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Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/marshall200312220001.asp
Bethlehem and Beyond - Hope and Fear in the Holy Land
(National Review) Paul Marshall - Bethlehem's Christians, gathered around the Church of the Nativity - one of Christianity's holiest sites - were shaken last year when 200 Palestinians, firing Kalashnikovs, knocked down the church doors to escape the Israelis. In the last three years, several thousand of Bethlehem's Christians, perhaps 5% of the population, have left. The draft Palestinian constitution says, "Islam is the official religion in Palestine," and makes the "principles of the Islamic sharia" a "main source for legislation."