as you read this i'd like to know why your government and religious institution supports these monsters;

On Saturday, April 23, a day before Orthodox Easter, Israeli police denied hundreds of Palestinian Christians entry into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to celebrate the “Holy Fire” ceremony, during over two weeks of terrifying levels of attacks and abuses with rubber-coated steel bullets, teargas, and stun grenades against Palestinian Muslim worshipers inside the sacred courtyards and prayer halls of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Meanwhile, Jewish settlers were freely marching and waving flags in blatant disregard of the Muslim and Christian holy days, attacking worshipers, and even ignoring the official – but unenforced – Israeli police prohibition against the rally. 

Outrage across Palestine and the world in solidarity with Palestinian worshipers rose up to resist the physical attacks, mass arrests, and moral injustice inflicted by the Israeli settler-police alliance, and signaled real stress in global public opinion that violations of religious freedom are universally taboo.

But since 1948, Israel has pursued a relentless policy of establishing an exclusively Jewish State and maintaining Jewish demographic hegemony throughout historic Palestine. This policy, a human rights violation and blatant apartheid, has meant taking control over more and more Palestinian lands and homes and benefiting Jewish Israelis only, while reducing the Palestinians’ presence and obstructing their capacity for lawful protest and self-determination........read more........