I was meant to interview Dr. Muntha Isaac, a Palestinian Christian theologian and evangelical Lutheran pastor in Bethlehem at our studio in Bermondsey.

But after Israel once more blocked the Alan B crossing into Jordan he was unable to travel to the UK as planned.

But Montha Isaac's eyewitness view of decades of apartheid and occupation in the West Bank

and how that connects to thousands of years of

Christianity in the Holy Land was simply too important to miss out.

So here's our remote downstream about the thousands of years of Christianity in Palestine and the truth about Zionist supremacist ideology.

Hello, Dr. Muntha Isaac, thank you so much for joining us today.

Thank you for having Meers.

So just to begin with, I wanted to find out a little bit about the history of the Palestinian Christian community.

Is it basically an unbroken line of people who've

lived in Palestine since the time of Christ? Like what's the what's the history of the

community?

So when we talk about Palestinian Christians, we're literally talking about the oldest Christian community in the world.

And there is definitely a continuity.

The Christian presence never ceased to exist in Palestine.

Now having said that, we must understand that this continuous line is one of diverse identities.

So it's not as if we've always identified as Palestinian Christians.

The history of Palestine is complicated. It's a history of several occupations.

There were a time... It's a history of several occupations.

There were a time in which we were the majority,

as Christians, I mean, beginning the seventh century when the Arabs invaded and then gradually the church was Arabized

there was an interruption with the

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