Catholic Bishop William Kenney writes: “I have just returned from visiting two of the largest "open prisons" in the world - Bethlehem and the Gaza strip.”

Does he describe them as open prisons because they contain so many terrorist criminals? Or people who support the aims of criminals and vote for them?

One might suspect that after reading the brave and honest statements of Palestinian Christians, who are being persecuted by their Muslim neighbours.

Samir Qumsiyeh, one of the few Christians willing to speak about this, has been the subject of numerous death threats and his house was recently attacked with fire-bombs.

He said a monk was recently roughed up for trying to prevent a group of Muslim men from seizing lands owned by Christians in Beit Sahur. Thieves have targeted the homes of many Christian families and a "land mafia" has succeeded in laying its hands on vast areas of land belonging to Christians, he added.

Fuad and Georgette Lama woke up one morning last September to discover that Muslims from a nearby village had fenced off their family's six-dunam plot in the Karkafa suburb south of Bethlehem. "A lawyer and an official with the Palestinian Authority just came and took our land," said 69-year-old Georgette Lama.

The couple was later approached by senior PA security officers who offered to help them kick out the intruders from the land. "We paid them $1,000 so they could help us regain our land," she said, almost in tears. "Instead of giving us back our land, they simply decided to keep it for themselves. They even destroyed all the olive trees and divided the land into small plots, apparently so that they could offer each for sale." When her 72-year-old husband, Fuad, went to the land to ask the intruders to leave, he was severely beaten and threatened with guns.

Does Bishop Kenney speak out on behalf of fellow Christians such as these, victims of such cruelty and injustice? No.

He writes: “I am one of more than 15 Roman Catholic Bishops, from Europe and North America, who have visited the Holy Land every year, for the past six years, to support the Catholic Bishops of the region.”. Catholic Bishops – like agenda-driven, Israel-hating Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah - not ordinary Christians.

Kenney appears unable to distinguish between the Muslim majority and the oppressed Christian minority and lumps them all together, blaming the Jews for their woes.

Do you believe the story you hear straight from the horse’s mouth – that of the Christian Arab victim? Or the story you hear from the facial orifice of the other fellow?