Programmet väckte stor uppmärksamhet delvis för att Israels USA ambassadör på förhand kritiserade programmet och hur de kristna palestiniernas situation vinklades.
Som en kommentar till programmet har David Parsons, ICEJ:s Media Director skrivit en artikel:
Parson konstaterar att under de senaste generationerna har ca 60 % av de kristna palestinska araberna flyttat utomlands.
Men faktum är att ca 60% av den libanesiska kristna befolkningen också lever utanför Libanon.
De kristna i Irak har flytt i en sån omfattning att de assyriska kristna har minskat från 1,5 miljoner till ca 250.000.
Efter den "arabiska våren" har även de koptiska kristna i Egypten flyttat utomlands i en allt större utsträckning.
Kristna flyttar alltså bort från arabländerna i Mellanöstern och det kan man inte skylla på Israel.
David Parson:
"So it is indisputable that Arab Christians are fleeing all across the
Middle East, and surely the Israeli occupation is not to blame. Rather,
this flight has been primarily due to local conflicts and the rise of
Islamic militancy, as noted by Ambassador Oren, and the Palestinian
Christians are no exception to this trend. The lone exception, in fact,
happens to be the state of Israel, the only place in the entire region
where Arab Christians are growing in number and are afforded their
democratic rights.
Still, some Palestinian clerics insist that Muslims and Christians would co-exist in perfect harmony if not for the Jews and their settlements. That, sadly, is a living portrait of a people in denial. How else to explain that Palestinian Christian flight from the Holy Land predates the “occupation” by decades?
For instance, the last British census in 1948 recorded 29,000 Arab Christians living in Jerusalem, while the first Israeli census in eastern Jerusalem in 1967 found only 11,000. That means two-thirds of the Arab Christian population had fled during the 19 years of the Jordanian occupation of east Jerusalem.
The real root of the current exodus actually lies in the historic interplay between Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Middle East ever since the Islamic conquests began in the seventh century. The region’s Christians and Jews became dhimmis – suppressed minorities living under Muslim dominance. They could keep their faith but had to accept second-class status. To survive, both communities adopted a code of silence which dictated that they never challenge the system nor say anything bad about Islam in public."
Still, some Palestinian clerics insist that Muslims and Christians would co-exist in perfect harmony if not for the Jews and their settlements. That, sadly, is a living portrait of a people in denial. How else to explain that Palestinian Christian flight from the Holy Land predates the “occupation” by decades?
For instance, the last British census in 1948 recorded 29,000 Arab Christians living in Jerusalem, while the first Israeli census in eastern Jerusalem in 1967 found only 11,000. That means two-thirds of the Arab Christian population had fled during the 19 years of the Jordanian occupation of east Jerusalem.
The real root of the current exodus actually lies in the historic interplay between Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Middle East ever since the Islamic conquests began in the seventh century. The region’s Christians and Jews became dhimmis – suppressed minorities living under Muslim dominance. They could keep their faith but had to accept second-class status. To survive, both communities adopted a code of silence which dictated that they never challenge the system nor say anything bad about Islam in public."
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