Of late it has become de rigueur to blame Israel for the plight of Palestinian Christians. This has always had the smack of the heavily anti-semitic-but-we-are-not-racist left.It is perhaps better left to the excellent Melanie Phillips to respond:
"Such moral blindness apart, it is truly remarkable that these mindless bigots never pause to ask themselves the obvious question. If it really is Israel that is driving out Bethlehem’s Christians, then why isn’t it equally driving out Bethlehem’s Muslims? Same Israeli ‘occupying’ forces; same separation barrier; same hardship, brutality, economic sanctions etc.' Are we to assume, perhaps, that Israel has a particular problem with Christians, rather than the Muslims or Arabs in general, that the rest of the world has somehow missed?"
LINK: http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/
