The Real Threat to Palestinian Christians: Radical Islam

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 6:49 pm

The Christians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are no different from their brothers in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya, who face a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing at the hands Islamist groups. Yet Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders want the world to blame only Israel for the predicament of Christians.

The PA's decision to cancel Christmas celebrations had nothing to do with Israel or the "intifada." It came after threats by Muslim extremists to target Christians and their holy sites.

On Christmas Day, Muslim Palestinians hurled stones at the car taking the head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land to Bethlehem. It would not surprise anyone if next year the PA decides to cancel Christmas celebrations for "security reasons."

If, in the media and the international community, this strategy of turning a blind eye to the Muslim persecution of Christians continues, next year's Christmas in Bethlehem is sure to be an even less happy one.

This was not a happy Christmas for our Palestinian brothers in the West Bank who happen to be Christian. The Palestinian Christians have now become a tiny minority in Bethlehem. This year, they were just lucky that Christmas passed without a major terrorist attack or serious outbreaks of violence.

On Christmas day, Muslim Palestinians hurled stones at the car taking the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, to Bethlehem. Twal, head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, was fortunately not hurt in the attack. The stone-throwers, local residents said, were from a refugee camp near Bethlehem. They had apparently said they were opposed to holding any form of celebrations in Bethlehem -- on the pretext that there is no reason to celebrate while Palestinians are being killed by Israelis -- who, by the way, have merely been trying to stop Palestinians from killing them.

There is no guarantee, however, that next year's Christmas in Bethlehem --- and other Palestinian cities and villages -- will be safe for our Christian brothers. It would not be surprising if next year the Palestinian Authority (PA) decides to cancel Christmas celebrations for "security reasons."

The Palestinian Authority leadership, just before Christmas, announced that celebrations this year would be limited to religious festivities, because of the ongoing wave of terrorism against Israelis -- attacks that some of our leaders are calling the "Al-Quds Intifada" or the "popular uprising. Our leaders also told the Christian population that there was no reason to celebrate while Palestinians were being shot and killed by Israelis -- meaning those Palestinians killed while stabbing Jews with knives or running Jews down with cars.

On the eve of Christmas, however, it became clear that the real reason behind the PA's decision to cancel public celebrations had nothing to do with Israel or the "intifada." The decision, it turned out, came after threats by Muslim extremists to target Christians and their holy sites. Christian residents of Bethlehem and Ramallah said they received threats and demands to cancel celebrations from various Islamic groups. Their threats come in the context of ongoing Islamist persecution of Christians not only in the Palestinian territories, but also in other Arab countries, such as Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt.

It is this campaign of intimidation against Palestinian Christians that prompted the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest scores of Islamists in the West Bank ahead of Christmas.

One report, which said that Palestinian security forces in the West Bank had rounded up 16 men affiliated with Islamic State and other jihadi groups, was truly startling. Our leaders in Ramallah have long been denying the presence of Islamic State followers in the West Bank. These men in Ramallah are always saying that such claims are "rumors" spread by Israel to create confusion and anarchy among Palestinians. The clampdown on Islamists in the West Bank shows that our leaders have been lying to us and to the rest of the world, as well.

It also shows that, contrary to what the Palestinian leadership has been saying, Israel and the "intifada" had nothing to do with the decision to cancel Christmas celebrations. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in his Christmas message, chose to ignore the Islamist threats against Palestinian Christians. Instead, he put all the blame on "extremist Israeli settlers," whom he accused of "attacking churches and mosques."

Apparently, President Abbas and our leaders are living on a different planet where people do not hear of the plight of Christians in our neighboring Arab countries. There is, it seems, on Planet Ramallah, no campaign of intimidation and terrorism waged by Palestinian Islamists against our Christian brothers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Even before the attack on Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal, Palestinian Muslims had set fire to a Christmas tree in the Christian village of Al-Zababdeh, in the northern West Bank. Palestinian security forces arrested two Palestinian Muslims belonging to a radical Islamist group, in connection with the arson.

