The Israel authorities treat the Christian Palestinian people in a way we can never accept or approve, first and foremost because Israel treats Palestinians as foreigners, as if we were strangers in our land
They are treating us as if we came here from elsewhere, as if we accidentally and recently strayed into this land But we are the rightful owners of this land We didn’t intrude into Israel Israel intruded into our lives in 1948, and in 1967 it occupied Eastern Jerusalem We have been here long before Israel By the time Israel came here, our forefathers had been living here for many centuries