It was alarming that when the recent propganda push on US camouses for a One state solution was endorsed by afew Christian Arab leaders no one considered the possibility that Christian Arabs might feel safer, believe they would have more freedoms and rights than in a Palestinian Sharia state wher as a minority, Jews would not offer a buffer or a sizeable other minority to counter a Islamic majority. After witnessing the mass immigration of Coptics from Egypt and the increase in Coptics placed on trial for breaking Islamic sharia laws; And the announced intention by the North Sudan to push 4-500,00 Christians and non-Muslims out of the sudan preparatory to their declaration of a pure sharia state April 8, it would become increasingly a matter of self-preservation for Christian Arabs especially in the West bank where shari has destroyed the once prosperous and largely Christian citries like Nazareth and Bethelehem to face the future in one state where the Jewish "Arabs" might be a counterbalance to Islamo-fascists.

I would like to add, that I worked with Russian emigres in Israel in the 90's. I remember the long lines at the open market between Tel-Aviv-Jaffa where the emgres lines up to recieve food baskets. Tlak of little Tel-Aviv and other hard impacts of russian culture. It is a gross religious bias to claim that Russians emerging from 50 years of communism were "born" with a presidposition to any belief. Who your parents were is an issue of citizenship in Israel but certainly not exclusive in this matter. Another example of Soviet attacks on human identity is the Chechnyan trauma contributing to hostilites with the former Soviets. Stalin had uprooted portions of the Checnyan people and forced migrations of Muslims from all over the "Stan's". Into remote areas where they were "re-educated". Many of these Muslims in a generation no longer had more than a name to remind them of their former identities reemerging from communist oppression with religious amnesia, we still do not have the data base to understand what is at work here. What also alters the identities of these people is the willingness of some Christian facilitation of the emigration to Israel that is proselytization. The Russians I met were glad to be in Israel, many looked to the possibility of relocating in the USA. If they were Christians they never mentioned it or any particular religious belief. All of them were making Aliyah. The existential question will remain how Jewish are they? But that is a question we all ask about our faiths. Israel is as free a country as it is generous in adapting these immigrants and it is disturbing someone would cite these humane initiatives as prejudice towards Christian Arabs.