Orthodox nun Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos discussed land dispossession and armed resistance in the Holy Land on Carlson’s show
During conservative media personality Tucker Carlson’s podcast on Monday, Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos of the Russian Orthodox church gave his followers rare insight into the lives of Palestinian Christians under Israeli occupation.
The show was titled, "Here's What It's Really Like to Live as a Christian in the Holy Land", with the YouTube thumbnail image reading "SEGREGATION".
Mother Stephanopoulos has lived in Palestine since 1996 in the Palestinian town of Bethany, in the occupied West Bank, and was one of a string of pro-Palestine guests on the former Fox News host’s show.
In addition to discussing discrimination against Palestinians, Carlson focused much of the interview on Christian Zionism, a right-wing ideology that believes Jews must return to the Holy Land to bring about the second coming of Christ.
“The problem you have is one with the Christian Zionists, the ones who don’t recognise the Christians in the Holy Land as being fully Christian,” Stephanopoulos said.
“We are closed off in Bethany from going to our convent in Jerusalem because of the wall that was built on Palestinian land, on Christian land, there’s a Christian home for boys that the Israelis just took over and cut up to make part of the wall,” she continued. (more...)
Tucker Carlson gives US conservatives rare window into plight of Palestinian Christians
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