Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem

Israel National News ^ | March 22 2011 | Gil Ronen

[NJ_Tom]

The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a "sharp demographic shift" in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city's total population today.

It is estimated that, for the past seven years, more than one thousand Christians have been emigrating from the Bethlehem area annually and that only 10,000 to 13,000 Christians remain in the city. International human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, who teaches at Hebrew University, told the Jerusalem Institute for Global Jewish Affairs that, under the PA-Fatah regime, Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims.

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Thanks for the ping. Christians should be designated an endangered species.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Months ago National Geographic did a cover story about the Christians of Bethlehem and implied that Israeli policies were driving them out.

The truth hurts, NG, doesn’t it?

NG has turned far-left over the years and has become politicized to the point that it has lost its objectivity on some stories.