{"id":58180,"date":"2024-12-24T20:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58180"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:36:49","slug":"the-israels-prime-ministers-christmas-greetings-to-the-entire-christian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/24\/the-israels-prime-ministers-christmas-greetings-to-the-entire-christian-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The Israel's Prime Minister's Christmas greetings to the entire Christian community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Christians celebrate the coming into the world of Baby Jesus, and the Jewish community begins its Festival of Lights, Hanukkah.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/22\/the-words-of-pope-saint-john-paul-ii-to-the-jews-our-older-brothers\/\">The words of Pope Saint John Paul II to the Jews, our 'older brothers'<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/15\/anti-semitic-and-christian-beware-of-those-who-try-to-repeat-this-infamous-deception\/\">Anti-Semitic and Christian? Beware of those who try to repeat this infamous deception<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.il\/en\/pages\/spoke-christmas241224\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent this Christmas greeting to the Christian community<\/a> in his country and around the world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>My dear Christian friends<\/strong>, as you gather with your family and friends this Christmas, <strong>I wish the Christian community in Israel and around the world blessings for a Merry Christmas<\/strong> from the Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when Israel is fighting on seven fronts, <strong>we deeply appreciate the steadfast support of our Christian friends around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You've stood by our side<\/strong>, you've stood by our side resiliently, consistently, forcefully as Israel defends our civilization against barbarism. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The people of Israel are united in defending our nation<\/strong> against those bent on our destruction. <\/p>\n<p><strong>We seek peace with all those who wish peace with us<\/strong>, but we will do whatever is necessary to defend the one and only Jewish state, the repository and the source of our common heritage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel leads the world in fighting the forces of evil and tyranny<\/strong>, but our battle is not yet over.  With your support, and with God's help, I assure you, we shall prevail.<\/p>\n<p>From Jerusalem, city of peace, <strong>I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMy dear Christian friends, as you gather with your family and friends this Christmas, I wish the Christian community in Israel and around the world blessings for a Merry Christmas from the Holy Land. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b5YtGaCUug\">pic.twitter.com\/b5YtGaCUug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraeliPM\/status\/1871452598009520259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a Christian and a friend of Israel, I thank Netanyahu for these kind words,<\/strong> coming from the only country in the Middle East where followers of Christ enjoy full religious freedom to live their faith. In fact, <strong>while Christians are experiencing an exodus in other countries in the area<\/strong> (including Lebanon, where they were once the majority), <a href=\"https:\/\/revistatierrasanta.com\/crece-la-poblacion-cristiana-en-israel\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Israel the number of Christians is increasing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I take this opportunity <strong>to wish a happy Hanukkah to the entire Jewish community, our \"older brothers\"<\/strong> as Saint John Paul II called you. In these difficult times I do not forget <strong>the dozens of Jews who are still held hostage by Hamas terrorists<\/strong> and all the Jews who are suffering from the scourge of anti-Semitism, which has sadly resurged in force in the West. <strong>As a Christian I tell you that you are not alone<\/strong> and that in this corner of the web you have a place where you are loved and appreciated. <strong>Shalom Aleichem, may the peace be with you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Christians celebrate the coming into the world of Baby Jesus, and the Jewish community begins its Festival of Lights, Hanukkah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10712],"tags":[2746,11252,20307,13443,95,12605],"class_list":["post-58180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-religion-eng","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-christmas","tag-hamas-terrorist-attack-on-israel-on-october-7-2023","tag-hanukkah","tag-israel","tag-judaism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}