Sirhan Sirhan is a Palestinian Christian for what that’s worth, and he murdered RFK because he was furious over Kennedy’s vocal support for Israel in the 1968 campaign.
I thought Sirhan probably had been a recent immigrant at the time he killed RFK but he actually had lived in SoCal since 1956. A friend of mine knew him from Santa Anita Racetrack where they both had worked as stablehands. He said Sirhan was very quiet and never really talked to his coworkers.
Is he still alive?
The relations between Jewish and Christian citizens (particularly Arab citizens) of Israel has come a long way from the late 1960s.
In that day, there were a lot more Christian Arabs in purely Arabic neighborhoods. As the Christian Arabs got more affluent, they moved to largely Jewish neighborhoods (because crime and religious persecution of Christians is bad in Arab neighborhoods). So you inevitably become more friendly.
There was also a weird kind of Stockholm syndrome among Christian Arabs when they lived among Muslim Arabs. They had to prove their “Arabness” by being more hostile to Jews than Muslim Arabs. This largely faded a generation ago.
Anyway, Sirhan was a product of his time.
The only real beefs I’m personally aware of is:
(1) constant tension among the Armenians in Jerusalem with certain of the local Hasidic factions (who hate everyone that is not them, including Jews). A lot of this has to do with the drug trade and who controls what (on both sides).
(2) in the same area, there are Jews for Jesus people who (allegedly) lie about being Jewish and mix among Hasids. I really don’t understand the disputes, but I’m sure it’s some combination of Hasids calling them heretics and general anger at pretending to be something you are not. Me, I think people need to not worry what other people do or believe.