Posted on 12/29/2004 4:37:34 AM PST by white trash redneck
The Vatican newspaper has denounced what it called a decision by the IDF 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.
Contrary to the Vatican report, an Israeli plane carrying 80 tons of food and medical supplies worth $100,000 was set to depart for Sri Lanka Wednesday morning. At the request of the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry, a team of some 150 Israeli medical and security personnel aborted their planned trip to the island nation Tuesday night.
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 fact that the devastation swept across different societies, cultures, and nations should help to reinforce the universal perspective, the paper suggested. (Jerusalem Post staff and agencies)
The Israelis offer aid to Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankans refuse it, and now the Vatican castigates the Israelis for refusing to send aid!
No good deed goes unpunished!
When did the Vatican become antisemitic?
Gives the Vatican a band name. Ooops already had one.
You hit the nail right on the head!
Is that what they are saying?
How is that possible?
400 A.D. or so. I guess you could say they have made progress.
The Catholic Church should sit down and shut up. What have they done to aid the Sri Lankans?
Seems like the Vatican manages to be on the wrong side of every issue these days. So much for infalibility...
Kerry?
The Isrealis were denied entrance to help. What is this author smoking?
You can bet on one thing > If this had happened to Israel not one Sri Lanken would be giving any aid.
Earlier than that.
Exactly! I was just coming here to post this.
Americans simply cannot understand how deep rooted anti-semitism is in Europe.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Bible pretty clear in its direction to support Israel?
I'm sure you know that the concept of papal infallibility doesn't apply to L'Osservatore Romano. :)
I honestly can't see how the Vatican could have put that spin on it - Sri Lanka was pretty public about refusing Israeli aid.
One thing you have to remember, however, is that many people at the Vatican are raving leftists. They got into "Liberation Theology" in the 60s and eventually got kicked upstairs to the Vatican, where they now view everything through their hard-left lens (which of course also means condemning Israel at every turn, truth be damned).
The 1986 Red Sox couldn't have screwed up the Altar Boy scandal as badly the Vatican. Who the *heck* do they think they are to be "casting stones". I think the Vatican gets a bad rap for anti-Semetism during the war, but they're working hard to earn it now.
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