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Old 03-05-2008, 01:44 AM   #32
ssupermegatone

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I was two language classes short of having a double minor in Middle Eastern Studies when I graduated college, so I have been dealing with Christians in the Middle East for a while.
I know that Palestinian Christians, thats right, some of those suffering Palestinians aren't Muslims but are Christians, are suffering right along with the other Palestinians. As for specific stories, I don't have any official stories that I can share with you. But, I know that the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem has been cheated out of land with by the goverment there. There have been several instances of spitting on our Priests by Israelis and similar problems like that as well.
I dont remeber the exact circumstances but maybe 5 years or so back there was an incident where Muslim "terrorists" were hiding out in a Church. It was an Armenian Church, and the Armenian Paper that had interviews from the Priests of that Church painted a totally different picture than the American news agencies.
If I come across specific information on Christians in Israel/Palestine I will defiantly let you know.
As for Lebanon, things are best understood by a article in the paper here last week. A shepherd in Southern Lebanon stepped on an Israeli cluster minor in southern Lebanon. The shepherd's son died last summer from stepping on a cluster mine. If you don't know, after bombing all sorts of civilian targets during the summer was 2 years ago, the Israeli military dumped about as many cluster minds as they could on Southern Lebanon during the closing days of the war, knowing full well, that this weapon, which I am pretty sure is banned by the UN, would inflict innumerable civilian casualties.
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