As Christmas Lights Go Out in the Muslim Middle East, They Burn Brightly in Israel

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***Palestinian terrorism today . . .

At 4:30 pm this afternoon, there was a bulldozer (car ramming) attack targeting Border Guards in Silwad. No Israelis were wounded; the terrorist was shot and killed.

There have been “rock” throwing assaults at Bethel, Neve Tzuf, Bethany, Yabad, Beit Ummar, Halhul, Hebron Hills, and many other places throughout Judea and Samaria.

Perhaps the most interesting “rock” attack occurred near Kiryat Arba in the Hebron area where a bus carrying Hebrew University supporters of the anti-IDF group “Breaking the Silence” was attacked by rock throwing Palestinian terrorists. Three women on the bus were wounded by shattered glass. The people on the bus had to be rescued by . . . you guessed it . . . soldiers of the IDF.

Hamas fired 12 “test” missiles out of Gaza into the Mediterranean in the last hour–as part of its preparations for the next war with Israel.

***Numerous demonstrations continue in support of the imprisoned Jewish teenaged suspects in the Duma arson attack.

These “signs” have been put up all over Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem. The sign has 9 government officials that the protesters blame for the arrest of the teenagers. Across the top of the sign from right to left are PM Netanyahu, “Defense” Minister Moshe Ya’alon, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett. The word in red across the bottom of each picture is “GUILTY.”

Yesterday saw large gatherings at the Chords Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem, and at the homes of Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked and Nissan Slomiansky–all of whom have expressed support for the interrogation techniques used by the Shin Bet to try to extract confessions from the teenagers.

TODAY’S BLOG:

It was a seemingly small event today, but one that is representative of what Muslims are doing to Christians across the Middle East.

Islamic activists burned a Christmas tree that had been put up in Zababde, one of the few Christian majority settlements left in the Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria.

Zababde, located between Jenin and Shechem, has a population of about 3000 residents, 66% of which are Christian. This may seem like a high percentage, but back in 1948 the percentage was 90%.  Slowly, inexorably, the Muslim population of Zababde is proportionately increasing. 

Nevertheless, Zababde is an anomaly. Only between 1% to 2% of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria are now Christian, while less than 1% of Gazans are Christians (exact numbers are unavailable because of the unreliability of Palestinian censuses).

These ever-dwindling percentages reflect what is happening throughout the Middle East. Intimidated and forced out by Muslims, Christians are fleeing elsewhere, or being killed.

In 1900, approximately 20% of the Arabs in the Middle East were Christian; today only 4% are. Even in countries which have traditionally had large Christian populations, the Christian population has dropped precipitously. For example, the percentage of Christians in Lebanon has dropped from 78% in 1900 to 34% today. In Iraq, the percentage of Christians is only 4%, and Syria has lost 30% of its Christians since the Syrian war began (500,000 of its estimated 1.5 million).

Interestingly, as the Christian population of the Palestinian areas and the Middle East has plummeted, the Christian population of Israel has tripled since 1948 to a current population of more than 160,000. 

Israel is the only place in the Middle East today where Christians are free to practice their faith without fear of intimidation and death.

And yet, isn’t it ironic that as the lights of Christianity are extinguished in countries all around Israel many self-described “Christian humanitarian groups” throughout the world focus their entire “humanitarian” efforts on castigating Israel.

It is beyond understanding.