Residents and businesses in the city of Bethlehem are facing the affects of the Israel-Hamas war during the holiday season. The city, usually filled with tourists during this time, is empty with hotels seeing an increase in cancellations.
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It even worse for the Palestinian people
Very clever how they avoided telling the audience under whose authority the city of Bethlehem is under. Hint: It’s not the Israeli government and hasn’t been for years.
Its funny how people keep forgetting that Hamas had started this, Oct. 7th was the worse mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. Israel fights to defend itself. God will grant His ancient people victory over the genocidal maniacs of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
All due to the Hamas terrorist which hate Christian’s and the Jewish people. Islam is a religion of hate. Satan is at the center of it all.
The question remains, are the cancelation due to the war, or are the cancelation due to the Pro-Palestinian Movement?!
Democrats and Rinos have started 2 wars in 3 years. 😈
thats not right they should stil have it. this is so sad. prayers,love and hugs
Maybe ask sky daddy. See how that works out.
Its not about crowds and BOOKING ROOMS IN YOUR HOTEL! Atleast their is room for Joseph, Mary and Jesus! To complain about LACK OF BUSINESS and call it “THE WORST CHRISTMAS EVER”? Defeats the whole purpose of Christmas!
thanks to ur guest that she didnt forget the people in Gaza that was lovely from her peace for all Muslim Christian and Jewish
People like to think this is a battle between Jews and Muslims when in fact this is a battle between zionists versus everyone else who is a human
Jesus wasn’t born on the sun’s god day of worship
Amen it’s a bad Christmas season, it’s so warm I ended up selling one of my snowmobiles
The whole world needs to build an Airport directly in Westbank. This will bring in so much money for Westbank. The whole world would only want to spend all their money directly to Westbank. The whole World we should think about that.
The Jews have not killed any Christians since the outbreak of the war, they only target Muslim
Hilarious, there was no Christmas in Bethlehem for Jesus being born. Christmas was started by Emperor Constantine 300 years after Jesus was Crusified.
How about covid?
Wow NBC with news that people are not going to a war zone these days. What insightful news by a pathetic and discusting news network.
Incorrect, they chose intentionally not to do anything for Christmas.
What’s that? Your religious war is affecting your religious holiday experience? Wow who would have thought.
Palestina is a holy place for Jews, Christian and Moslems can be the first religious destination trip in the world.
No Xmas = no money coming in 😂
The religious culture that killed Jesus Christ does not celebrate Christmas and they hate Christian tourists.
This has got to financially hurt not having tourists visit Israel.
Yeah…war kinda has a way of doing that. SMFH.
No Christmas in Bethlaham, ah, but Jesus is there, and everywhere, can’t put out the fire…
Ya, ppl being tortured & murdered– bites.
Peace on Earth!
Dream on,read your bible
Israel should just take that city back honestly
Netanyahu responsible
This will help all Christians embrace the true meaning of Christmas… For unto US…a SAVIOR is born. We were never asked to celebrate it… only to love and respect …and believe.
You need to do some research to find the TRUE meaning of christmas,cause Jesus has NO business in it
You mean saturnalia? Or yule?
Or any other name it went by before the christian cult?
😂😂😂😂 a savioooorrrrrr is bornnmn in her 2000 yr old comic book.
@@ninefingerjack right,now you got it
Ill bet the Satanists are very happy about yhat
*Throws a whole false flag genocide*
“Worst Christmas ever”
Can’t make this ish up.
Blame Hamas and Islamic jihad!
I would never brighten the doors of ANY part of the “the holy land”. Too dangerous.
FREE PALESTINE!!
Because Christmas and worship is all about money
The birthland of Jesus is being ethnic cleansed the people are getting ready for Christmas supporting the idfc
So Jewish don’t believe Jesus is not God but they live on the same land he was born on and now cancel Christmas?
Maybe Jesus will come to this EARTH again on Christmas day.
since this war dont stop & its almost Jesus Birthday soon..
WHAT is the address of that Nativity shop
We hold Jesus in our hearts every day. Let us remember we celebrate Jesus Birth.
Which version?
