Palestinian Christians are victims of the conflict too, Anwar points out

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Palestinian Christians have been victimised just as much as their Muslim brothers and sisters, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim while condemning Israel’s violence in Palestine in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday (Oct 31).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yke6rdwf  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 For those who continue to think or suggest that the atrocities committed against the Palestinians affect Muslims alone,

00:08 let it be reminded that the world's most ancient Christian community resides in Palestine,

00:17 totaling 47,000, based on a census conducted in 2017.

00:26 Palestinian Christians too have been driven out from their historic cities in large numbers,

00:33 and the underlying cause is the illegal Israeli occupation and apartheid policies.

00:40 In this sordid history of ongoing saga of cruelty, oppression and genocide,

00:46 Palestine's Muslims and Christian communities alike are the helpless victims.

00:53 The Western media rarely present the faces of Palestinian Christians,

00:58 or if mentioned, tend to convey the image of them as mere bystanders in Palestine.

01:05 This is utterly wrong because Palestinian Christians have been victimized just as much as their Muslim brothers and sisters.

01:15 The point I want to make here is that there are strong social, cultural and spiritual connections

01:23 between the Muslim and Christian communities which confer on the Palestinians their unique collective identity.

01:31 Nevertheless, the Zionist government of Israel is hell-bent on presenting a binary conception of the crisis,

01:39 capitalizing on the notion of a besieged Jewish state being encircled by an overwhelming and menacing population of Muslims in the region,

01:51 and therefore facing imminent existential threat.

01:57 Let us be clear. The Zionist state of Israel is an occupying force,

02:03 and as such it carries responsibilities under international law.

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