Afrasianet - Even Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to the occupying power and an extremist Christian Zionist who is complicit to the core of Israel's racist and genocidal policies, has found no way out of swallowing the decision of the occupation authorities to prevent the Latin Patriarch of occupied Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzabala, and three other priests from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the usual special ceremony on Palm Sunday.
" An unfortunate transgression that is difficult to justify," Huckabee wrote in a post on the X platform, who had no difficulty in granting the occupation the right to extend the geography of "Greater Israel" across the Middle East and from the Nile River to the Euphrates River.
He was also the one who found no embarrassment, politically, morally, historically, or even mentally, in repeating that "there is no such thing as Palestinian," and that the state of Palestine could be established in Jordan, Sinai, or in Huckabee's move was not surprising given the widespread international reactions to the of the occupation authorities, the earliest example of which was the statement of the cardinal's office, considering the incident "a dangerous precedent and an understatement to the feelings of billions of people looking forward to Jerusalem around the world, this week."
The church explained that it had complied with all the instructions of the occupation police, and "dealt with them responsibly since the outbreak of the war, and complied with all restrictions: public gatherings were canceled, participation was banned, and arrangements were made to broadcast the celebrations on air to hundreds of millions of believers around the world."
Thus, the American ambassador had to follow the example of the occupation authorities and engage himself in the efforts to repair the damage, which began with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally, and prompted him to issue orders to allow the cardinal and his companions to enter the church without Restriction or condition.
While Netanyahu's office promised to draft a new agreement that would ensure that "Christian leaders" would be allowed to enter the church, it did not miss the opportunity to accuse Iran's missiles of causing restrictions on Christian holy sites, in order to preserve the security of the faithful and "not for any malicious intent whatsoever."
But the history of the relationship between the occupying power and the various Christian churches, not only in occupied Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth or elsewhere, but also in the rest of Palestine, records the most extreme examples of various forms of violation and recklessness The closest to recent memory is the incident of smashing the doors of St. John's Baptist Church and looting its contents, defacing the icon of the Virgin Mary, stealing precious pearls from the Virgin Mary's Crown in St. George's Church, storming the Greek Orthodox Church of Jacob's Well and slaughtering its president, Archimandrite Philemnos. Beyond, absurdities and abuse.