Was never like that under Muslim rule but you you can’t hurt their feelings saying that.
The Zionist spit on the nuns not surprisingly they are the chosen people
Because you LIBERALS ruined everything. EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
Biden Ordered a Veto of a ceasefire during the holidays. Biden clearly understood that Israel craved Killing during Hanukkah and Christmas as Jill & Joe Biden enjoy their lively holiday. My God are they depraved.
Judgement is about to fall! Please turn to Jesus! Place your faith and trust in Jesus!
How to get saved! Believe!
A: admit you are a sinner
B: believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord and He shed His blood on the cross as payment for all of your sins, He died, was buried, and rose the third day!
C: confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord!
Today is the day of salvation! Choose this day whom you will serve!
“for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 3:23 KJV
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16 KJV
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 14:6 KJV
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12 KJV
What you mean is that HAMAS has won?
Everything happens for a reason. Maybe a message?
Learn your history and stop buying into government and media lies.
0:39 sorry to ruin everybody’s beliefs but Jesus Christ was not born in Bethlehem that was something that was rewritten in the Bible but if you guys do your research you will know and find out that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem and Jesus is not White Jesus is actually a dark Olive skinned man of god created by god gods son.
It is risky to celebrate Christmas in the media, it could be very dangerous, i heard .
Celebrating fairy tales usually gets someone ridiculed…
The worst Christmas was in A.D. 536.
Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Christ, we have lost our way.
Countless innocent victims.
Those people don’t care about Christmas. They follow the true God and not some man made holiday where suckers all over the world buy gifts for their kids and tell them that some imaginary fat dude snuck in and left it for them. And it is not the worst by far. They were under Roman occupation before. They have been through far worst and their God always sees them through it.
Goos
Poor Isreal. Christians not making the pilgrimage must absolutely break Isreals hearts. Odd as they deny Jesus, Christianity and Christmas as Goyim…derogatory yiddish term for inferior to or illegitimate to. What they will miss is revenue.
Justice for Palestine!
Blame the Jews
Affected bye genocide and occupation
I don’t like what the Palestinian Authority is doing in suppressing the celebration activities surrounding the Christmas season. The manger scene, the colorful lights are beautiful. However, this is not ultimately what Christmas is actually about. Maybe it is a good thing for people spiritually speaking, as it gives people the opportunity to take the Christmas fanfare, with the lights and fireworks, off the streets and to bring Christmas back into the home and to make it a more sacred occasion.
Jezeus is an idol, nothing about him is sacred. When the real Moshiach ben David comes, there will be no more christmas, churches, mosques, new testament, quran, nativity scene idols, crucifixes, none of that.
@@yochananzahav3758
Whatever you say, Heretic.
People need to stop being deceived and read your bibles Christmas is not the birthday of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the Bible never says it’s his birthday we should have nothing to do with this pagan holiday
peace now,
Jesus was Black. To think that yt people can just change history and colonize the world with no consequences is simply ridiculous. 🤷🏾♂️
Skill issue
Revelation 9:17-20 KJVS
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. [18] By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. [19] For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. [20] And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Jesus wasn’t born in December, he was born in April. And Jesus is Caucasian! Merry Christmas/Happy New Year.
Luckily we as Cristians (Catholics) aren’t fighting a piece of land because our prophet told us. We don’t need a piece of dirt to call ours we can practice our faith anywhere
Waaaah my fairy tales… waaaaah
when it comes to the people in the world, we are all chump change to politrixians…may G-F bless us ALL🤦🏻♀‼
I pray for the peace of Israel.
Jesus’ main message is that we forgive others to be loving and find peace. Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians forces that are warring with each other are going in that direction.
The Palestinian authority is not suppressing Christmas. Christians in Palestine are not celebrating themselves because of the genocide going on to their people your ignorant fool
So you thought that life as usual while Children are being Murdered you feel God Sleeping they feeling it you feel it too call it Solidarity for dead Children
Thanks, Joe.
