By Daniel Pipes
It ain't just the Jews, folks.
A sustained assault on Arab Christians has led to their fleeing the birthplace of Christianity. The likely result will be reduced to empty church buildings and a congregation-less hierarchy with no flock
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | What some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West Bank, on the night of Sep. 3-4. That's when fifteen Muslim youths from one village, Dair Jarir, rampaged against Taybeh, a neighboring all-Christian village of 1,500 people.
The reason for the assault? A Muslim woman from Dair Jarir, Hiyam Ajaj, 23, fell in love with her Christian boss, Mehdi Khouriyye, owner of a tailor shop in Taybeh. The couple maintained a clandestine two-year affair and she became pregnant in about March 2005. When her family learned of her condition, it murdered her. That was on about Sep. 1; unsatisfied even with this "honor killing" — for Islamic law strictly forbids non-Muslim males to have sexual relations with Muslim females — the Ajaj men sought vengeance against Khouriyye and his family.
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By Ryan Jones
September 13th, 2005
For more than a year Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Israelis his plan to uproot the Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria had won Israel unprecedented support from Washington to retain sovereignty over major Jewish settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria
As proof Sharon pointed to an April 2004 letter from US President George W. Bush, in which the American stated it would be unrealistic to expect an Israeli withdrawal to its 1949 borders.
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By Ryan Jones
September 12th, 2005
The Jerusalem suburb of Ma'aleh Adumim, the largest “West Bank” Jewish settlement, has moved back to center stage internationally amid reports of plans to push forward with a new neighborhood linking it to the capital.
Washington has issued statements strongly opposing Israel's intention to build 3,000 new Jewish homes on the barren connecting hillside known as “E1,” despite President George W. Bush's purported willingness to back continued Israeli sovereignty over the area as part of any final peace agreement with the PLO.

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