and fracture the Judeo‑Christian alliance and fracture Israel’s credibility further,” Khalloul added.
“Anti‑Israel and anti‑Jewish hatred from Qatar, the Islamic Brotherhood, Iran, and its proxies exists to weaken the Christian support of Israel,” he said.
To further prove his point, Khalloul explained how Israel, a country significantly rich in culture, history, and religion, shares a common heritage among different groups of faith, adding that there is no point in there being any infighting between the different religious communities in the region.
Israel, to many, is known as the Holy Land, due to it being the birthplace of Jesus Christ, and—as told in the Hebrew scriptures or Old Testament—the God-given home of the Israelites (the Jewish people).
“The Jews descended from us, and we then descended from them. We have the same origin, and there is a shared heritage among us,” the community advocate continued. “Christianity developed here.”
Christianity, as noted by the major, not only developed in Israel but also thrived. According to the major, the community he is from, the Aramaic, speaks the language first spoken by Jesus Christ: Aramaic.
Before Israel was officially recognized as a Jewish state, the land was also conquered by the Roman Empire, as well as the Islamic world.
After the Islamic conquest of Israel, Christianity in the region declined from 50% to about 5%.
“And it wasn’t because of Israeli Jews, despite what Tucker Carlson has to say.”
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