Ted Cruz booed off stage at Middle Eastern Christian conference

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Palestine being the state with the highest percentage of Christians in the ME, of course.

Isn't Lebanon significantly higher?

Yes. Lebanon is 41% Christian, Palestine about 3%. I was assuming that King was being sarcastic.

Pre-1948, Mandatory Palestine was about 25-30% Christian; that percentage steadily declined after that. They tended to live in pretty concentrated areas in specific cities and towns. My dad says he didn't know any Muslims growing up until he went to college in Beirut; all of his friends, neighbors and classmates as a child had been Christian. Two cities in the West Bank - Ramallah (the de facto Palestinian capital) and Bethlehem - were historically overwhelmingly Christian, and their mayors are actually required by law to be Christians even though the majority of people who live there now are Muslim.

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The Democrats have  an ex-president that wrote Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, the GOP do not.

Ron Paul called Gaza a concentration camp IIRC.  And Jimmy Carter isn't influencing US policy.  Even progressives like Warren and Sanders are pro-Israel.

What does being pro-Israel even mean at this point? Can you oppose West Bank settlements and be pro-Israel? Can you support Palestinian statehood and be pro-Israel? Are you required to adhere to the Yisrael Beitenu party line in order to be pro-Israel?

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Santorum criticizes Cruz.

Makes sense. Santorum likes Israel but as a traditionalist Catholic, he doesn't have fever-dreams about it in the same way that evangelical Protestants like Ted Cruz do. And since the bulk of Middle Eastern Christians are some variety of Catholic (Maronite, Melkite, Chaldean, etc), he probably shares a certain affinity with them that Cruz doesn't.