That Christians of the world are unable to see this reality and exercise any pressure to save the priests, the people, and the defenders of their Holy Place, or to exert pressure on Israel to deliver food, water and medicine for the besieged, makes Arab-Christians in the Middle East angry. This is an indifference based on a certain racism and hatred for the Arabs, regardless of his or her religion.

Palestinian Christians are angry with Western Christians who have abandoned them. Palestinian Christians feel that Western Christians have left them alone to face this brutal Israeli occupation, simply because they are Arab Christians.

This is at least what many Arab-Christians have said to me as their pastor. If we were Italian, English, Irish, Americans, Germans, French would they do the same?

Imagine if anyone were to besiege Notre Dame of Paris, or the Vatican, or St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Imagine if a group of people were to besiege Jews, for days, inside any synagogue in the world and deprive them of food, water and electricity and kill them with snipers.

Would it be tolerated and accepted ? Would it take that long to save them and stand with the innocent Jews in a place of prayer? Wouldn't the whole world move to do immediately what is fair, right and just?