11honderd schreef:
Hoe komt het toch dat er in de Palestijnse gebieden nog maar een verwaarloosbaar aantal christenen woont, na WO2 was dat nog 20%. In Zuid-Libanon zijn in de burgeroorlog 100.000 maronieten omgekomen, 600.000 zijn er verdreven. Nu is het in handen van extremistische moslims.
Ik weet zelf niet waarom het aantal Christenen na WO2 zo enorm is afgenomen maar ik dacht waarom probeer ik het niet te vinden via Google. Ik heb de zoekterm 'christians in palestina' ingevoerd en ben ondermeer op de volgende sites gestuit:
1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Christians"In a 2007 letter from Congressman Henry Hyde to President George W. Bush, Hyde stated that "the Christian community is being crushed in the mill of the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict" and that expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were "irreversibly damaging the dwindling Christian community."[14][15]
Most Christians in Gaza blame the Israeli occupation pre-2005, the current siege on the city and the war on Gaza 2009 to be the reason for their Exodus from Gaza. During the recent war on Gaza, two churches, Baptist and Catholic, were slightly damaged by Israeli shelling, and many Christians including 15 year old Christine Turk [16], lost their lives during the Gaza offensive. There had been reported attacks on Palestinian Christians in Gaza from small Muslim extremist groups, most notably Ramy Ayyad, but Gaza Pastor Manuel Musallam doubts the attacks were religiously motivated[17]"
"Armenians in Jerusalem, identified as Palestinian Christians, have also been attacked and received threats from Israeli and Jewish extremists. In September, two Armenian Christian clergy were expelled after protesting against Jewish extremists for spitting on holy Christian objects.[20]"
'In December 2009, prominent Palestinian Christian leaders released a historical document, the Kairos Palestine Document. The document declares the Israeli occupation on Muslim and Christian Palestinian land as a "sin against God". It calls on churches and Christians all over the world to consider it and adopt it and to call for the boycott of Israel. The Palestinian Christian document claims that leading Israel into isolation is the only way there can be a peaceful solution in the Holy Land. The isolation of Israel will be pressure on Israel to abolish all apartheid laws that discriminate against Palestinians and non-Jews.' [zie verder hieronder bij 3. Kairos Palestine document]
2.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40241"Asked if Christians in Gaza feel singled out or oppressed, Musallam says, "Palestinian Christians are not a religious community set apart in some corner. They are part of the Palestinian people."
En omdat ik 'Inter Press Service News Agency' niet kende, heb ik proberen op te zoeken wat voor club dat is. Via Wikipedia [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_Press_Service ] 'IPS is registered as an international not-for-profit association. It has 'general' NGO consultative status with ECOSOC at the United Nations, and the OECD status of ”ODA eligible international organization".'
3. Kairos Palestine document
http://www.oikoumene.org/fileadmin/files/wcc-main/2009pdfs/Kairos%20Palestine_En.pdf'1. The reality on the ground
1.1 “They say: 'Peace, peace' when there is no peace” (Jer. 6:14). These days,
everyone is speaking about peace in the Middle East and the peace process. So far,
however, these are simply words; the reality is one of Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territories, deprivation of our freedom and all that results from this situation:
1.1.1 The separation wall erected on Palestinian territory, a large part of which
has been confiscated for this purpose, has turned our towns and villages into prisons,
separating them from one another, making them dispersed and divided cantons. Gaza,
especially after the cruel war Israel launched against it during December 2008 and
January 2009, continues to live in inhuman conditions, under permanent blockade and
cut off from the other Palestinian territories .
1.1.2 Israeli settlements ravage our land in the name of God and in the name of
force, controlling our natural resources, including water and agricultural land, thus
depriving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and constituting an obstacle to any
political solution.
1.1.3 Reality is the daily humiliation to which we are subjected at the military
checkpoints, as we make our way to jobs, schools or hospitals.
1.1.4 Reality is the separation between members of the same family, making
family life impossible for thousands of Palestinians, especially where one of the
spouses does not have an Israeli identity card.
1.1.5 Religious liberty is severely restricted; the freedom of access to the holy
places is denied under the pretext of security. Jerusalem and its holy places are out of
bounds for many Christians and Muslims from the West Bank and the Gaza strip.
Even Jerusalemites face restrictions during the religious feasts. Some of our Arab
clergy are regularly barred from entering Jerusalem'
Ik kan moeilijk de hele declaratie hier gaan kopieren dus ik zou zeggen lees de link.
Uit bovenstaande punten komt in mijn ogen naar voren dat ook de Palestijnse Christenen vinden dat:
1. Israeli's Palestijnse gebieden bezetten
2. de Palestijnen onder onmenselijke omstandigheden moeten leven
3. Israelische nederzettingen voorkomen dat Palestijnen de beschikking hebben tot water en landbouwgrond
4. door de strikte Israelische maatregelen familie's uit elkaar worden gereten en
5. dat er geen vrijheid van geloofsbelijdenis bestaat.
punt 1.3 van het Kairos Palestine document beantwoordt de vraag waarom het aantal Christenen in Palestina is afgenomen: 'Emigration is another element in our reality. The absence of any vision or
spark of hope for peace and freedom pushes young people, both Muslim and Christian,
to emigrate. Thus the land is deprived of its most important and richest resource –
educated youth. The shrinking number of Christians, particularly in Palestine, is one of
the dangerous consequences, both of this conflict, and of the local and international
paralysis and failure to find a comprehensive solution to the problem.'
4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QHzuYcuIQYPalestinian Christians have difficulty to getting to churches on sunday morning if they wanted to come to Jerusalem. Because they don't have that permission or that legal right according to the Israeli government to come to Jerusalem to worship.' [Douglas Dicks van Catholic Relief Services rond 1 minuut 13 seconden].
Ik ben bewust weggebleven van sites die 'free palestina' banners vertoonden aangezien ik dan niet het gevoel heb dat daar men enigzins gekleurd naar de situatie kan kijken.
Daarnaast benadruk ik dat ik geen mohammedaan ben maar een protestants opgevoed en gelovige. Daarnaast ben ik ook niet anti-semitische. Ik probeerde alleen maar een antwoord te vinden op een vraag die ook mij interesse wekte. Daarbij heb ik het niet over Joden maar gebruik ik zelf de term Israeli/Israelisch(e).