“High-level Christian clerics covered up the real goings-on in the Church of the Nativity standoff, a church official involved in behind-the-scenes negotiations said Friday.”

‘It is not true that all the clergymen are staying in the church of their own free will and that everyone inside is getting along,’ a Jerusalem-based cleric told The Jerusalem Post.

‘But propaganda is all that is heard, in part because of many cover-ups by the Christians who don