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What side are you on? >> Watch this former CIA officer reveal how Israel crushed Christianity in the Holy Land. Palestine used to be 10% Christian. It's now more like 2 or 3% Christian. Evangelical support for the Israeli government has resulted in destruction of Christian communities. So, what side are you on? Are you trying to save Christianity or are you trying to destroy Christianity? Because you're destroying it right now.
>> He is absolutely right. Israel has crushed the Christian population of the Holy Land from roughly 13 to 10% before 1948 to around 2% today.
>> The Christian population in the region has declined dramatically since Israel became a state in 1948.
>> And I'm not quite sure why.
>> I think that's part of the whole Greater Israel project.
>> And how did they pull this off? People mentioned the usual things. Vandalizing churches, attacking clergy, blocking Christian movement, and confiscating Christian land. All true, but there's one tactic that has proven especially effective, and every Christian in Jerusalem knows it. Spitting on Christians.
>> You see these videos of Christians priests with crucifixes around their necks getting spit on in Jerusalem.
>> Jewish men and children spitting on >> spitting on Christian worshippers.
>> Upsurge in spitting and hitting attacks on clergy and the vandalism of Christian sites.
>> Christians in Jerusalem's old city say they've been repeatedly assaulted. Even one of America's most hardcore Christian Zionists told Netanyahu that while he was walking through Israel with a pastor, that pastor was spat on simply for being Christian.
>> If you actually talk to the majority of Christians, talk to them, you'll see what they say. They say Israel is the only place where we're respected and protected. We had only one incident where a small child spit on one of the pastors.
>> Imagine raising your family as a Christian father under Israeli rule. Knowing that if your six-year-old daughter walks down the street, she can be spat on by the Israelis just because she's Christian, only to learn that the Israeli Minister of National Security not only doesn't punish the attackers, but he defends it, calling spitting on Christians an ancient Jewish tradition. Put yourself in that father's shoes. Are you going to raise your daughter in a place where she can be humiliated and attacked every time she walks outside, or are you going to leave for her safety and dignity? This is exactly how Israeli society, backed by the Zionist state, has silently managed to drive the Christian presence out of the Holy Land. And it's getting worse. So, what must be done to safeguard the Christians of the Holy Land to restore the dignity, security, and respect they enjoyed for millennia before Israel's creation in 1948?