Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

All the clips in this video took place in Bethlehem. Bethlehem is in the Palestinian West Bank, which has been under Israeli occupation since 1967. It is encircled by a wall erected by Israel in 2002. All entrances and exits are controlled by armed Israeli soldiers. Israeli forces regularly invade the area, beating and abducting residents – see – and sometimes killing them, including prominent Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh. She is is from a Christian family from Bethlehem. See and abu akleh&submit= For other deaths see Thanks to the pro-Israel lobby in the US, Congress disburses over $20 million per day of Americans’ tax money directly to or on behalf of Israel. The churches shown at the end are the Church of the Nativity and Christmas Lut