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While Arafat tried to present himself as a moderate, the actions of the PLO under his command said otherwise. In 1990 the Palestinian Liberation Front, a faction of the PLO, tried to launch a terrorist attack on Israel's beaches.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/31/world/israel-reports-foiling-speedboat-attack-on-beach.html Israel Reports Foiling Speedboat Attack on Beach – New York Times]</ref> Arafat and the PLO leadership refused to condemn the attack or take action against the Palestinian Liberation Front.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/world/plo-rejects-us-demand-on-israel-raid.html?src=pm P.L.O. Rejects U.S. Demand on Israel Raid]</ref>
While Arafat tried to present himself as a moderate, the actions of the PLO under his command said otherwise. In 1990 the Palestinian Liberation Front, a faction of the PLO, tried to launch a terrorist attack on Israel's beaches.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/31/world/israel-reports-foiling-speedboat-attack-on-beach.html Israel Reports Foiling Speedboat Attack on Beach – New York Times]</ref> Arafat and the PLO leadership refused to condemn the attack or take action against the Palestinian Liberation Front.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/world/plo-rejects-us-demand-on-israel-raid.html?src=pm P.L.O. Rejects U.S. Demand on Israel Raid]</ref>
In what should have convinced everybody that the "Palestinian" terrorist hasn't changed, Arafat gave his support for the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.<ref>[http://articles.philly.com/1991-03-02/news/25789801_1_hawalli-plo-officials-palestine-liberation-organization Fearful Palestinians In Kuwait Criticize Arafat]</ref>
In what should have convinced everybody that the "Palestinian" terrorist hasn't changed, Arafat gave his support for the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.<ref>[http://articles.philly.com/1991-03-02/news/25789801_1_hawalli-plo-officials-palestine-liberation-organization Fearful Palestinians In Kuwait Criticize Arafat]</ref>
==On Christians==
Arafat and Islamization are the cause of Christian decline in Bethlehem. It began since Arafat took control. Repression, second class citizens, harassment and more.<ref>Justus Reid Weiner, (2005) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Oyyi864aGK0C&q=Arafat#v=snippet&q=Arafat&f=false Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society]</ref><ref>[https://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm The Beleaguered Christians of the Palestinian-Controlled Areas], David Raab, JCPA, Jan, 2003.
''A Second-Class People / Regional Repression of Christians / Official PA Domination of Christians / PA Disrespect for Christian Holy Sites / The PA Takeover of the Church of the Nativity / The PA and Jerusalem Christians / Reduction of Christian Political Power / Harassment of Palestinian Christians by Palestinian Muslims / The Palestinian Christian Response''.</ref>
Overview:<ref>[https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2020/12/how-yasir-arafat-drove-christians-from-bethlehem/ How Yasir Arafat Drove Christians from Bethlehem] D. Weinberg, Mosaic Mag., Dec. 28, 2020.</ref>
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...the real reason for Christian decline in Bethlehem: the Palestinian Authority and radical Islam.
It started with Yasser Arafat. Arriving from Tunis, Arafat immediately set out to suppress the Palestinian middle class across the West Bank, which he understood could be the only real opposition to his planned dictatorial authority. He nationalized most business sectors and squeezed Palestinian small businessmen out of business. Especially hard hit were middle class businessmen of Bethlehem, mainly Christian.
Arafat then sidelined the long-time Christian mayor of Bethlehem, Elias Freij, and Arafat’s henchmen led a campaign of terror and intimidation against Christian institutions and families in the city. Land theft, beatings, and intimidation of Christians in Bethlehem by PA security services and other gangs became routine. Forced marriages between Christian women and Moslem men were reported. In 2002, Arafat’s terrorists even took over and defiled the Church of the Nativity for 39 days, holding 200 priests as hostage as the terrorists sought to escape Israeli justice.
The result was an inexorable and ongoing Christian exodus from Bethlehem; a city captured by the PA and taken over by a very intolerant strain of Islam.
... the radical Islamic assault on Christians across the Middle East, often with government encouragement and support.
According to a report commissioned in 2019 by then-British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, pervasive persecution of Christians “sometimes amounting to genocide” is ongoing in parts of the Middle East. Millions of Christians in the region “have been uprooted from their homes, and many have been killed, kidnapped, imprisoned and discriminated against,” the report finds.
It also highlights how states, and state-sponsored social media, incite hatred and publish propaganda against Christians, especially in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. “The governing AKP in Turkey depicts Christians as a “threat to the stability of the nation. Turkish Christian citizens have often been stereotyped as not real Turks but as Western collaborators.”
Iraq has lost at least two-thirds of its Christians over the past two decades. More than 600,000 Syrian Christians have been displaced or fled Syria since the civil war began. Other Christians have been massacred and buried in mass graves.
In Gaza, Islamic militants have bombed churches, killed prominent Christians (mostly Greek Orthodox), and forced others to convert to Islam. In the West Bank, Arab Christians are better off than almost anywhere in the region, but only an estimated 50,000 live there – about two percent of the population, down from 10 percent in 1920.
Overall, Christians now make up only four percent of the population of the Middle East, down from 20 percent a century ago.
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==With Saddam Hussein==
==With Saddam Hussein==