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hyperbola5 months, 4 weeks ago
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And, of course, we should never forget that Jerusalem had a Christian majority until the zionists ethnic cleansed them.
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Palestinian Christians: An Historic Community at Risk
... over 50 percent of Jerusalem’s Christians were expelled from their West Jerusalem homes, the largest single numerical decline of Christians in Palestine in history. Hadawi’s study concluded that in Jerusalem a higher proportion of Palestinian Christians became refugees after 1949, a ratio of 37 percent of Christians to 17 percent of the Muslims. The higher ratio of Christians was due in part to the fact that the majority lived in the wealthier western Jerusalem districts seized by Israel during 1948-49. Further, approximately 34 percent of the lands seized by Israel were owned by Palestinian Christian churches, and they were simply taken by force with no compensation given to the previous owners. ...
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfu...
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