Hamas Has Won This War. Their Secret Weapon? Jesus.

I could not believe what I was hearing. No fact-checking went into a sermon that was delivered on one of the most important days of their year. Surely a Christian clergy person knows that Jesus was a Jew born in Judea. There were no Palestinians* during the time of Jesus. Palestine is not mentioned once in the New Testament because the land was not called that until around 130 CE after the Romans expelled the Jews from the territory. The specific purpose for this renaming was to disavow the Jews of their connection to the land. So I would argue that calling Jesus a Palestinian is not only an insult to Jews, but also a slap in the face to Jesus, his family, and his disciples — all of whom were from Judea. If he (a Jewish baby) were born today, it would be fair to assume that he would be a target of Hamas, not the IDF. <a href="https://medium.com/the-judean-peoples-front/hamas-has-won-this-war-their-secret-weapon-jesus-746797d71890">Learn More</a>