Because the OT was not a realty deed.



Christians -- not particularly the Palestinian

ones, though -- have a a lot to answer for.

How about making them answer for it?

Name it--we'll answer

This article, to put it mildly spins the truth. The growth of Christians in Israel proper is due to two factors: 1. Russian immigrants bringing in Christian relatives and 2. A growing immigrant workforce.



Also, in all the crocodile tears the Post sheds for the Christians in Beit Jala, they forget to mention that Gilo, the "Jewish neighborhood" next door, was built on land siezed (read: stolen) from the residents of Beit Jala and nearby Beit Sahour[?]. The nutball settlers have carried out attacks on Christians just as violently as they have Muslims. If Israel treats its Christian population any better than its neighbors, it's mainly because it has two concerns: a secular tradition and keeping the sugar flowing in from Uncle Sam.



The PLO, for all of its all too evident faults (corruption, thuggery, etc.), is not anti-Christian. An essentially Ba'athist movement, it's historically relied on Arab Christians for its intellectual firepower. In fact, it's far more secular in its approach than even Israel, which outright bans any party that dares to question Israel's Jewish-friendly constitution. They are, obviously, much better than Hamas or Islamic Jihad--both of which, I remind you, started out as Israeli operations.

If Christians hadn't spent centuries making Jews into undermenschen, there would have been no need for a homeland. They could have lived comfortably as distinct small communities within the larger one, the way Parsees did in India.



Even if the Jews themselves yearned for a homeland, no Gentiles would have felt them justified and there would have been no political reason to award them somebody else's land.



It wasn't Jews that made Europe unlivable for Jews, it was Christians. The Jews couldn't stay and they had no place to go.



An insoluble problem. Some mistakes are so bad that no amount of ingenuity can rectify them.

Derek - The PLO is anti-liberty, which amounts to being anti-Christian, as it removes all the space for Christian practice. It's ironic that you cite Israel's limitations upon political parties as a point of inferiority to the PLO, when the PLO allows no opposition and murders its opponents.

PJ--Being anti-liberty is being anti-Christian? Boy, that would come as a surprise to most of the Christians who lived throughout history, and without what you would consider liberty. At any rate, I do agree that the PLO has some serious problems. That's really not my argument. My main point was that they are not specifically anti-Christian. My main beef, though, is with the article's assumption that Israel is some kind of saint when it comes to dealing with native Christians. She ain't. At best, she's better than her neighbors within Israel proper, but utterly indistinguishable, if not worse at times, within her occupied territories.

I'd like to know more about Christian Slavs moving to Israel. First I've heard of it.