AMBASSADOR GEORGE DEEK: The Christian Israel you are not being shown

I grew up in Jaffa, going to church every Sunday with my father, the cantor of our Greek Orthodox church. I joined the Christian Scouts as a boy, later became a leader in the movement and even ran our marching band, a serious source of community pride. We marched at Christmas and Easter. We celebrated weddings, baptisms and feast days. We knew which grandmother made the best food and which family was feuding with which other family.

In other words, we were a perfectly normal Middle Eastern Christian community.