N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
I don't think you're one to be throwing around aspersions on other peoples intelligence, Beave.
In fact, how'd you like to try something novel? How'd you like to actually learn something.
Here's one from the left.
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-new ... s/1.830920A Glimpse Into the Life of the West Bank's Last ChristiansTry something you've never done before. Read the whole article. Learn that this idea you have there are these monster mobs of "Palestinian Christians" raging to join the Muslims in their next intifada is nonsense. They're a sad tiny remnant of the Holy Land doing whatever they have to, to hang on or get out.
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Rafat Alsoos has seen most of his Palestinian family and friends leave the West Bank since 2000, echoing the exodus of Arab Christians from the Middle East. To compound matters, he’s also the only pig farmer in an area that’s increasingly Muslim
They can be pitied perhaps, but not held up as an example of strength in alliance to the Palestinian cause of the Islamics.
This idea you have where Muslims are kind of the Melissa Click of Palestine calling for some 'muscle over here' with Palestinian Christians running to comply is ridiculous. It's stupid. Pushing it is a little more stupid than a joke meme.
You really should read the articles you link as they don’t support your made-up narrative:
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....Christians comprised about 11 percent of the overall population of Ottoman Palestine (including present-day Israel, Gaza and the West Bank) in 1900. That number has since dwindled to 1.7 percent, he writes.
The most significant drop, according to the study, came in 1948-49 during the Israeli War of Independence (what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba – Arabic for catastrophe). That’s when the Christian population in the Holy Land dropped from 8 to 2.3 percent, Raheb notes.
Raheb writes that Christian flight was accelerated by the violence of the second intifada, which broke out in the fall of 2000 and lasted till early 2005.
In Beit Jala, whose borders include land that is under Israeli control, city officials say Christian emigration has increased in recent years because some families lost their agricultural land after it was expropriated by Israel to build the West Bank separation barrier.
....According to a Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture survey published earlier this month, 28 percent of West Bank Christians said they would emigrate today if they had the opportunity and 24 percent of Muslims said the same, citing lack of hope for peace and a lack of jobs.[
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A large sign hangs from the front of Beit Jala’s town hall, next to a giant, decorated Christmas tree covered in white and silver and green ornaments, proclaiming: “Jerusalem will always be the eternal capital of Palestine.”
Alsoos says high unemployment in the West Bank coupled with the security situation is the reason people he knows and loves have left.