On top of that, in a cynical exploitation of a Christian symbol to promote violence and hate, Palestinian Muslims have been disguising themselves in Santa Claus costumes while throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. It is hard to think of anything more saddening than to watch a Santa Claus engage in violence instead of handing out gifts and candies to little children.

President Abbas, however, does not appear to consider this an insult to Christians and their faith. It seems the Palestinian agitators dressed in Santa Claus outfits were hoping to show the world that Israeli soldiers were deliberately attacking Christians and their symbols. It is not yet clear if there was any disappointment that the Israeli soldiers were apparently not the least bit interested in taking the bait.

For this condition, the mainstream Western media is largely to blame. It has long been complicit, unethically and immorally, in helping Palestinians spread their message of anti-Israeli hate. The Western journalists and photographers covering the violence knew perfectly well that the men wearing Santa Claus outfits and throwing stones while yelling "Allahu Akbar" were in fact Muslims, not Christians, but not one of them chose to report this important fact.

Unfortunately for our Palestinian Christian brothers, a vulnerable minority, this was a somber Christmas in the West Bank. What seemed to many of us most painful on this holiday was not the wave of terrorism against Jews, or the "occupation," but the seriously growing threat of radical Islam.

The Christians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are no different from their brothers in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya, who face a ruthless campaign of persecution and ethnic cleansing at the hands of Islamic State and other Islamist groups. Yet, that is a circumstance our leaders in Ramallah do not want the world to know. They want the world to blame only Israel for the predicament of the Christians in the Palestinian territories and the Middle East.

If, in the media and the international community, this strategy of turning a blind eye to the Muslim persecution of Christians continues, next year's Christmas in Bethlehem is sure to be an even less happy one.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7120/palestinian-christians-threat

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:01 pm

A prominent official of the Palestinian National Authority assured an international Christian audience recently that Muslims and Christians will work closely together in the emerging Palestinian state. Faisal Husseini, a member of Yasir Arafat's inner circle who is responsible for the "Jerusalem file" in the PNA, said on February 11: "Unless Christians and Muslims are together, Palestine is not Palestine. Unless Christians and Muslims work together, peace will not be peace. And unless Jews work with Christians and Muslims, Jerusalem will not be Jerusalem."

Speaking at the opening session of the third international conference of the Sabeel Liberation Theology organization, Husseini was responding to rumors that the relatively small Christian community in Palestine was already experiencing prejudice from within the Muslim-dominated PNA.

Both Christian and Muslim leaders claim that the original source of the rumors is a high-level Israeli who wants to sow seeds of discontent, especially in Bethlehem. The rumors are also being circulated, the leaders believe, by Christian Zionists, including the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been courting the Christian fundamentalists in Jerusalem and also in the U.S.
Mainstream Christian leaders in the Holy Land deny that they have been persecuted by local Muslims. They contend that the new waves of emigration of Christians reflect economic struggles caused by the "closures" imposed on the occupied territories by Israel. …

I'll listen to the Christians themselves, not hasbara right wing neanderthal trolls.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:04 pm

And yet as seen they had to ban any celebrations due to fear of attacks by Muslims and what does sassy sau in regards to this

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by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:06 pm

There were no celebrations banned in the West Bank and Gaza, which is where we are talking about. In fact the only trouble that the Christians had was yet again with Israelis.

I'll listen to the Christians there, not RW neanderthal hasbara trolls.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:09 pm

Yes there was in Bethlehem due tto threats and as seen rocks thrown at car taking the head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land to Bethlehem.
But you think thowinjg rocks is okay do you not sassy.
Again the most feeble excuses to defend radical islam
The more you popst the more you expose the bollocks you promote

Try reading the article and from a Palestinian who writes this

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:16 pm

Had to rush off to be sick, nothing personal.

Salafists, arrested BY THE PALESTINE AUTHORITY. Never used to be any in the West Bank, wonder why they are there now.

