Reply #13: It's basically anti-Christian ethnic cleansing

[HamdenRice]

There was a long article in the NY Times magazine a few years ago about how Israelis are also driving Christians out of Bethlehem, the center of Christian culture in Israel/Palestine. Although the Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches have a big presence in Israel/Palestine and a lot of property that is at risk of confiscation and is being confiscated, in terms of population and a functioning community, the majority of Christians there are Arab Christians, and the center of their community is Bethlehem on the West Bank -- and most Arab Christians support the Palestinian leadership. In fact, some of Arafat's most influential and pragmatic advisors are Christian Arabs.

The ethnic cleansing reached a fever peak around the time a few years ago that PLO fighters took refuge in the shrine at Bethlehem and the Israeli army was basically going to blow up Christianity's holiest site.

It is amazing to me that the Israel-first lobby in America has so snookered Christo-fascist fundamentalist idiots into blindly supporting Israel while that state basically treats its own Christians like sub-humans.