Christian Attitudes

Link: http://www.hcef.org/hcef/index.cfm/mod/news/ID/16/SubMod/NewsView/NewsID/1511.cfm

Unlike some Church groups, Aid to the Church in Need doesn’t blame Israel for the problems of Christian Palestinians. Instead, the blame is placed squarely where it belongs – Hamas.

Life goes from 'bad to worse' for Holy Land Christians, says charity

The situation has deteriorated for minority Christians living in the Palestinian territories since the Islamist organization Hamas took control of the Palestinian legislature, according to a Roman Catholic charity report. "Life has turned 'from bad to worse' since a Palestinian election in January which Hamas won," the Aid to the Church in Need charity published in a report based on accounts from Palestinians living in Bethlehem, the city in which Jesus was born in the area on the West Bank (of the River Jordan).

‘Christian’ Aid would blame the Jews, of course, not the real villains.

Surprisingly, perhaps, the Presbyterian news service has picked up the story and gives a fuller version of it here.

But since Hamas’ election there has been a spate of violence against Christians, including arson attacks against a parish school in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and other violent incidents against churches and Christian charities. It is not known whether the culprits are Palestinian gangs opposed to Hamas or supporters of the movement.

Note the unusual absence of Israelis from the suggested suspects?