Why Palestinian Christians feel betrayed


Daoud Nassar on his farm in the West Bank village of Husan. America’s religious right embraces far-right Israeli policies, leading to the repression of Palestinian Christians. —Samar Hazboun/The New York Times

THE group in the United States that I’d say is most fervently urging President Donald Trump to crush Palestinian hopes for a state is not the Jewish community but rather evangelical Christians.

“We have no greater friends than Christian supporters of Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once told the conference of Christians United for Israel, which with 10 million members is twice the size of the much better-known American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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