Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined the United States President Donald Trump in condemning genocide against Christians claims in Nigeria.
In a video released on Wednesday, December 24, Netanyahu singled out Nigeria as a site of ‘Muslim militant displacement’ and attacks that must end now.
The persecution of Christians… cannot and must not be tolerated. And Muslim militant displacement and attacks against Christians in Nigeria, that too must end… it must end now – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu framed Israel as a global protector of Christians, and the only place in the Middle East where the faith is thriving.
Meanwhile, President Trump, after his statement on Christian genocide, has not only re-listed Nigeria for religious freedom violations but has also issued threats of fast and vicious military intervention if the Nigerian government does not act fast to stop the killings, a claim the Nigerian government has dismissed as misinformed and a violation of its sovereignty. As a result of the genocide claims and repeated denial by the Nigerian government, the United States dispatched delegates to Nigeria to investigate and to build a counter terrorism framework to help flush out terrorists in Nigeria.
Recall, Dawn Herald reported about a month ago that the U.S. Congressional Delegation, led by Rep. Riley Moore and Mario Díaz-Balart, concluded a fact-finding mission in the Middle Belt, meeting with victims and local bishops in order to build a strategic security framework that may lead to U.S.-led counter-terrorism operations in Nigeria.
While some Nigerian church leaders have welcomed the international attention, many domestic security experts fear that foreign military intervention could exacerbate the very violence it intends to stop.
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