Reply #30: I have a lot of other sources including The Guardian, which

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I'll post later. There have been many troubling incidents, which may become more numerous and acute if Hamas decides to impose sharia law.

I do agree that a lot of the problems confronting Palestinian Christians are the same ones that confront everybody else in this neighborhood, namely the stresses of conflict and war. This can't be seen as a normal situation.

Even so I think there's a troubling tendency in recent years, toward more religious extremism rather than less. I'm not sure this is caused by the political situation, or if it's actually contributing to it.

Probably, it's a bit of both. We're seeing the same tendencies elsewhere, so this isn't a phenomenon related strictly to I/P.

As far as the situation of Christian communities throughout the Middle East, look at the Copts, the Maronites, the Armenians, or the Christians who are under severe attack in the Sudan. Israel isn't involved at all in those areas, nor in Nigeria, or in the far East, where Christians have been attacked. So I don't think you can dismiss my sources out of hand if you look at the big picture.

Also, I don't see why faith-based sources are necessarily bad sources in matters of faith. The Christian community, like the Jewish and Muslim communities, or the Hindu and Buddhist communities, etc, keeps track of attacks on their brethren, which might not necessarily make the mainstream news. So I certainly wouldn't dismiss them out of hand.