Arab Christians prosper in Israel

 Legal Insurrection:

While Christianity remains under attack across the Middle East, the Christian community in Israel continues to grow and prosper. Israel’s Christians population grew by 1.4 percent in 2020, reaching 182,000 people, a pre-Christmas report released by country’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said.

The report shows that the Arab Christian women are the best educated group in the Jewish State. “The proportion of women among the Christian students was higher than the women’s proportion among the total number of students in all degrees and particularly in advanced degrees: 64.1% and 53.2%, respectively, of those studying for a PhD, and 72.9% and 63.8%, respectively, of those studying for a master’s degree,” the report revealed.

An overwhelming majority of Israeli Christian view their life in Israel as favorably. “According to the CBS, 84% of Christians are satisfied with their life: 24% answered “very satisfied” and 60% were “satisfied”,” The Times of Israel reported citing the data.

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The Israeli demographic data and social indicators are in sharp contrast with the condition of Christians living under the PLO-controlled Palestinian Territories and Hamas-run Gaza. According to a 2020 survey carried out in the Palestinian Territories and Gaza, nearly 59% of Palestinian Christians were considering emigration.

While the Palestinian Muslim population has grown exponentially, the number Christians in the PA-controlled territories continue to decline. “When the Ottoman era ended in 1922, Christians were 11 percent of the population of Palestine—about 70,000 people. According to the 2017 census by the Palestinian Authority (PA), they now number 47,000—barely 1 percent,” the U.S. magazine Christianity Today noted in its August 2020 issue.

The things are just as troubling in Hamas-run Gaza. Under Hamas’s 14-year reign Gaza’s Christian population has dropped by more than 75 percent; from 4,200 in 2007 to the current figure of nearly 1,000. The remaining Christian community in Gaza faces repeated terrorist attacks on its members and institutions.

Christians in the Arab Middle East and Muslim majority countries share the same dismal fate. Besides being in demographic decline, many of these communities face brutal persecution and outright genocide.

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Muslim majority communities are some of the most religiously intolerant.   In communities where Muslims are a minority, they are some of the first to claim persecution.

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