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* Amit Barak: The Palestinian Campaign to Undermine Relations between Christians and Israel
* Amir Taheri: France: Life Without a Government


** The Palestinian Campaign to Undermine Relations between Christians and Israel ([link removed])
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by Amit Barak • October 12, 2025 at 5:00 am
* In recent months, we have witnessed a well-timed campaign led by the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and anti-Israel Christian elements – some of them declared anti-Semitic – to undermine the relations between the State of Israel and Christian communities around the world, especially evangelical and pro-Israel Christians whose long-standing support for Israel is not self-evident.
* Four notable events this year indicate the tremendous power of this campaign: The blood libel falsely alleging the burning of the Church of St. George in Taybe; an episode of the Tucker Carlson Show with an American nun who presented a series of anti-Semitic claims without any factual, historical or theological basis; the Declaration of the World Council of Churches in June 2025; a Palestinian food advertisement mocking Christianity.
* The World Council of Churches over the years has tried to wear the mask of a supposedly "neutral" organization. In light of the campaign, it seems that in this statement, the WCC has dared to say openly what it always wanted but previously did not dare to say.
* This group uses clear anti-Semitic messages, and... the expected response from the Israeli government was therefore to declare a ban on entry into Israel to any person who is a member of the WCC or to any activist in the illegal EAPPI program, which the WCC has been operating in Israel since 2002. But the government did not declare such a ban.
* While the Christian population is persecuted under the Palestinian Authority, outwardly it conveys a completely opposite image.
* This anti-Christian campaign in the PA areas did not reach the wider world or the international media.
* The events listed above are not accidental. They are part of a sweeping campaign run well by the Palestinian Authority, BDS organizations and anti-Semitic elements in global religious institutions, aimed at harming Israel's relations with the Christian world, weakening the support of Christians for Israel, and, through the churches, isolating Israel in the international arena.

Pictured: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is led on a tour of the Church of Saint George in Taybe, by the village mayor, Suleiman Khourieh (L), and others, on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyyeh/AFP via Getty Images)

From Taybe to Tucker Carlson, Palestinians are trying to drive a wedge between the Christian world and Israel, while Israel's government appears to be asleep on guard duty.

In recent months, we have witnessed a well-timed campaign led by the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and anti-Israel Christian elements – some of them declared anti-Semitic – to undermine the relations between the State of Israel and Christian communities around the world, especially evangelical and pro-Israel Christians whose long-standing support for Israel is not self-evident.

This campaign includes fake plots, media attacks, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel messaging, and incitement under the guise of religious discourse or human rights. Four notable events this year indicate the tremendous power of this campaign:

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** France: Life Without a Government ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • October 12, 2025 at 4:00 am
* Without falling for anarchist fantasies, one might ask what governments, at least in Western democracies, do.
* The main thing they do is to take your money and spend it on your behalf the way they wish, including social bribes to their segments of the electorate.
* After two years of no real government, France is no worse than it was before the current "existential crisis" began.
* Needless to say, the widest choice of restaurants in the world continues to offer delicious food.
* Having virtually no government hasn't stopped the French tradition of anti-government riots either. We have had three in the last two months and will have another next week, even if a sixth prime minister is found. Who cares if there is no government; we must assert our Frenchness by rioting against the government.
* If there is no budget, the 2025 budget will be extended for 2026. Then what happens?
* To start with, there would be no new taxes, a relief to a society crushed by taxation. There would also be no new rules and regulations in the name of environmental, social and solidarity concerns, not to mention alternative lifestyles or compensation for real or imaginary victims. A useless but costly referendum in New Caledonia will also be scrapped.

Pictured: French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu arrives to deliver a statement at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Stephanie Lecocq/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The following could have appeared in the small-ads section of one of the free newspapers distributed in the Paris Metro: "Desperately seeking a Prime Minister, contact Marianne."

Marianne is the fictive damsel who serves as a symbol of the French Republic, in the form of statuettes at town halls and on postage stamps.

Marianne's urgent demand is prompted by the resignation of Sébastien Lecornu, the fifth prime minister named by President Emmanuel Macron in just two years. (Lecornu was reappointed on October 10.)

Lecornu's government set a historic global record of short-livedness by lasting just 820 minutes.

The pattern established in the past two years shows that finding a prime minister is more and more difficult, as no one wants to be PM while everyone dreams of becoming president.

And even if a new stopgap PM is found before this column appears, it is not certain he or she would do any better than his or her five immediate predecessors.

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