A friend sent me this 90-second video this morning. The narrator cannot understand how American Christians can support Israel against Armenian Christians in Jerusalem. At one point, the gentleman says, “American Christians have zero honor.”
What the American Christians he is talking about have may not be “zero honor,” but it is something that transforms what honor they do have into something dangerous, something thirsting for an Armageddon that they will misunderstand and during which they will find themselves on the wrong side. It’s the heresy known as Christian Zionism. The mind infected with that heresy will irrationally justify all manner of atrocity by simply putting white hats on the Zionists and black hats on whoever constitutes an enemy of the Zionists — even the actual victims of unjust Zionist aggression. If the victims don’t get a black hat — in this case, Armenian Christians whose roots in Jerusalem go back over a millennium — their suffering will get a shrug, with the Christian Zionist mumbling something about it’s too bad they were in the way and they are probably on the wrong side anyway because they are too sympathetic with the Palestinians.
Below the video are several links to news stories on the same subject.
Let us not forget that Armenia is the first Christian nation, whose conversion antedates the Council of Nicaea.
- On Violence and Racism in the Armenian Quarter: A Call for Respect and Equality — Armenian Weekly
- In Jerusalem’s contested Old City, shrinking Armenian community fears displacement after land deal — AP
- ‘We won’t leave’: Armenians in Jerusalem push back against armed settlers — Al Jazeera
- Who is harassing the “long-suffering nation” in Jerusalem? – Israeli experts on Armenian provocations — Aze Media
- Israel settlers attack Armenian restaurant in Jerusalem — Middle East Monitor
- The Cracks in Israel’s Toxic Relations with Armenia — Armenian Mirror Spectator
This image was taken as part of the Elef Millim project trip to the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, which was held on Friday, 23rd March 2012. Photo by Lantuszka, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
