T’is the season to blame Israel for the Christian community’s exodus from Bethlehem and the rest of the West Bank. But the Daily Mail gets the story right:
The town’s Christian population has dwindled from more than 85 per cent in 1948 to 12 per cent of its 60,000 inhabitants in 2006.
There are reports of religious persecution, in the form of murders, beatings and land grabs….
The sense of a creeping Islamic fundamentalism is all around in Bethlehem.
Read Elizabeth Day’s full report.