Lets not forget

Burning of Christian churches in Israel justified, far-Right Jewish leader says

Head of Lehava, known for violent campaign against Jew-Arab assimilation, risks arrest with public defence of setting fire to Holy Land churches

Email

The Real Threat to Palestinian Christians: Radical Islam Benzi_Gopstein_3399516b

Israeli settler Benzi Gopstein, the leader of the extreme right-wing movement Lehava, in court in Jerusalem in 2014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11786802/Burning-of-Christian-churches-in-Israel-justified-far-Right-Jewish-leader-says.html

And

Jewish leader demands expulsion of 'Christian vampires'

Israeli hardliner calls for Christmas ban, saying Christians need to be thrown out so they don't 'drink our blood'.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/jewish-leader-demands-expulsion-christian-vampires-151223163251568.html

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:25 pm

Sorry you were saying?
You show where Israel does actually arrests extremists out to attack Christians, but nothuibg from Hamas or Fatah?

Your desperation reeks at everyturn as it proves the Israelis do not tolerate terror against Christians.
Again this is all pathetic Islamist apologist like you can do show up where axtually Israel protects Christians, the only safe haven for them in the entire milddle east
And I would be constantly throwing up also if I believed the bullshit that you do

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:27 pm

Not tolerate? Are you nuts. Was he arrested for saying those things? No. Where the people who burnt down the Church of the Fishes arrested - no! Have the many people who have defaced the churches been arrested - no. Have the people who threatened the Pope when he went there been arrented - no!

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:29 pm

Yes you are nuts because the main threat to Christians is from the radical Muslims

The PA's decision to cancel Christmas celebrations had nothing to do with Israel or the intifada. It came after threats by Muslim extremists to target Christians and their holy sites.

This was not a happy Christmas for our Palestinian brothers in the West Bank who happen to be Christian. The Palestinian Christians have now become a tiny minority in Bethlehem. This year, they were just lucky that Christmas passed without a major terrorist attack or serious outbreaks of violence.

On Christmas day, Muslim Palestinians hurled stones at the car taking the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, to Bethlehem. Twal, head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, was fortunately not hurt in the attack. The stone-throwers, local residents said, were from a refugee camp near Bethlehem. They had apparently said they were opposed to holding any form of celebrations in Bethlehem -- on the pretext that there is no reason to celebrate while Palestinians are being killed by Israelis -- who, by the way, have merely been trying to stop Palestinians from killing them.

There is no guarantee, however, that next year's Christmas in Bethlehem --- and other Palestinian cities and villages -- will be safe for our Christian brothers. It would not be surprising if next year the Palestinian Authority (PA) decides to cancel Christmas celebrations for "security reasons."

The Palestinian Authority leadership, just before Christmas, announced that celebrations this year would be limited to religious festivities, because of the ongoing wave of terrorism against Israelis -- attacks that some of our leaders are calling the "Al-Quds Intifada" or the "popular uprising. Our leaders also told the Christian population that there was no reason to celebrate while Palestinians were being shot and killed by Israelis -- meaning those Palestinians killed while stabbing Jews with knives or running Jews down with cars.

On the eve of Christmas, however, it became clear that the real reason behind the PA's decision to cancel public celebrations had nothing to do with Israel or the "intifada." The decision, it turned out, came after threats by Muslim extremists to target Christians and their holy sites. Christian residents of Bethlehem and Ramallah said they received threats and demands to cancel celebrations from various Islamic groups. Their threats come in the context of ongoing Islamist persecution of Christians not only in the Palestinian territories, but also in other Arab countries, such as Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt.

It is this campaign of intimidation against Palestinian Christians that prompted the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest scores of Islamists in the West Bank ahead of Christmas.

One report, which said that Palestinian security forces in the West Bank had rounded up 16 men affiliated with Islamic State and other jihadi groups, was truly startling. Our leaders in Ramallah have long been denying the presence of Islamic State followers in the West Bank. These men in Ramallah are always saying that such claims are "rumors" spread by Israel to create confusion and anarchy among Palestinians. The clampdown on Islamists in the West Bank shows that our leaders have been lying to us and to the rest of the world, as well.

