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Christy Anastas — From the Middle East Conflict — “Stories Not Told to the World” — A Christian Voice

10 Friday Oct 2014

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The content dates from Spring 2014, and some of it has been well reviewed, but I feel it still worth a listen and a look.

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A video was uploaded onto YouTube which featured a young Palestinian Christian woman describing what it was like to live under Israel military occupation. If that was all the video was about, it would have simply been added to the thousands of other YouTube videos which describe the same thing. What made Christy Anastas’ video unique was that she bravely revealed how Palestinian Christians have and are being treated by Palestinian Muslims and nationalists.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/05/01/what-happens-when-a-palestinian-doesnt-hate-israel-enough/ – 5/1/2014.

Christy Anastas: “I believe in people, not concrete.”

Posted to YouTube – 4/25/2014.

On the whereabouts of Christy Anastas —

Christy Anastas, the 24-year-old woman who has fled the West Bank (where a journalist was recently sentenced to a year in prison for mocking Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on Facebook), will present herself for inspection at a police station in England on the morning of April 29, 2014.

Why?

Because a self-styled “peace and justice” activist has called the police in England, informing the authorities that she may be a “missing person.” Consequently, Christy will present herself at a police station somewhere in England this morning to assure them that she is not being held against her will.

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/04/christy_anastas_on_the_stone_p.html – 4/28/2014.

On PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat —

So, given that even Hamas never claimed that 96 percent of those killed were civilians, where did Erekat get this number? Again, we must admit that he simply made it up.

This is not exactly the first time: Erekat was one of the inventors of the “Jenin Massacre” in 2002. In fighting in the West Bank city, 52 Palestinians were killed, as were 23 Israeli soldiers. Yasser Arafat claimed at the time that the “Jenin Massacre” could only be compared to the siege of Stalingrad in World War II. Erekat himself said “the numbers of killed could reach 500 since the Israeli offensive began. Thousands of wounded. The Jenin refugee camp is no longer in existence, and now we’ve heard of executions there.”

There was considerable destruction in parts of the camp, but at no time did it cease to be in existence. He made that up. Does any of this matter? It does.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10183 – 10/8/2014.

Today:

http://www.emmaus-group.org/

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Link

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Persecution-of-Christians-in-the-Muslim-world-We-are-what-we-tolerate-339808

30 Thursday Jan 2014

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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Persecution-of-Christians-in-the-Muslim-world-We-are-what-we-tolerate-339808

On the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority states by the author of _In the Land of Invisible Women_.

Background Reference on the Persecution of Syria’s Christian Community

27 Monday May 2013

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In the previous post, I reblogged a message from an anti-Jihad blog without looking twice, which is dangerous for a cyberjournalist: at the very least, I should have glossed the topic, however compelling and dramatic the news out of Syria may be.

Last year, the Middle East Forum reprinted from Ha’aretz a piece on just this subject: “Syrian disinformation about Christian persecution” (Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Oskar Svadkovsky, and Phillip Smyth, April 6, 2012):

The claim of 90 percent ethnic cleansing can actually be traced to a report put out on March 13 by an online Arabic outlet known as Al-Haqiqa (Arabic for “the truth”).

A quick Google search reveals that the original memo sent to Fides by the church leaders had been copy-pasted almost down to the last word from the SyriaTruth site, which is notorious for its pro-regime propaganda. Officials of the Syrian Church did not confirm the story with anybody in Homs before sending out the memo. They must have presumed that the SyriaTruth writers did.

I’ve seen this same technique — one questionable press release reprinted through dozens of outlets — with stories about olive groves burning on the West Bank.  At the end of such web excursions, the reader-blogger cries for the direct reporting from a trustworthy witness.

Apart from innuendo, first page Google look-up for the string “Syria Christian Persecution” seem to bring to light only unsubstantiated allegations, e.g., “When government forces aren’t present, Muslims have been known to rob churches and kidnap, rape, or even kill Christian women” — from Christian Freedom International: “Persecution in Syria: ‘How Do You Want to Die . . .'”.

Please, specifically: who?  What? When? Where? How? And why?

Add: corroboration?

Put a byline on it — or attribute to a “desk” with contact information.

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The Inquisitr asks, “Do you think the two bishops kidnapped by Syrian rebels indicate widespread Christian persecution or just an isolated incident?”

At least with that story, there are names: Bishop Boulos Yazigi and Archbishop Yahanna Ibrahim.  (“Syrian bishops kidnapped in Aleppo still missing one month on.”  The Guardian, May 21, 2013).

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