Is there evidence of the Palestinian Authority targeting Christians in the West Bank?

No there isn't,I live with Palestinian Christians,I eat with Palestinian Christians,I study with Palestinian Christians and I work with Palestinian Christians,therefore I know.

Do you know that the that the mayor of Ramallah HAS to be a Christian?
Three major Palestinian cities were established by Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Christians have lived in them continuously for hundreds of years,those cities are Ramallah,Bethlehem and Beit Jala.and that in Bethlehem lives the oldest christian community in the world.

Christian schools that are spread all over the Palestinian territories are seen as the best schools in Palestine,and they welcome all students no matter what their religion is.

Many,and I mean many members of the Palestinian Authority are Christians,same goes for the Palestinian Liberation Organization,the next Palestinian president might be a Christian woman,Dr.Hanan Ashrawi...

Jesus was a Palestinian,if not by race then by soul.
I'm proud of being a Palestinian,and I'm proud of my Christian Palestinian brothers who fight on our side against injustice.I'm proud of them because they were able to resist the ethnic cleansing and are still living in Bethlehem since Jesus was born.
I'm proud to have graduated from a Palestinian Christian school,and I'm proud to call a Palestinian Christian my best friend.

No. Christians have fared worse in former Mandate Palestine than Muslims; most have long since been driven out by the zionists. Anyone can easily research Christian-Muslim relations in the WB until 1967 when it was a part of Jordan and they were entirely amicable. There have since then been many attempts to drive out Christian Arabs,destroy their villages and hinder them economically. Consult the book BLOOD BROTHERS as only one example of ethno-religious cleansing targeting Christians since zionists assumed authority. They are currently attacking Jerusalem Christians frequently as part of a larger plan to pressure the Armenian Orthodox Church to sell it's property in Jerusalem to the so-called Israeli government.

I wouldn't say the Palestinian Authority, per say. But I will admit that, for Christians, it's kind of something that's between a rock and a hard place. I'm not going to brush aside that they don't like the Israelis much; however, I do have to point out that Christians from all over that area are leaving, known as Christian flight, so pushing the blame completely on the Israelis is somewhat of an irresponsible thing to do, since it might ignore other factors.

Christian families have long been complaining of intimidation and land theft by Muslims, especially those working for the Palestinian Authority.

Many Christians in Bethlehem and the nearby [Christian] towns of Bet Sahour and Bet Jalla have repeatedly complained that Muslims have been seizing their lands either by force or through forged documents.

In recent years, not only has the number of Christians continued to dwindle, but Bethlehem and its surroundings also became hotbeds for Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters and members.

Moreover, several Christian women living in these areas have complained about verbal and sexual assaults by Muslim men.

Over the past few years, a number of Christian businessmen told me that they were forced to shut down their businesses because they could no longer afford to pay "protection" money to local Muslim gangs.

While it is true that the Palestinian Authority does not have an official policy of persecution against Christians, it is also true that this authority has not done enough to provide the Christian population with a sense of security and stability.

In addition, Christians continue to complain about discrimination when it comes to employment in the public sector. Since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority 15 years ago, for example, not a single Christian was ever appointed to a senior security post. Although Bethlehem has a Christian mayor, the governor, who is more senior than him, remains a Muslim.

As a Muslim journalist, I am always disgusted and ashamed when I hear from Christians living in the West Bank and Jerusalem about the challenges, threats and assaults that many of them have long been facing.

The reason why I feel like this is because those behind the assaults and threats are almost always Muslims.

For decades, the delicate and complicated issue of relations between Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land was treated by Palestinians as a taboo. Most Palestinians chose to live in denial, ignoring the fact that relations between the Muslim majority and the tiny Christian minority [about 10%] have been witnessing a setback, particularly over the past 15 years.

On the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the Holy Land, a Christian merchant told me jokingly: "The next time a pope comes to visit the Holy Land, he will have to bring his own priest with him pray in a church because most Christians would have left by then."

Indeed, the number of Christians leaving Bethlehem and other towns and cities appears to be on the rise, according to representatives of the Christian community in Jerusalem.

Today, Christians in Bethlehem constitute less than 15% of the population. Five or six decades ago, the Christians living in the birthplace of Jesus made up more than 70% of the population.

True, Israel's security measures in the West Bank have made living conditions more difficult for all Palestinians, Christians and Muslims alike. But to say that these measures are the main and sole reason for the Christian exodus from the Holy Land is misleading.

If the security fence and the occupation were the main reason, the Palestinian territories should by have been empty of both Muslims and Christians. These measures, after all, do not distinguish between Christians and Muslims.

On the other hand, it is also incorrect to assume that the Christians are leaving only because they are afraid of their Muslim neighbors. Christians are leaving because of the poor economy, and because they no longer feel secure in their homes. But they are also leaving because most of them, if not all, find it easier to merge into Christian-dominated societies in the US, Canada, EU and Latin America, where many of them already have relatives and friends.

In fact, Christians began leaving the Holy Land long before Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967. But the number of those moving to the US and Canada has sharply increased ever since the Palestinian Authority took control over Bethlehem and other Palestinian villages and cities. When the second intifada erupted in September 2000, Christian leaders said they were "terrified" by the large number of Christians who were leaving the country.

Ironically, leaders of the Palestinian Christians are also to blame for the ongoing plight of their people because they refuse to see the reality as it is. And the reality is that many Christians feel insecure and intimidated because of what we Muslims are doing to them and not only because of the bad economy.

When they go on the record, these leaders always insist that Israel and the occupation are the only reason behind the plight of their constituents. They stubbornly refuse to admit that many Christians are being targeted by Muslims. By not talking openly about the problem, the Christian leaders are encouraging the perpetrators to continue their harassment and assaults against Christian families.
http://www.hudson-ny.org/501/the-beleaguered-christians-in-bethlehem

http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm

This was easy, besides you picked a really bad topic to defend Islam, it is well known that Muslims hate Christians and fight with them during all the history of Islam and at current times. Check Sudan etc.

@According to the UN, an estimated 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur and more than 2.6 million displaced since ethnic rebels took up arms in 2003.

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Christian...

Shanti Nagar, the only majority Christian town in Pakistan, being attacked by 30,000 Muslims over the discovery of a torn Koran in a nearby mosque.(ps 30k is more than the whole beit lehem)

yes there is just look over this website.

http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm

even my fellow christian arab friends in egypt called on for jewish support.
http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=10245

PUSHING ISLAM?