West Bank church arson: who’s the perp?
I’m very very tired of the MSM reporting anti-Israel news from Palestinians as though it’s the obvious truth, when it’s a lie that’s gotten halfway round the world very very quickly.
It happens too many times to be an MSM error, either. They must want to do this, as part of the anti-Israeli propaganda they have decided to spread. I probably don’t have to give you examples, but the best one was on October 17, 2023, when the MSM immediately reported a hospital strike and 500 dead at the hands of Israel – a strike that actually was a Hamas rocket falling short into a hospital parking lot and killing about 25-50 people without damaging the hospital at all. But the MSM couldn’t wait for facts; the fiction was just too useful.
Now we have reports such as this:
Claims that extremist local Jewish West Bank residents set fire to a 1,500-year-old Church of St. George in the Palestinian village of Taybeh may have been inaccurate, the Press Service of Israel (TPS) revealed in an independent investigation published on Sunday.
Taybeh, a Palestinian Christian town, is situated just north of Ramallah in the West Bank.
TPS said it found evidence that local Jewish residents were fighting the fire; however, the investigation was inconclusive as to who the perpetrators of the fire were.
Last Monday, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who was a leading candidate for the papacy, along with diplomats from 20 different countries, visited the church.
“Radical Israelis from nearby settlements intentionally set fire near the town cemetery and the church of St. George,” Theophilos III alleged. He said that it was a “targeted attack on a community that has long been a symbol of coexistence and peace.”
I wouldn’t sit on a hot stove till Theophilos III issues a retraction.
More:
In footage viewed by TPS, young men from a nearby farm were seen running up the hill with fire extinguishing equipment and reflective vests, attempting to put out the flames. Footage on social media, posted by pro-Palestinian accounts that claimed the individual was an arsonist, showed a young man with a compressed air blower, usually used to help control and extinguish brush fires, according to TPS.
A shepherd involved in the incident, who is a minor, told the news site that while he was tending to his animals in the field, he saw a fire break out. He called the farmer to report the fire and attempted to smother the flames with his shirt. While doing this, he saw several Palestinians leaving the inflamed church cemetery, shouting and throwing objects at him.
When in doubt, blame the Jews.
Saw some odd footage today. An archaeologist was walking through a number of fallen stone walls which, she said, was the church in question. No sign of fire.
So…is the church a bunch of fallen stone walls maybe three feet high, or is it a functioning building?
There was a brush fire in a lot adjacent to the church, according to Caroline Glick. She linked: https://x.com/israelpolice/status/1947390091099279539
I’m very very tired of the MSM reporting anti-Israel news from Palestinians as though it’s the obvious truth, when it’s a lie that’s gotten halfway round the world very very quickly.
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I saw a contention yesterday that when David Letterman retired, the median age of his viewing audience was 60; ten years later, the median age of Stephen Colbert’s viewing audience is 68. I’ll wager the age distribution of the nightly news is about the same. About 14% of the population is over the age of 68.
Art Deco:
These stories are generally amplified and disseminated widely on social media and by podcasters.
UK National Arson:
It’s VERY clear who’s the perp…
(BTW, it’s a team effort.)
“Britain waves the white flag to Islamization and illegal immigration”—
https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/opinion/britain-waves-the-white-flag-to-islamization-and-illegal-immigration/
“The Islamophilia of King Charles;
“He has long seen Islam as a reactionary corrective to Western modernity.”-/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/22/the-islamophilia-of-king-charles/
H/T Powerline blog, for both.
(Charles is the reason why Queen Elizabeth II, a genuine heroine—as was her mother—did her best to remain alive for as long as she could.)
Ozzy Osbourne outlived England, sad to say.
Very much related…
“ASTROTURF ENCOUNTERS GRASSROOTS”—
https://instapundit.com/733715/
Series of tweets…
Key quote:
@Barry Meislin:The Islamophilia of King Charles
There’s an odd novel by G. K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn, written in 1914, about the Islamification of Britain, which starts with a temperance movement and ends with a Turkish invasion. A lot of what else is described in that book is what goes on today: that the people making the new laws and new rules set them up in such a way as to not be inconvenienced by them, and that in their turning away from Christianity they have no arguments left against Islam.
Not so odd, alas…
As an aside, it’s interesting that in Baring-Gould and Chesterton, Britain, over a century ago, produced some of the most formidable detective fiction that the world has ever known.
Seems that now, those who govern it would have tremendous difficulties trying to find their way out of a paper bag.
(By intention, of course.)
File under: “Hounds of the Nation-Killers: How to Destroy One’s Country While Earnestly Pretending to Save It”
Barry — “Police escorting masked agitators toward peaceful protesters isn’t crowd control folks, it’s provocation”
Sounds familiar. Ie: the 2017 Charlottesville protests, which ended sadly with a dead young woman. Maybe because the police were directed to funnel both protests into each other.
Also created the “very fine people” hoax, demonizing Trump.
Interesting.
I don’t know enough about the details WRT the incident at Charlottesville…but I’m convinced that J6 was most definitely an elaborately planned Democratic Party/FBI op.
As for the current state of the Whodunnit, the genre has devolved into something far more repulsive than even Scandinavian Noir…
“The West Won’t Survive Its Own Cowardice”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/07/22/the-west-wont-survive-its-own-cowardice/
(It’s become practically a grotesque, if fascinating, mud wrestling match between DJT and the Marquis de Sade—i.e., the ROW, or much of it….)
I used to believe that the TV series “The Crown” was unfair in how it portrayed Chuck as a whiny pussy.
Heh. How ’bout this: ALWAYS blame the Jews–irrespective of whether or not there is any doubt.
I’m just about finished listening to Salena Zito’s book “Butler.” It is not long, and she is a talented writer.
She was four feet from Trump when he was shot, and he called her seven times the next day.
She details how she watched the people of that region evolve from New Deal Democrats to working class Republicans. She knows every politician in PA and Ohio too, and both sides trust her and talk to her.
Well worth the time to understand how the electorate is evolving.
(Charles is the reason why Queen Elizabeth II, a genuine heroine—as was her mother—did her best to remain alive for as long as she could.)
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Oh, for crying out loud.
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Theophilous?
Theophilous who?
Theophilous Punnovall.
Indeed, many did.
(As they did for her mother, “the most dangerous woman in Europe”….)
Just finished ” Butler”. Good work all around, but the tone-deaf errors in the campaign by Kamala’s handlers are hard to imagine. You have to work to be that dumb?
Peripherally related. Note the punctuation convention used by this Jordanian news outlet when reporting news on Israel:
https://en.royanews.tv/news/61514
It’s called “Peace Dividend”(TM).