As I said before, Christians are not invaders in the Holy Land, they have every right to be there, since they've been there for 2000 years. For example, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has been there since the first century. Whereas the vast majority of Israeli Jews are recent arrivals from Europe.
I’d love to give that protection to them, despite this checkered history of theirs,
I'm glad you recent arrivals are so gracious to people who have been there for 2000 years.
I never said that Christians were invaders in the Land of Israel. The Muslims who call themselves Palestinians are.
Christians of some sort or other may have been in Israel for a long time, but it’s utter balderdash to claim that the Christians presently living in Israel are direct descendants of the apostles, or that the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem is practicing the same religion that the first church established there with that office did. For one thing, the language spoken in that first Church was not Greek, and it had nothing whatever to do with the Byzantine empire later embodied in the Greek Church. For another, they did not worship Jesus as a god, and kept all the 613 mitzvot. You seem to have no trouble understanding that the vast majority of Jews coming from Europe and the Middle East were not in Israel for the past 1,800 years, but have a problem wrapping your mind around the fact that the few Christians living in Israel at the time that our return started were also not.
“I’m glad you recent arrivals are so gracious to people who have been there for 2000 years.”
To people who joined Muslims in pogroms and terrorism against us for the past 100 years? Yeah. We’re pretty forgiving about that. I mean, what Christian or Muslim nation didn’t over the past 2000 years, either in or out of Israel. But one thing I don’t forgive is people who waste my time. Go ahead with your next non-sequiter. I’m no longer listening. Alas! Babble on.