Jesus and Hamas in the Holy Land

It is always good form to admit one's biases, and in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict mine should be pretty obvious: I am a Christian who feels a special kinship with the Jewish people based on what Nostra Aetate called the "spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews." For me that kinship extends to the Jewish majority of Israel. But though I share no corresponding patrimony with the 99 percent of Palestinians who are Muslim, I do feel the common bond of humanity and regularly call for the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state. For the one percent of Palestinians who are Christian, I feel the bond of brotherhood and special concern for my brothers' plight.