Christian Horror Stories Highlight 'Medieval' Palestinian Persecution
By Michelle Vu
Christian Post Reporter
Sun, Jul. 22 2007

During a discussion last week about the preservation of the 2,000-year-old Palestinian Christian community, Dr. Justus Weiner, a Scholar in Residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, shared horrifying stories of Christians being persecuted and tortured by Palestinian authorities.

He noted that the population in Bethlehem during the 1940s was estimated to be about 75-80 percent Christian, but now that number has dropped to about 12 percent.

Moreover, the overall Christian population of the whole West Bank has decline to about 1.5-1.7 percent of the total population – or “practically at the point of disappearing,” Weiner said during the talk at the public policy think tank Hudson Institute on Tuesday. the rest