How can Christians allow Jews to tread the ground which Christ trod? the “Jamea el Arabia”, the organ of the Moslem Supreme Council and the Grand Mufti, asks in a long article, in which it is openly trying to incite the Christians against the Jews.
Numbers of Jews, the paper writes, are known to us to have visited the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (which is erected over the traditional birthplace of Christ) during the celebration of the Christmas Festival according to the Greek Orthodox Church.
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