It also shows that, contrary to what the Palestinian leadership has been saying, Israel and the "intifada" had nothing to do with the decision to cancel Christmas celebrations. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in his Christmas message, chose to ignore the Islamist threats against Palestinian Christians. Instead, he put all the blame on "extremist Israeli settlers," whom he accused of "attacking churches and mosques."

Apparently, President Abbas and our leaders are living on a different planet where people do not hear of the plight of Christians in our neighboring Arab countries. There is, it seems, on Planet Ramallah, no campaign of intimidation and terrorism waged by Palestinian Islamists against our Christian brothers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Even before the attack on Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal, Palestinian Muslims had set fire to a Christmas tree in the Christian village of Al-Zababdeh, in the northern West Bank. Palestinian security forces arrested two Palestinian Muslims belonging to a radical Islamist group, in connection with the arson.

On top of that, in a cynical exploitation of a Christian symbol to promote violence and hate, Palestinian Muslims have been disguising themselves in Santa Claus costumes while throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. It is hard to think of anything more saddening than to watch a Santa Claus engage in violence instead of handing out gifts and candies to little children.

President Abbas, however, does not appear to consider this an insult to Christians and their faith. It seems the Palestinian agitators dressed in Santa Claus outfits were hoping to show the world that Israeli soldiers were deliberately attacking Christians and their symbols. It is not yet clear if there was any disappointment that the Israeli soldiers were apparently not the least bit interested in taking the bait.

For this condition, the mainstream Western media is largely to blame. It has long been complicit, unethically and immorally, in helping Palestinians spread their message of anti-Israeli hate. The Western journalists and photographers covering the violence knew perfectly well that the men wearing Santa Claus outfits and throwing stones while yelling "Allahu Akbar" were in fact Muslims, not Christians, but not one of them chose to report this important fact.

Unfortunately for our Palestinian Christian brothers, a vulnerable minority, this was a somber Christmas in the West Bank. What seemed to many of us most painful on this holiday was not the wave of terrorism against Jews, or the "occupation," but the seriously growing threat of radical Islam.

The Christians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are no different from their brothers in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya, who face a ruthless campaign of persecution and ethnic cleansing at the hands of Islamic State and other Islamist groups. Yet, that is a circumstance our leaders in Ramallah do not want the world to know. They want the world to blame only Israel for the predicament of the Christians in the Palestinian territories and the Middle East.

If, in the media and the international community, this strategy of turning a blind eye to the Muslim persecution of Christians continues, next year's Christmas in Bethlehem is sure to be an even less happy one.

http://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Comment-The-real-threat-to-Palestinian-Christians-is-radical-Islam-438751

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:30 pm

Since the time of the Oslo peace process, violence and persecution against Palestinian Christians has been steadily on the rise. Relations between the Muslims and Christians in the areas under PA control have deteriorated, with thousands of Christians fleeing their holy sites and ancestral properties to live elsewhere. For the Christian population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, life under the thumb of the Islamists threatens their existence as a community and has forced many to flee their homes.

Israel is home to some 150,000 Christians, of which 80% are Arabs, constituting 2.1% of the total population. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that welcomes Christians, offers them freedom of worship and consequently is the one place in the region where the Christian population has grown.

By contrast, the Christian population of the Palestinian territories has declined precipitously from 15 percent in 1950 to less than 2 percent today.

Nablus, home to more than 3,000 Christians just 40 years ago, is now a community of 700.

Tulkaram had a community of 2,000 Christians just 30 years ago, now numbers 12 families. “We are preparing to move abroad to a place where we can live a better life as Christians,” said Reverend Dahoud Dimitry, head of Tulkaram’s Saint George Greek Orthodox Church, which was burned to the ground in the September 2006 riots following the publication of cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers.

The Christian population of Bethlehem, the ancient biblical town that has been the destination for Christian pilgrims for nearly two millennia, has fallen below 20 percent. Christians there still have not forgotten the siege of the 1,400-year-old Church of the Nativity, the sacred birthplace of Jesus, by 100 militiamen loyal to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in 2002. They held dozens hostage, including priests and nuns, desecrated bibles, emptied the church coffers, and lit sections of the centuries-old church on fire. The former mayor of Bethlehem, Hanna Nasser, has said bluntly, “There is no future for Christians.”

