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To: Garden Rose who wrote (272067)	12/18/2009 8:52:57 PM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bethlehem is under PALESTINIAN CONTROL, not Israeli. And it was MUSLIM MILITANTS who occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, not Israeli. I'm not going to pretend that Israelis and Palestinian Jews love each other. But I would submit that Israel would be VERY CAREFUL in how they treat Christians for fear of alienating American Christian supporters. Additionally, some 40% of the Ottoman Empire was Christian So present some concrete and credible examples of where Israel has been responsible for the mass exodus of Christians, or stop your BS propaganda. According to the census data collected by the Ottoman Empire, the Christian population in 1914 was 40% of the modern-day area consisting of Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey; today it is no more than 5%.[2] The demographics changed largely due to the chronic emigration of Christians and, since the 1970s, their lower birth rates and persecution by Israel and Muslim extremists in the region.[citation needed] In British Mandate Palestine, Christians made up as much as 40% of the population, though some put the figure at 13%.[2] en.wikipedia.org So unless you can credibly assert that Israel is responsible for all that "unreported problems" that caused Christians to flee those other Arab countries, I think the logic stands that for Christians in Muslim lands, oppression and discrimination have been the fallout from the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. It's clearly NOT Israel's fault, nor is it in their vested interest to alienate the very nations it relies upon to prevent their destruction by hostile Arab governments and leadership. Hawk