If Joseph and Mary tried to reach Bethlehem today...

Every year people start articles with the line 'If Joseph and Mary tried to reach Bethlehem today...'  What follows is usually some article full of lies and at best half truths that is designed to raise the hatred of Israel and thus Jews. 

This year The Washington Post fisked one such article rather well. Have a read and keep it on file for next year... 

Here's a brief extract: 

'... since Joseph and Mary were Judeans, i.e., Jews, from Nazareth, they wouldn’t need to be afraid of Israeli roadblocks needed to combat Palestinian terrorism, but of being murdered by terrorists from Hamas or Fatah.'