Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Amvrosios…
Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Amvrosios (c) arrives in an Israeli armored personnel carrier at a checkpoint after leaving the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, along with an unidentified Israeli army officer and an unidentified Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday. A standoff between Palestinians hiding in the church and surrounding Israeli troops was in its fifth day on Saturday. In Athens, about 1,200 Greeks and Palestinians protested outside the Israeli and US embassies, calling for an end to Israel’s latest invasion of the West Bank. In Beijing, Foreign Minister George Papandreou said the USA was wrong to have given the impression that it was watching the Middle East from a distance.
