Netanyahu: PA Drove Down Christianity in Bethlehem

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the number of Christians in Bethlehem “has dwindled” since coming under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu, in his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday morning, said, “The Palestinian Authority names its government buildings, its public squares, its schools after the mass murderers of Jews, which they glorify as martyrs.”

He added, “They pay and glorify not just the killing of Jews, but also killings of Christians. Christians, like Taylor Force, an American veteran who was brutally murdered in Israel by Palestinian terrorists” during a trip to Tel Aviv in 2016.

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