Last week, Hizballah fired a rocket at a church in northern Israel, injuring an elderly Christian civilian. The terrorists then fired another as soldiers rushed to the rescue, injuring nine of them. Bassam Tawil compares the way church leaders have responded to this incident to the condemnations—including from the pope—following the deaths of two Palestinian Christians in Gaza, even though no evidence emerged to back up the accusation that the IDF was responsible.
As of this writing, no Christian leader had anything to say about Hizballah’s missile attack on a church. . . . Where were the pope and other Christian organizations, one wonders, when Christians living under the terrorist group Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, were being systematically targeted and persecuted?
During the volatile period of 2006–2008 in the Gaza Strip, Islamist terrorists murdered Rami Ayyad, a Palestinian Christian activist who served as manager of the only Christian bookstore there. The bookstore had been the target of several attacks in the past, including bombings and arson. Ayyad was known to have received death threats over the years.
Christian leaders who turn their backs on the plight of the Christians in the Gaza Strip, or anywhere, while continuing to be obsessed with Israel are doing immense harm to their flocks: away from the public’s attention, Christians will be targeted more fiercely than ever. Worse, those who are ignoring the attacks on Christians are giving a green light to Hamas, Hizballah, and other Islamists to destroy Christian holy sites and murder Christians.
Read more on Gatestone: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20272/christian-leaders-ignore-attacks