Reverend Tomey Dahoud, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Taubus, a city near Jenin, agreed. “The Islamic people want to kill us. That’s their principle and belief. They don’t want Christians in this country. They don’t want to hear our names; they don’t want to see us. That’s the reality.” His church was firebombed in the September 2006 riots.

Even in Ramallah, considered the most liberal city under Palestinian control, threats against Christians are commonplace. Pastor Isa Bajalia, an evangelical Arab-American pastor, living in Ramallah since 1991 with his wife and son, was threatened repeatedly by a Fatah security official from the Tanzim militia. The official tried to bribe Bajalia, demanding $30,000 in turn for protection. As a result of the threats, Bajalia was forced to flee to nearby Jerusalem.

Relations between Palestinian Christians and Muslims have deteriorated in the decade under PA rule. The situation has grown especially precarious in Gaza since Hamas’ rise to power in January 2006, with the imposition of shari’ah, or Islamic, law making life unbearably difficult for Gaza’s Christian population. Attacks against holy sites and individuals has become commonplace since Hamas’ takeover.

In the most recent attack, unknown assailants detonated a bomb outside a Christian school in Gaza City in May 2008. This was not the first bombing of the Zahwa Rosary School, which was previously ransacked in June 2007 during an intense week of fighting that ultimately ended with Hamas’ seizure of power. A school official out into words what many Christians living in Gaza feel: “We don’t feel safe. There’s no security here.” The failure of Hamas to fully investigate these incidences, as well as others in the past, are serious cause for concern for Gaza’s Christian residents.

In January 2008, a convoy of some 400 Christians left Gaza for Bethlehem, and did not plan on returning. Other Christians say they plan to flee once the borders are reopened. About 2,000 Christians remain in Gaza among 1.5 million people Muslims. Most Christians are college-educated professionals who work as engineers, doctors, and merchants, and live in the Rimal section of Gaza City. In the entire Gaza Strip, there are only five small Christian chapels, a Christian school, and a bible store.

In September 2006, seven churches in the West Bank and Gaza were ransacked over the course of three days in revenge for comments made by Pope Benedict XVI regarding Islam, and the publication of the Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed.

In June 2007, Muslim extremists attacked and destroyed the Rosary Sisters School and the Latin Church in Gaza City. The intruders burned copies of the Bible. The increased number of attacks on Gaza’s Christians has caused many to say they fear for their lives. “Christians can’t openly wear their crosses outside. In the streets, because of the pressure, our women have started to cover their heads like the Muslims. Our people have become afraid,” explained Reverend Hanna Massad, pastor of the Gaza Baptist Church. “There is pressure and discrimination on all levels for all of the Christians in Gaza.”

Rami Ayyad owned a religious bookstore in Gaza. He had been involved in numerous charitable organizations and was also a member of the Baptist Church. His store and charity organization, the Bible Society, had been a frequent target of Muslim extremists. A grenade was thrown at the building during protests over the publication of a Danish cartoon that depicted the prophet Mohammed. Ayyad had also received continuous death threats for his perceived missionary work. He was married with two small children, and was just two weeks shy of his 30th birthday when he was found shot in the head and stabbed multiple times 10 hours after he was kidnapped from his store.

One Christian leader expressed his fear after months of increased attacks: “This latest incident is aimed at sending a message to all the Christians here that we must leave. Radical Islamic groups are waging a campaign to get rid of us and no one seems to care.” Many in Gaza’s tiny Christian community, including the Baptist Church’s full-time pastor and twelve of Ayyad’s bookstore employees, fled to the West Bank to escape further violence.

The head of Gaza’s Roman Catholic Church, Rev. Mauel Musallem, said he knows seven families that sold their properties in Gaza and left for safer pastures in the aftermath of Ayyad’s slaying. Fifteen more were preparing to do the same, he said.

