Palestinian Priest Says Muslims and Christians Share the Same Ancestry and Land
August 8, 2026
A Palestinian priest breaks down what Western media constantly tries to erase: Palestinian Christians and Muslims share the exact same roots, ancestry, language, and culture.
The occupation doesn’t differentiate between a church and a mosque when the bombs fall or the land is stolen.
Christians and Muslims in West Asia have lived side-by-side as indigenous people of the land for generations.
The occupation targets both communities because they represent the native history and continuous presence of Palestine.
Western news loves to spin this as some “ancient religious war” to hide the fact that it’s basic settler-colonialism against indigenous people.
One people, one land, one shared struggle.
Source: @rahmeh.doctor
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English Script:
Interviewer: Christians of Israel outside of Judea and Samaria area, West Bank area…
Christian Priest: The 48 area.
Interviewer: The 48 area?
Christian Priest: Yeah.
Interviewer: So the ones inside have grown, have doubled since the 70s, 1970?
Christian Priest: Not so much. Not so much because the statistics of 1948, during the Nakba or the Nakba, the Christian population of the Holy Land, between the river and the sea were 20%. Now, we are less than 1% in Israel.
Interviewer: Has there been Christians killed here?
Christian Priest: Yes. During the first and the second Intifada.
Interviewer: Did you feel threatened by the Muslims?
Christian Priest: No, never.
Interviewer: So when they…
Christian Priest: This is the Israeli and the zionist media that want to put…we are proud to be in good relation with 15 surrounded Muslim villages and that today and tomorrow is the beginning of Ramadan, the month of lent. And we respect them because all their kids were sent to our schools to learn in our school. And we are proud to educate Muslim students.
