Gaza Baptist Church sustains damage in Israeli air strike
An Israeli air strike at Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip seriously damaged Gaza Baptist Church on New Year's Day. The Israeli offensive -- launched Dec. 27 after a week in which more than 200 rockets struck southern Israel from the Gaza Strip -- illustrates the failure of the "land for peace" strategy in the Middle East, say two Israeli commentators. A leading Southern Baptist observer called the situation a "human tragedy" and "squandered opportunity."
Windows were blown out at Gaza Baptist Church when Israeli aircraft attacked a police station across the street, according to a report from the BosNews service. In 2007, the six-story church was commandeered by fighters with the Palestinian Fatah faction as a lookout station during the civil war in Gaza between Fatah and Hamas....
Guiness, the Israel government has usually been too liberal in it's treatment of Muslim behavior. The hate literature and behavior in Muslim schools the cutting off of legs of mayors in the towns that Israel nominally controlled at one time by Muhammadans, so hardly perfect. But from the article, The Beleaguered Christians of The Palestinian-Controlled Areas and from the articles what has happened to non-Muslims in Iraq, there is this interesting and rather long article about Dhimmitude Dhimmitude and The Doyen. A sad advertisement on the left side of the article by the way.
Hey Mike, good to see you back on here, haven't seen you posting here for a long time .... but I do occasionally look up your blog and remember the work there.
I was responding to the positive and unsupported inference by Jim Lincoln that it would be good for the Christians to have specifically Israeli-style "law and order". I think that inference is what needs support.
I don't have time to do the research now but back in the early 90's I well remember the self-same pro-Israeli style western Christians (ICEJ, CFI, PFI etc) lamenting the Intifada and the decimation of the Palestinian Christian population. An example I remember given at the time was the size of the Christian population of Bethlehem. It seems the pro-Israeli Christians have short memories of the time of their own preferred rule now that times have changed .....
Law and order is good, but the Israelis singularly failed to provide it to the Palestinian people.
Under the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza up to the Oslo peace accords the nominally Christian population amongst the Palestinian people mostly emigrated or worse were assimilated or intimidated into Islam. I don't think you will find many Christians (both nominal and real) who have a great affinity for the Israeli occupation and the protection that it offered, but you may find the odd one ....
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christopher000 from rhode island: "mike wrote:
'let me guess, she would also deny..."
