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109. It's not an evangelical thing. It's a Palestinian Christian thing.

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Palestinian Christians have been around for almost 2,000 years.

The Anglicans set up missions in the ME in the 19th Century. I think most of their missions focused on converting other Christians to Anglican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naim_Ateek

Although Ateek is Episcopal, the Kairos document is ecumenical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos_Palestine

https://www.kairosresponse.org/

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is the oldest terrorist group and was founded by a Greek Orthodox Christian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine

Father of Arab nationalist was a Christian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Zureiq

Even good ole' Sirhan Srihan was a Christian and he said he killed Bobby Kennedy as retribution for the six day war.


The Christian population has been declining in the ME. A huge migration occured to the US and Latin America in the early 20th century. Christians were allowed to become US citizens via a 1909 court case that determined "Christians from the land of Jesus" were eligible for citizenship were given the designation as "white". Back then only "whites" were eligible for citizenship. High caste Hindus were also designated as "white".


Anyway, they are as old as the hills and have been around longer than Muslims.
The US churches who support Palestinians are liberal churches.

General Conference approved a resolution calling on United Methodist institutions not to invest in the government bonds of Israel, Turkey and Morocco, given that those nations have engaged in long-term military occupations.
https://www.umnews.org/en/news/resolution-opposes-investment-in-israeli-bonds

Generally Palestinian Christians are no longer engaged in terrorism but I guess international church initiatives may be their vehicle to deal with Israel.