Christ dont want that Idol Worshiping Feed the Children will be better more Blessing in feeding the poor
Jesus is indeed Lucifer the Morning Star, which is why Isaiah 14:12 lists Lucifer as the Morning Star and then Jesus calls himself the Morning Star in Rev 22:16. The reason Christians fail to see the obvious is because they are brainwashed by their churches into reading the Bible BACKWARDS and reading the New Testament BEFORE the Old Testament. We read books from FRONT TO BACK for a reason, and that is because you can’t possibly understand the end of a book that you don’t understand the beginning of. And it is not even possible to fully understand a book from reading the LAST QUARTER of it. With that being said…—-> Adam and Eve were NOT first, and the 2 stories of Creation in Genesis are NOT about the same Creation as the Christian church teaches. GOD makes people on the 6th day of Creation in Genesis 1:26. Then in Genesis chapter 2 God rests, God sanctifies the 7th day, and then the LORD God of Israel creates Adam and Eve on the 7th day of Creation. To work on the 7th day that God has blessed and sanctified is BLASPHEMY, which is what makes the LORD God SATAN the LORD of this world. That also makes clear that Adam and Eve were NOT FIRST, they were made second. Doesn’t the 6th day of Creation come BEFORE the 7th day of Creation?—-> The family lineage that begins with Adam and ends with Jesus is the family lineage made by SATAN the LORD God, not God. That’s why Isaiah 14:12 lists Lucifer as the Morning Star, and then Jesus calls himself the Morning Star in Rev 22:16. Jesus was Lucifer in the flesh, not God in the flesh. Jesus is Lucifer the Morning Star! Go to my channel for more details…
That NEW WORLD Order that Alex Jones and other GOP Christians pretend to fight is really the goal of Christianity otherwise known as the NEW EARTH (Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, 2 Peter 3:13, Rev 21:1) to be ruled by the New Jerusalem. The New Earth is where the nations are destroyed and massed together for a world government that will be on the shoulders of Jesus. Well, isn’t the New World Order a world government as well? And gee, New Earth even sounds exactly like New World, doesn’t it? That is not a coincidence, the New Earth is indeed the New World Order. It’s all right there in your NEW WORLD Translation Bible if you actually bothered to read it… <-) The GOP already used their NRA lobbying dollars to REWRITE THE 2ND AMENDMENT in 2008. The GOP and the Koch brothers REWROTE THE CONSTITUTION with the Citizens United ruling. Now the GOP has FIVE MORE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS planned. That makes SEVEN Constitutional Amendments in 9 YEARS for the GOP. Anyone who cares for the CONSTITUTION would NEVER vote for the GOP EVER... The media in the country is corrupt, it is all right wing Fascist MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX run pro-Christian pro-Israel PROPAGANDA, plain and simple. When has ANY media channel EVER allowed someone like myself to BIBLICALLY challenge the Christian religion? NEVER, because if someone like me had access to major media channels, very few people would be Christian. CBS was founded by Westinghouse, a major DEFENSE contractor. NBC was formerly owned by General Electric, another huge DEFENSE contractor. And this is the LIBERAL media, huh?? Pfftt, hardly. New International Version How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! New Living Translation "How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. English Standard Version “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! New American Standard Bible "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! King James Bible How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Holman Christian Standard Bible Shining morning star, how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground. International Standard Version "How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation! NET Bible Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations! GOD'S WORD® Translation How you have fallen from heaven, you morning star, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you conqueror of nations! Jubilee Bible 2000 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, who didst claim the Gentiles as an inheritance! King James 2000 Bible How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! American King James Version How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! American Standard Version How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! Douay-Rheims Bible How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? Darby Bible Translation How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations! English Revised Version How art thou fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst lay low the nations! Webster's Bible Translation How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! World English Bible How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! Young's Literal Translation How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
Christ, was never in Christmas..where can you find the Apostles celebrating Christmas..Very pagan in its origins too
Looks like little baby Jesu$ is gunna have a $hitty birthday party this year folks ??? Guess that happens when YOU $HOOT EVERYTHING IN SIGHT ??? just another day at ranch HOLYLAND ??? peace on earth good will towards humans remember people??
