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Mitri Raheb makes the comment that it is not necessary for a Palestinian Christian to go on pilgrimage because one "is ~lready at the source __ itself, the _ pofot of origin" (p.
In spite of its small and fragmented nature, the Palestinian Christian community has traditionally held an important place in the life of Palestine.
Raheb notes that this Christian community has never enjoyed political autonomy, as it has always existed within occupied territory, ruled by Byzantines (technically Christian, although more concerned with political and cultural hegemony) and their Muslim and Ottoman successors and then by British mandate and now by Israel.
Emigration-or moving to new places where political, economic, and social oppression are not as devastating-is one traditional way a community seeks to preserve itself; and, Raheb notes, it also has significant biblical antecedents, which become important later in the book as he explores the Exodus.
The threat of emigration and the gradual disappearance of the Palestinian Christian community are at the heart of this book.
Raheb notes that the Christian community has for most of its life existed as a substate .......
Raheb is aware of a similar danger in the Palestinian Christian community: The course for the future must avoid both fundamentalism and secularism.
) One must wonder if Palestinian Christian hopes for economic, political, social, and religious justice have a stable foundation in the PLO.
The Exodus as Raheb retells it becomes the story of the Palestinian Christian community's search for justice.