A paying guest actions and despite all the american policy we have the right to live joy to live peace and this is what we express in our celebrations and through our message of peace not only to us for do not live repeat is but to the whole world as well you mentioned the wall what exactly has happened to bethlehem to christians i understand 86 percent. Of christians of have left and the wall is being blamed for that as well as illegal new occupations around bethlehem when we talk about the christian presence in palestine and in general and the christian presence in bethlehem in particular the political situation since the 1967 enhanced and then forced and encouraged the. Degrees of the christian presence and migration of christians from bethlehem in specific many of the christian bethlehem ites before 967 immigrated seeking Job Opportunities seeking better conditions other parts of the world including latin america the us the moment israel did its consensus all who were not inside lo
A look gorgeous the motor was the joy of christmas and the joy of christmas is this year all over the place in every city in the west bank in. Love it for hollywood and im a large area go everywhere people are celebrating the joy of christmas the last time around we spoke to mayor and john salmond he described christmas celebrations in bethlehem as almost an act of defiance against the defacto u. K. U. S. Backed Israeli Occupation do you think that occupation is still on the minds of all the pilgrims that will be there celebrating this year well actually the wall speaks for itself the world by itself is and good patient so when you look at when youre at the end of the city you enter the city definitely there are a normal conditions however our persistence to conduct the celebration of christmas in the city. The nativity in the city of birth of peace it is yes. A determination that we are there to celebrate christmas despite all the paying actions and despite all the american policy we
Composers how it played on his Legendary Music for the snowman and composing for everyone from Princess Diana to the United Nations ahead of his performance tomorrow with welsh met so soprano Katherine Jenkins at the Royal Albert Hall also more coming up in todays going on the ground a 1st after tomorrows u. K. General election let alone the fallout from the u. S. Inspector generals report into obama corruption in the usa will come christmas when millions of people of the book all around the world look to bethlehem in palestine to celebrate the birth of jesus christ but is what is happening in bethlehem arguably just as political as the Major International stories we have covered on this program this year we can go now to bethlehem in palestine joining me is Beth Forman Vera and thanks so much vera for you coming on to if you could just paint as a picture of what beth them is like this year because obviously theres a wall theres the aida refugee camp banksy so tell the woman in black t