Ayyad’s family was again targeted in December 2007, when masked Muslim gunmen attempted to kill his cousin, Nabil Fuad Ayyad, who works at a local church. The group that kidnapped and murdered Rami is said to be responsible for Nabil’s attempted kidnapping as well. Witnesses identified the group as members of the radical Islamic Salafi movement. The movement has become particularly active in the Gaza Strip in the last year. It opposes any Western influence, and refers to Gaza’s Christians as Crusaders who need to be driven from the land.

Gaza’s Christians planned to spend their 2007 Christmas in Bethlehem in the West Bank and keep a low profile. Church celebrations and services in Gaza were either significantly toned down or canceled. Virtually no Christmas trees or decorations were on display. Hamas banned any celebration in Gaza of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, a traditional Christian holiday period. Many who traveled to the West Bank for the holiday did not plan on returning to Gaza.

For Christian women living under Muslim rule, the situation is particularly worrisome. Simply walking down the street without a traditional hijab, or head covering, marks Christian women as outsiders.

Residents of Bethlehem report near-daily occurrences of sexual harassment of Christian women by Muslim men. A Christian man remembered his friend’s daughter returning home after midnight mass on Christmas eve one year, a supposed time of joy and celebration in the town of Jesus’ birth. “…She had red blotches all over her body. They were from the Muslim men who pinched her, and she couldn’t do anything to stop them,” he recalled.

Attacks against woman began as early as 2001, when a former commander of Arafat’s Tanzim militia attempted to rape two Christian teenage sisters from the West Bank village of Beit Jallah. When they tried to refuse him, he murdered them both. The following year, another of Arafat’s commanders in the al-Aksa Bridages raped a Christian woman in Beit Shahur.

In addition to sexual harassment, forced conversion by Muslim men has become more routine. A young 16-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped from her home in Bethlehem in 2007 and brought to a Muslim village near Hebron. When her priest and family finally located her, they found her dressed head to toe in Muslim garb and said she had converted to Islam. A gunfight broke when her family attempted to take her from the house where she was staying. “It was a real war,” said Faise Omar, the father of the man who brought the girl to the village. “It was not just a war over the couple. It was a war between Muslims and Christians.”

Other reports of kidnapping and forced conversion are equally disturbing. A Christian professor, Sana al-Sayegh, who teaches at Palestine Univerity in Gaza City was kidnapped by Hamas militiamen and forced against her will to convert to Islam in June 2007. The President of the university, Dr. Zaher Khail, reportedly assisted the armed gunmen in their operation, as well as Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:32 pm

Staggering evidene which shows up the utter sham sassy tries to claim, when it comes to if the Palestian Muslims treat Christians fairly, as seen its bollocks as they continue to suffer

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:35 pm

I'll put the link up for you shall I?

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/59_ChristiansPA.html

May 2008

I'll take what the Christains say TODAY.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:39 pm

Yeah it needs updating to show how many crimes have been committed.
So I missed the link but its factual and you cannot stomach the facts.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:40 pm

Show me why Israel is not on the list and that the Palestinian territories comes in at number 26?

https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/world-watch-list/

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:44 pm

Well that's easy. It's a USA evangelical christian site, and American ignore all persecution by Israel.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:46 pm

Its a christian site which views the most persecution to christians, so your claim is groundless. Your view is then claiming they ignore based on a opinion you have and no facts.
Pricless and shows how you ignore that it is in the Palestinian territories that christians are persecuted.

The number of Christians is diminishing and the influence of radical Islam is growing. Partly as a result of their influence, Hamas takes Islamizing measures from time to time. Dynamics of Christian persecution in the Palestinian Territories are complex. Christians are squeezed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; their ethnicity entailing many restrictions from the Israeli side and their religion putting them in a minority position within the Palestinian community. Of all types of Christianity present in the Palestinian Territories, Christian converts from a Muslim background are persecuted the most, followed by all local Christian background believers (historical Christians and non-traditional Protestants) in Gaza.

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For the many women in Israeli and Palestinian areas who suffer trauma from violence because of war and persecution because of their gender
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