L'Osservatore (Vatican news) raps Israel for declining disaster relief

cws ^ | Vatican, Dec. 28

[dennisw]

L'Osservatore raps Israel for declining disaster relief

 

Vatican, Dec. 28 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican newspaper has denounced a decision by the Israeli army to deny emergency help to disaster victims in Sri Lanka.

Calling for "a radical and dramatic change of perspective" among people "too often preoccupied with making war," L'Osservatore Romano singled out Israeli military leaders for declining a request for emergency medical help. The Vatican paper observed that in what "should be a time for unconditional solidarity," some world leaders seem incapable of escaping a "small-minded approach that restricts their horizons."

The suffering caused by the tsunami has created "a mass of deaths, across borders," L'Osservatore observed. The fact that the devastation swept across different societies, cultures, and nations should help to reinforce the universal perspective, the paper suggested.

L'Osservatore Romano, in its front-page coverage dated December 29 (but published in the afternoon of December 28) aid that the death toll from the earthquake and tidal wave was likely to exceed 50,000, with many more thousands wounded and over 1 million left homeless.

In Sri Lanka, where 17,000 people died and 1 million were driven from their homes, President Chandrika Kumaratunga has declared a national day of mourning on December 31, and asked for commemorative services by all of the country's religious bodies.

[mewzilla]

Say what?!

I thought Israel's offer was refused, or at least scaled back to almost nothing by the Sri Lankan gov't?

[leadpenny]

I thought it was the other way around?

[dennisw]

The Vatican is 180 degrees wrong on this, is issuing false press releases after misreading the news. Some Vaticanite is issuing this due to his dislike for Israel.

[verity]

How much is the Vatican donating?

[dennisw]

I thought it was the other way around?.....


Correct. This press release is based on misreading the news, jumping to conclusions based on a predisposition against Israel.

[evad]

I thought Israel's offer was refused, or at least scaled back to almost nothing by the Sri Lankan gov't?

Did the author commit yet another journalistic false premise?

[mewzilla]

Can anyone find a link to the actual article in the L'Osservatore? Just in case CWS is taking this out of context somehow.

[livius]

The Vatican is full of leftists, real hard-core ones. The disregard of truth and the hatred of Israel are as natural as breathing to leftists. Things are never going to improve in the Catholic Church until the leftists are dragged out, root and branch.

[dufekin]

Well, but----

Israel should not have accepted Sri Lankan refusal of their aid, gone to Sri Lanka armed, and delivered it anyway, if necessary by military force. I think that's the poorly presented argument here, right?

[dennisw]

This link is useful about the CWS which carried this article. They seem like straight shooters and have no reason to twist what the L'Observatore Romano had printed.

http://www.cwnews.com/about/about.cfm

[Catspaw]

Don't have a link to the article, but here's a link to the newspaper:

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/index.htm

[mewzilla]

Well, FWIW, since they didn't correct the record, just put out for further dissemination what L'Osservatore printed, I don't know if I'd call CWS staight shooters.

[Ginifer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4130599.stm

Vatican might want to read the BBC article...

[mewzilla]

Thanks!

[dennisw]

Well, FWIW, since they didn't correct the record, just put out for further dissemination what L'Osservatore printed, I don't know if I'd call CWS straight shooters.

My take is CWS translated from the Italian (the daily L'Osservatore seem to be only in Italian) and merely relayed what was in L'Osservatore. CWS will issue a correction when it wakes up. It might be a small internet operation. CWS seems to be well intentioned Catholics, same as you I presume.

Well, FWIW, since they didn't correct the record, just put out for further dissemination what L'Osservatore printed, I don't know if I'd call CWS straight shooters.

My take is CWS translated from the Italian (the daily L'Osservatore seem to be only in Italian) and merely relayed what was in L'Osservatore. CWS will issue a correction when it wakes up. It might be a small internet operation. CWS seems to be well intentioned Catholics, same as you I presume.

[MKM1960]

Sounds like Fr. Guido Sarducci,gossip columns for La Observatore Romano, gets it wrong again. Israel's aid was rejected by Sri Lanka. The comments underneath the story point this out as well. Oh well what can you expect from the old biddies at St. Peter's, "It's the JOOWS fault that Sri Lanka refused, ad infinitum."

[lupie]

another sad ping

[Netizen]

Another thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1310082/posts?page=1

[SolutionsOnly]

I agree. There is something seriously wrong with the Catholic Church - their values seem as confused as the rest of Europe. There are news accounts of nations refusing Israeli aid - that is a much bigger story if the Vatican is sincere about out brotherly love, peace, and understanding. Talk about hatred? Your people are dying and suffering and you refuse help for them? Who is the real sinner in that scenario?