Israeli foreign minister: Jesus wanted to alter the ' Jewishness ' of Israel and he was condemned to the most excruciating death
The Baltic Times -- Notorious for his bigotry and racist comments
against Israel's 2.2% Christian population and the head of Israel's
far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, Israel's belligerent foreign minister
Avigdor Lieberman attacked his country's 168,000 Christians calling them
'fifth column' and denounced the avid American Protestant missionaries
for seeking to convert Israel's dwindling Jewish population and
propagate Christianity. Addressing a joint press conference after the
meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart in Vilnius on Thursday,
Mr. Lieberman reiterated that the State of Israel shall remain a
democratic entity, though warning that the Israeli government will
vigilantly thwart any proselytizing of Jews by American missionaries
whose sympathies lie with terrorist Palestinian groups.
"To
those Christian so-called peace activists, I shall say their pernicious
actions of opposing the unquestionable nature of Israel's religious
identity, amount to complicity in crimes against innocent Israeli
citizens committed by fanatic Muslim organizations," said Israel's
Soviet-born Israeli official, adding, Jesus the Nazarite sought to
change the divine foundation of Judaism that ultimately doomed to
failure and thus and that brought upon him nothing but excruciating
death.
Israel during the past
decades diligently strived to assert itself as the guardian of Christian
sites in the disputed city of Jerusalem though the emergence of
extremist Jewish parties—namely Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu—party in
Israelis politics jeopardized Israel's claims as of being a religiously
tolerant regime.
Having been lambasted by human rights
organizations for his earlier inflammatory comments against Israel's 5%
Arab populations -- threatening to decapitate all Arab-Israeli citizens
who are not loyal to the Jewish State of Israel -- Lieberman's recent
remarks may harbinger Israel's yearning for war with its Arab neighbors.
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