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)
Thank you for proving my point.
I have consistently supported Israel on this forum. Yet, because I object to a particularly nasty Catholic-bashing thread, I am now the enemy.
That's the one thing that really bothers me about FR.
Maybe the Vatican should send more time worrying about it leaders and their relationships with little boys.
In the CWN article you linked to, it says: "Israel refused to send only the medical teams."
The rest of the story:
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December 27, 2004, Baltimore - In one of the largest initial responses for emergency assistance in South and Southeast Asia, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) made an initial commitment of $500,000 to provide shelter and immediate healthcare needs to thousands devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunamis that hit the Bay of Bengal December 26.
CRS and local partners immediately mobilized to the hardest hit areas of India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia. CRS response is expected to climb into the millions in order to meet emergency needs and for the subsequent rebuilding and rehabilitation of the region. The initial $500,000 will be used primarily to help our partners bring food and emergency relief to the survivors and to avoid the spread of disease. More than 23,000 people in nine countries are reported dead; millions have been devastated and left without homes.
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CRS will still be there helping to rebuild when you've forgotten the whole incident.
The problem is that you are trying to defend and indefensible position by laying blame to those of us showing the hypocrisy and arrogance of the Vatican in issuing a statement based not on fact, but obvious dislike for Israel.
You're far from being 'the enemy'.
And neither are the defenders of Israel here.
In this case, the 'enemy' is ignorance, bigotry, but more importantly death, injury, sickness, disease and starvation by real people who have survived in the IO region.
Take care.
Watch out. You're going to get tagged as an enemy too, if you're not careful.
Post it to the religion forum and I'll leave you alone. This is News/Activism! You are very stereotypical, exampled by your thinskinned name calling and whining.
Criticism of certain idiotic leaders in the Catholic church, especially those who have led their flock astray, is not criticism of Catholicism or faithful Catholics. Yes, I can see where some Catholics would be sensitive to any criticism directed their way, but reflexive defensiveness hurts your cause. Reminds people of the way some Blacks (or their so-called leaders) reflexively defended an obviously-guilty OJ, trying to turn criticism of him into criticism of them.
I agree. And I wish that we had less sniping from all sides.
Name the idiotic leader who published this thus-undiscovered article in the newspaper. Yet, we have seen all manner of general attacks on the Catholic Church in this thread. Happens every time.
It is not a matter of enemy or not, it is a matter of people, in this case, some at the Vatican, trying to throw in their own opinions about Israel, while Israel is trying to help the matter, during a disaster.
Read the quoted statement. It is filled with bias and hatred of Israel that has nothing to do with the disaster.
Do you think that these same people think any different of America?
No, they hate us both.
That, from you, is rich. Good golly ... thanks for the laugh.
Good bye.
And, BTW, the attacks on this thread are not unlike someone attacking President Bush for some story they heard on Voice of America.
Based on the same "L'Osservatore Romano" article cited here. Generally the Jerusalem Post is reliable, but given the rather strange accusations being made, I thought it would be helpful to link to the same charge against "L'Osservatore Romano" from Catholic News Service. Israel's willingness to send aid has been documented in dozens of stories, and in fact the 4 person advance team was one of the first I've read about arriving on the scene.
It seems you have a very hard time distinguishing what is and what is not an attack on Cathlocisim. Most on this board, myself included, have a hard time with anyone from the Vatican issuing critical statements of those trying to offer held in the time of a disaster. Regardless of their beliefs about the middle east problems, the statement made by the editorial shows a complete lack of factual understanding and a knee jerk criticism of Israel when the opposite, in this case, was true.
Whoever allowed this article into print in the Vatican newspaper.
You prove my point, in total denial, resorting to the old "We are such victims" manta rather than recognize a mistake and deal with it.
There, that makes more sense.
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