This article (via Orthodox Today) is an interview with a French filmmaker about a documentary he made on the plight of Christians living in the Middle East.

There is much in the article to give us pause (”… They used priests, monks and nuns as human shields. They behaved like barbarians. But nobody reported the real facts. …”). But perhaps none is so succinctly sinister as the name of the movie:

FP: You have titled the film, “First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday.” What does it mean exactly?

Rehov: A phrase is very well known among Middle East Muslims: “First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday.” This means, first we take care of the “Saturday people” (the Jews), then we will take care of the “Sunday people” (the Christians). I decided to make this sentence the title of this film.

And by ‘take care of,’ I doubt very much that they mean bandaging up our wounds, pouring wine and oil on them and putting us up at an inn as this stranger did.