Well, it’s actually quite a well laid out lie, and UTD might not have made it flow so well…
When you bring the refuge seekers to near starvation, hey, Muslims are allowed to drink alcohol and eat pork…It’s a matter of survival…
Perhaps you also don’t know that IDF had cut off water, food and medicine to the beleaguered monastery, so not only were they thirsty and starved, they were being slowly exterminated…
Here is an eyewitness account of what happened, not the propaganda lies that UTI is spreading:
I [Amjad Sabarra] am a Palestinian from Jerusalem’s Old City and a member of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. Ordained to the priesthood in June 1992, I serve as the Roman Catholic pastor of the world’s oldest parish: Bethlehem’s Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lord.
Thirty other friars, four Catholic nuns, nine Greek Orthodox monks, five Armenian monks and I were caught by surprise last spring during the 39-day siege of the basilica and its adjoining buildings.
On the morning of April 2, 2002, 10 armed Palestinian men wandered into the basilica. Father Ibrahim Faltas, O.F.M., and I approached them and explained that we do not allow arms in the basilica and that they would have to leave. They did so quietly and politely. We then bolted the front door of the church.
Around 3 p.m. we heard a lot of gunfire, and yelling in and near the basilica. We quickly entered the church to find several hundred Palestinians running into the nave of the basilica with several dozen men carrying guns and semi-automatics. Apparently, they had broken the front door of the church.
There was absolutely no way that we could have stopped them or even tried to persuade them to leave. Israeli soldiers were shooting outside, and the Palestinians were inside. We had no choice but to give them sanctuary and protection.
http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Aug2002/Feature1.asp