Yes, because there are not much Christian there any more. Mostly muslim, even if they are the nicer kind;)
My heart truely aches. Jesus’s birthplace. What a horrible situation. May God’s Angels wrap their arms around Bethlehem and keep you all protected. Amen
There are barley any Christians left there. Most moved away from there because the Palestinians were oppressing there human rights and trying to convert them to Islam. Some of the women there were force into married with a Muslim man .
My goodness, normally I wouldn’t bother but somehow my comment was misconstrued sadly, in no way was this a question regarding the significance of the site, nor the celebration. That being said, the area is unsafe presently, there is no peace presently in Bethlehem… it not safe for with the hate raging everywhere with hostages still being held, that’s all, I shake my head… Blessings…
That is the weirdest thing to see on the headline. It’s a bad Christmas for Bethlehem? No tourists? No money? It wasn’t that great for Mary either and then all the shepherds stopped by? The worst of it is, right now it’s more like it was when Christ was born
I wonder about what he sells. I went to Israel several years ago. The guy we were with said, it’s a place where Arabs sell products from China to American tourists
Why don’t you have all the Libs go to Israel and visit their Hamas friends. Maybe Hamas will invite them to “extend” their stay. Maybe after theLibs “experience” Hamas’s “Hospitality” they might have an “Attitude Change” about Hamas. Normal people don’t want to go any where near Hamas.
😂😂😂😂 eveeerrrrrrrr. Like omg becky karens maybe stop religious feud/war so u can continue to obfuscate our true origins on ur perfected marketing dates.😂😂😂
Save the Palestinian children ❤
Jesus flipped tables of the money changers. This complaining of not being able to make money during a time like this is disrespectful
In these days of aquarius. Manifest destinys exposed!
Free p Alestine 💔
1. God created all of us.
2. We rebelled against God and committed sin.
3. Immeasurable love of God sent His only Son Lord Jesus to us to take our place on Calvary.
4. All who receive Lord Jesus are made children of God-This is the offer of Grace by God.
5. Have you received Lord Jesus as the Messiah (King) of your life? Tomorrow might be too late!
Bethlehem is the birthplace of King David. In 1967 when Israel won the war over Jordan, Bethlehem returned to Israeli control after several millenia under the control of christians and muslims. Recently, the christians have been replaced by muslims and soon, they will both be replaced by Israelis. The amount of christian idolatry in that city is staggering. There must be more idols per capita than any other city in the world. When the real Moshiach ben David comes, Bethlehem will have no churches or mosques and all of the wood carvings and images of jezeus will be gone. I am happy that Bethlehem’s christmas celebrations are gone this year and hope that it continues every year.
If ever the world needs a Second Comming, it is now.
Alas, I think the Lord has forsaken us all. Otherwise, people world wide
wouldn’t be suffering as they are!
how shallow a person – no joy because there is no christmas tree or people in the streets? if that is where you find your joy, i pity you. My joy is in the Lord and His birth – my Savior’s birth – THERE IS MY JOY – not in the failings of humans – you need prayer
They’re are barley any Christians left in Bethlehem because most of them moved. The Palestinians abused and tried to force people to convert to Islam. But NBC will just gloss over that. Its always the Israelis fault. Hamas started this war and most Palestinians consider peace by only two ways. Either die or move away from the whole land. That’s never going to happen. Bethlehem is controlled by the Palestinian authority.
ohhhh si now these arent real christians😂 bacuse they dont suport your bloodthirsty baibie killers inavders
This breaks my heart:( here we with our Xmas tree up.and enjoying the Xmas holidays and otherside of the world this is happening 💔
How sad to view it as worst ever!???? Stop thinking about all of that and all the money!!!!! God is Always good! There are many miracles happening even through war! Be grateful and thankful praise him in times of trouble
I hope this is a wake up call for Christians to realize that Zionist Nazisraël doesn’t give a f@#& about Palestinians OR Christians alike . Free Palestine ✌🏼🇵🇸
Bethlehem is now part of WestBank occupied by Palestinians. We all know this is a Jewish land where Jesus born.
Abdols are thirsty to b**/ood of non muslims