The Israeli Arab city said it had cancelled Christmas celebrations in protest at the US President’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Mr Trump announced the move last week, reversing decades of US policy and recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, jeopardising Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike.

Nazareth, the largest Arab town in Israel with a Muslim and Christian population of 76,000, is one of the Holy Land’s focal points of Christmas festivities.

City spokesman Salem Sharara said: “We have decided to cancel the traditional Christmas singing and dancing because we are in a time of dispute, because of what Trump has said about Jerusalem.”

Nazareth is traditionally thought to be where Jesus grew up. The imposing Basilica of the Annunciation in central Nazareth is built on a site which many Christian faithful believe was the childhood home of Jesus’s mother, Mary.

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Mashido:
The Israeli Arab city said it had cancelled Christmas celebrations in protest at the US President’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Mr Trump announced the move last week, reversing decades of US policy and recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, jeopardising Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike.

Nazareth, the largest Arab town in Israel with a Muslim and Christian population of 76,000, is one of the Holy Land’s focal points of Christmas festivities.

City spokesman Salem Sharara said: “We have decided to cancel the traditional Christmas singing and dancing because we are in a time of dispute, because of what Trump has said about Jerusalem.”

Nazareth is traditionally thought to be where Jesus grew up. The imposing Basilica of the Annunciation in central Nazareth is built on a site which many Christian faithful believe was the childhood home of Jesus’s mother, Mary.

Continue reading here: https://nigerianslifestyle..com.ng/2017/12/jesus-birth-town-nazareth-cancels_15.html?m=0

They should be getting ready to go broke because the economic lifeline of the city is pivoted on Christian tourism to the city at Christmas time and off Christmas time. It’s all initial gragra. By the time the city council is broke, sense will fall on them.

Mind you, that does not stop the celebration in different homes and churches. The city is only calling off her own official parts it undertakes yearly for the celebration.

You don’t meddle politics with business. Now, you just spoil earnings from foreign tourists by peasant Muslim traders there this Christmas.