Last Updated on December 29, 2023
Armed Zionist terrorists launched a “massive and coordinated physical attack” against Christian clergymen and other Christian community members in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter, where violent Zionists backed by Israeli law enforcement and members of the Israeli government have been attempting an ethnic cleansing to clear the way for Jewish “settlers” and business interests. Ironically, the Israeli attempts to expel or murder the Christians of Jerusalem come as the nation continues to claim it’s in the middle of fending off a holocaust at the hands of Hamas insurgents.
An “URGENT COMMUNIQUE” issued by the Chancellery of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem announced that “A MASSIVE AND COORDINATED PHYSICAL ATTACK WAS LAUNCHED ON BISHOPS, PRIESTS, DEACONS, SEMINARIANS, AND OTHER ARMENIAN COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN JERUSALEM,” on December 28th.
The release from the Armenian Patriarchate went on to say that numerous clergymen and others were seriously injured in the Zionist attack, which comes as Israeli “settlers,” as well as banking and business interests, attempt to take over Jerusalem’s historic Armenian Quarter, home to thousands of Orthodox Christians.
“Over 30 armed provocateurs in ski-masks and with lethal and less-than-lethal weaponry including powerful nerve-agents that have incapacitated dozens of our clergy broke into the grounds of the Cow’s Garden and began their vicious assault,” the release explained, recounting the latest anti-Christian, Zionist attack on the ethnic Armenian, Christian community of Jerusalem’s Old City.
“ARMENIAN CLERICS IN JERUSALEM ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES AGAINST IMPUNE PROVOCATEURS,” the release went on, stressing the widespread support among Israeli authorities for the Jewish “settlers” who aim to seize lands from Christians – the same practice they’ve long employed against Muslims.
In the same urgent release, the Armenian Patriarchate explained that the December 28th attack on the Armenian Quarter came less than 24 hours after the Patriarchate filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Jerusalem for the Cow’s Garden, seeking to block the construction of a luxury hotel in the Armenian Quarter by an Australian-Israeli businessman named Danny Rothman, and his partner George Warwar.
“We are calling on authorities around the world and the International Media to help us save the Armenian Quarter from a violent demise that is being locally supported by unnamed entities,” the Armenian Patriarchate’s release went on, before calling on the Israeli government to put a stop to the attacks, “which seem to have no end in sight.”
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As mentioned, the December 28th attack on the Armenian Christian community of Jerusalem is just the latest in recent weeks and months, launched by Jewish “settlers” and business interests, backed at times by armed police escorts in addition to their own radical militiamen.
Though the Patriarchate had previously struck a deal with the aforementioned Danny Rothman to lease and develop the property, the Armenian community pushed back and demanded the deal be dissolved and the project canceled. When the Patriarchate agreed and moved to end the deal roughly two months ago, the developers showed up anyway and began tearing down Christian buildings with bulldozers.
That was the first in a series of Jewish attacks against the Christian Armenian Quarter.
As National File reported, after another attack in early November:
On the evening of November 5th, armed Israeli “settlers”, accompanied by armed police officers, invaded the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, in an attempt to expel Christians from the area, seize their homes, and repopulate the neighborhood with Jews. By definition, the expulsion attempt constitutes ethnic cleansing and is part of a wider Israeli policy to remove Christians and Muslims from land that the Israelis want complete control of.
In what’s been described as both a “siege” and a “standoff”, Armenian Christians met the “settlers” and their accomplices at the walls of the Armenian Quarter and refused to allow them to advance.