As the Jewish state, Israel cherishes and upholds the Jewish values of tolerance and mutual respect between Jews and worshippers of all faiths. All religions flourish in our land and we view members of all faiths as equals in building our society and region.
Yesterday, like the…
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 20, 2026
“Yesterday, like the overwhelming majority of Israelis, I was stunned and saddened to learn that an IDF soldier damaged a Catholic religious icon in southern Lebanon. I condemn the act in the strongest terms. Military authorities are conducting a criminal probe of the matter and will take appropriately harsh disciplinary action against the offender. While Christians are slaughtered in Syria and Lebanon by Muslims, the Christian population in Israel thrives unlike elsewhere in the Middle East. Israel is the only country in the region that the Christian population and standard of living is growing. Israel is the only place in the Middle East that adheres to freedom of worship for all. We express regret for any hurt this has caused to believers in Lebanon and around the world,” the Israeli dictator continued, emphasis added on the “Catholic religious icon” part of his self-serving platitude.
The “Catholic religious icon” was Jesus. Earlier the IDF admitted that the footage of a soldier knocking the statue of Jesus off the crucifix and smashing it in the face with a fire axe was genuine and not AI-generated as surely plenty of Zionist dickheads had claimed. It’s not clear why Netanyahu won’t just fucking say it was Jesus’s image defaced but then again “Bibi” is a piece of shit who will hopefully die in a prison cell at the Hague. If this largely isolated act of iconoclasm had been the worst thing the IDF did so far this decade then maybe his morally relativistic bullshit would be worth more time and space rather than just another snapshot to add to his awful record.
Netanyahu needs to be removed from power. That’s the real take here. The Jesus statue can be replaced. All the innocent lives ruined and outright annihilated in service of his power cannot.