What bull; that's Standard leftist anti-Israel crap that says that Israelis destroy houses because their tenants aren't the right race or religion. Arabs even serve in the Israeli legislature and can seek compensation if they' believe their property was destroyed unjustly. Can the same be true for Fatah or any Arab governments? I'd laugh if the insinuation weren't so sad and ludicrous.
Where was your outrage when Jewish property around the Arab world was confiscated after the 48 war?
“What bull; that’s Standard leftist anti-Israel crap that says that Israelis destroy houses because their tenants aren’t the right race or religion.”
Here’s just one of many accounts of Palestinian Christians
From Stephen Sizer (1999):
Bishara Awad : Bethlehem Bible College
“I also visited an old friend, Bishara Awad, the Principal of Bethlehem Bible College. Bishara is a father figure, gracious, patient, yet this time, when we met, he was clearly distressed. The story he shared typifies the reasons why peace is so elusive and why many Palestinians are sceptical of ever seeing the Oslo agreement implemented. “Tony is a student of the College. He loves the Lord. He is a Christian. All his family are Christians. The family own a piece of land on the outskirts of Bethlehem which they bought in 1924. One day the family went to work on their land and found a bulldozer opening up a new road into their land near the edge of the Neve Daniel settlement. When they tried to stop the bulldozer, the Israeli settlers took Tony’s brother to the police station. He was not released until he signed a document promising never to go back to his land again. This has naturally been very disturbing for the family. It’s not strange for us because it is happening all the time. But this is something near to our hearts and to our students. It happened just two weeks ago. All we could do as a College is have a prayer right on the land. We prayed for peace, for justice. We prayed for the settlers, that the Lord would give them a soft heart, that they would not take someone else’s land.”
I personally have heard similar stories from a friend of mine and my relatives, all U.S. Christians who lived there for years.