Christmas and the jobless Jesus

a Palestinian- family in Bethlehem 1945

doesn't this scene look familiar to you ???

Soon comes Christmas

where people exchange gifts

and have probably forgotten the Man from Nazareth.

Christmas comes soon

with Santa-Claus as the central figure

and the Son of Mariam is only in the background,

part of decoration only........ .......

Who cares ?? !!

Factories make more toys

Shops sell more toys

while all the children rejoice

as for Jesus , he is no more needed,

because Santa Claus does everything , instead of him .

This is all a bit like the Holy Lands , today:

Christians of the West support the Jews of the West

and forgot the Christians of the East.

Muslims who believe 100% in the same Jesus

are considered by the West as a far-away-religion

while all the Zionists rejoice and got Palestine as a gift .

Materialism took over from Spiritualism

while a Religion became a Nation

and another real-Nation becomes a nation of refugees.

The Promised-land becomes the loote for the invaders

while the victims of that invasion become the Terrorists

and our robbers give us lessons in Democracy and Freedoms.

Christmas-symbolism is sold to the shops

while National Rights are traded in the United Nation Assemblya

and ex-Colonial- powers want to lesson us about the Human-right.

Bethlehem , is surrounded by a wall

while no one from Nazareth can reach it

and the shops of Gaza have no gifts to sell ,

let alone bread, to eat.

Soon comes Christmas

you shall recognise it only by seeing Santa Claus

and that huge Wall.......

Raja Chemayel

a Christian from the East

an Arab from the Lebanon