then i agree with the writer but it was more Israel criticism then i thought it would be, its still an american TV station and the incident at the embassy shows me that a more critic report never would been broadcasted.

Spin it like you want, buddy, but we actually have polls about Palestinian Christian opinion, and they don’t support the tale you trying to tell. According to the Palestinian Lutheran group Diya, 0.8% of fleeing Christians say anything about Muslims being the reason for their leaving Palestine.

That Christians are (at least according to you) increasingly ill-represented in Palestinian groups may be only because of their shrinking numbers, not because of any change in their status as members of Palestinian society. In any event, the PLO is still there, with a fair number of Christian members, and not committed with any religionist agenda. It is a secular group by definition, though Israel’s enabling of Hamas in past decades did weaken secular militancy.

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@F CALLEN

Go to the following link. A Palestiniasn Christian woman has the answer:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577277833517609876.html

“I am one of those Palestinian Christians that Mr. Oren refers to, who live inside Israel. At no time in my life have I ever felt the “respect and appreciation” by the Jewish state which Mr. Oren so glowingly refers to in his last paragraph. Israel’s Christian minority is marginalized in much the same manner as its Muslim one, or at best, quietly tolerated. We suffer the same discrimination when we try to find a job, when we go to hospitals, when we apply for bank loans and when we get on the bus. In my daily dealings with the state, all I have felt is rudeness and overt contempt.

Fida Jiryis”

Leen, it is great that the Catholic school preaches Palestinian unity to its mostly Muslim student body. I would certainly prefer the Palestinian movement to be as influenced by secular and Christian elements as possible, however looking at election results, fighting methods, leaderships, regional trends and the simple fact of the massive departure of the Christians it is simply impossible to avoid the conclusion that Christians have been marginalized and have chosen to withdraw abroad.

Source:
Israel’s Purging of Palestinian Christians
http://www.jkcook.net/Articles2/0294.htm

I did not see it as a serious attempt to get the facts right. I saw it as an attempt to get some wiggle-room to do a story that gave something less than fawning praise for Israel

I don’t know whether this should make me happier or more depressed.

And quite frankly, it makes me sick when people imply a divide and conquer technique to this society. Whether it is internally or externally. Palestinian Christians are not marginalized, nor are they caught in the middle.. yes they are the minority and as a result you won’t see them being dominant in certain groups.

Plus Israeli occupational aggression has always been on Palestinian Christians and Muslims, they have bombed churches and mosques alike (as well as the Nativity church), they have destroyed muslim and christian houses, and they have lumped them in the same category ‘non-jews’.

Some of the most active and passionate people t about the Palestinian cause that I know are Christians.