Because They Hate

Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel, St. Martin's Press, 2006. 

A Christian in Lebanon

Brigitte Gabriel tells her story of growing up as a Christian Arab in Lebanon during their civil war. Lebanon received waves of Palestinian refugees after the founding of Israel and again after the Six-Day War. When King Hussein of Jordan expelled the Palestinians from Jordan in 1970, Lebanon was the only Arab country that was willing to accept them. The Palestinians repaid this generosity by declaring jihad against the Lebanese Christians, thus igniting the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. During the Lebanese Civil War, Gabriel was often under military attack by the Muslims, simply because she was a Christian. 

A Christian in Israel

Gabriel also tells of her time in Israel, where she was a television journalist working in Jerusalem, where she was the evening news anchor for Middle East Television's World News. She talks about how much freedom Israeli journalists have, compared to journalists in Arab countries. Israeli journalists are free to criticize the government of Israel. Although they will not say so publicly, many Palestinian Christians living in the West Bank are afraid that if the Israelis leave, they will be persecuted by the Muslim jihadists.