Word From Y'erushalaim
Simantov Allalouf
uziel16@netvision.net.il
 

Jerusalem-Bethlehem Border
 
Amazingly the world media will rarely ever report the kinds of things that take place regularly in the PA areas. Public executions of people that co-operate with Israel is common place in the PA areas. As well as honor killings. Their only hope is Yeshua, please continue to hold up the arab people in Israel, they need to know the Lord.
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BETHLEHEM TORN BY MUSLIM, CHRISTIAN STRIFE
Abduction of Girl Sparks Christian Protests

Sectarian tensions are boiling over in Bethlehem after members of a local Christian family accused a Muslim man of kidnapping their 16-year-old daughter.

The girl, who holds American citizenship, was rescued with the help of American diplomats over the weekend from a hideaway house belonging to a large Muslim clan in Hebron and flown with her mother to the United States.
The Jerusalem Post reports that at least 35 Christians have been injured by Palestinian Authority policemen during ensuing protests outside the Muslim abductor's home in Bethlehem. PA police have disregarded Christian calls for his arrest and trial, saying the girl wanted to marry him and to convert to Islam.

Since the PA assumed control of Bethlehem in late 1995, the local Christian minority has complained of daughters being kidnapped and forced to marry Muslim men, and of Muslims and even PA officials stealing Christian lands, among other discriminatory practices that the PA routinely ignores.

Christian families are worried at the continuing Christian flight from Bethlehem and the deliberate targeting of Christian girls for Muslim marriages. "We have nothing against Muslims, but we are worried that we are becoming a tiny minority in the birthplace of Jesus," said a Christian businessman.

The incident in Bethlehem comes only days after a Christian man from Ramallah brutally murdered his 20-year-old daughter because she had expressed her desire to marry a Muslim - a shockingly rare case of Christian "honor killing." She was murdered on the same day that a Jerusalem Arab man strangled to death his two sisters in a similar incident.

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