The total and utter divestment of Bishop Riah of Jerusalem

The BBC broadcast a real gem last night on Hard Talk. Pity it was so late. However, you can access it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4775775.stm

There is no doubt that as a result of the educational work of Anglicans for Israel in exposing the real agenda and true beliefs of Bishop Riah, the media are becoming better educated and more willing to subject him to very searching and critical questioning. He can no longer expect the uncritical adulation and reception to which he has become accustomed and perhaps believes is his due.

And he calls himself a Christian: laughable, isn't it!

Revd Lisa Battye writes: Please will you post the following comment on your weblog in respect of Bishop Riah's recent 'Hardtalk' performance: The Broadcast shows Bishop Riah caring only about the establishment of a Palestinian state for his own people. I am concerned that he is laying the blame for the exodus of many of them from the land at the door of Israel, when my information is that they are leaving to avoid having to live as a minority under Shariah law. He has recently issued an impassioned plea to the Christian world to support his Diocese financially (Church Times 4th August p3) saying that his diocese is going through a 'severe financial crisis' through drawing on its reserves to support St Luke's Hospital on the West Bank. The problem seems to be that 'since the death of Yasser Arafat the hospital has not received any of the money promised it by the Palestinian Authority'. It is obviously not a priority of theirs. Lisa Battye

Comments

[Huldah]

I recently received an apology from the BBC for a report by Katya Adler which was aimed at portraying the relationship between Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Muslims as hunky dory.

The BBC admitted that they should have made listeners aware of the considerable injustice routinely experienced by Palestinian Christians at the hands both of Muslim neighbours and the Palestinian Authority.

Riah is a liar when he says that Christians and Muslims lived peaceably for 1400 years. They didn't and they dont.