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America and Christians in the Middle East: A Response

May 16th, 2025 | 9 min read

By Randall Fowler

As someone interested in U.S. policy in the Middle East and a contributor to Mere Orthodoxy, I read Onsi A. Kamel’s recent post about the disconnect between American and Middle East Christians with fascination and appreciation. While Kamel strikes me as directionally correct—U.S. Christians ought not be so sanguine about Israeli West Bank settlement expansion, supportive of violence wielded against their coreligionists in Gaza, or blasé about the rhetorical hypocrisy of Trump administration officials—there are two main overgeneralizations in the piece that invite more clarification.

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