Bethlehem walled off by Israel this Christmas

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"Pilgrims travelling the ancient route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem this Christmas will find themselves hitting a dead end -- a towering concrete wall and metal gate under the lock and key of the Israeli army.

The dusty road to the town of Jesus's birth has been the gateway to Bethlehem since biblical times and would have been the likely path taken by Mary and Joseph. But today it leads to what the mayor of Bethlehem calls "the world's largest prison".

At the entrance is a brand new high-tech military crossing where visitors pass through X-ray machines and have their passports scanned before emerging into Bethlehem from behind eight-metre (26-feet) high graffiti-covered concrete walls.

"If Mary and Joseph were here today, they would go through the checkpoint just like everybody else," said Sister Erica, a nun, at the crossing."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19402218.htm

they have a "war on christmas" but not one word on the "war on the christians" in bethlehem. according to recent archaeological discoveries it is the wrong bethlehem...