“Inconvenient Genocide”: An Israeli responds to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East

“Inconvenient Genocide”: An Israeli responds to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East April 8, 2016

 

Mardin monastery
A Syrian Orthodox monastery in the southeastern Turkish town of Mardin, where, unlike their co-believers just a few miles away in Syria and Iraq, Christians are safe for the time being.
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

I have to confess that I’m genuinely astonished at the mild and relatively indifferent response in the West to the harassment, despoliation, rape, and, sometimes, torture and mass slaughter of ancient Christian communities in the Near East.

 

Here’s an Israeli Jewish perspective on the situation:

 

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0416/glick040816.php3

 

Thanks to Chrystine Heward Reynolds for alerting me to this article.

 

 


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