(Jerusalem Post) Aymenn Jawad - The Syriac Orthodox Church's bishop in Lebanon, George Saliba, told Al-Dunya TV on July 24 that "the source...behind all these [protest] movements, all these civil wars" in the Arab world is nothing other than Zionism, "deeply rooted in Judaism." The Jews, he says, are responsible for financing and inciting the turmoil in accordance with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. These remarks are not an isolated case among Middle Eastern Christians. Two months after the assault last October on the Syriac Catholic Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad, leaving 58 dead, the Melkite Greek Patriarch Gregory III Laham characterized the terrorist attacks on Iraq's Christians as part of "a Zionist conspiracy against Islam." It is telling that other non-Muslim minorities that have suffered discrimination and violence at the hands of Islamists - including the Yezidis, Mandeans and Baha'is - have never blamed Jews or Zionism for their persecution; their religions have not featured anti-Semitic doctrines.
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