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 Vatican, like the UN, needs to let a few thousand bureaucrats go on permanent vacation
http://www.livius.org/am-ao/antisemitism/antisemitism01.html
A link of interest. The Romans weren't friendly to the Jews long before Christianity, and since Christianity became the official religion of Rome, it inherited that sentiment.
http://www.livius.org/am-ao/antisemitism/antisemitism01.html
A link of interest. The Romans weren't friendly to the Jews long before Christianity, and since Christianity became the official religion of Rome, it inherited that sentiment.
over a thousand years ago.
You said -- "I'm sure you know that the concept of papal infallibility doesn't apply to L'Osservatore Romano."
It also doesn't apply to the pope or anyone else in the Roman Catholic Church, just in case anyone is wondering.
Regards,
Star Traveler
There is way too much criticism going on about sensitivity, lack of aid, etc. The mess has got to be cleaned up first, the crticism can come at a later point.
RE: "When did the Vatican become antisemitic?"
A Catholic Timeline of Events Relating to
Jews, Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust
From the 3rd Century to the Beginning of the Third Millennium
http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/timeline.htm
Or anti-seismic?
I suspect The Vatican Newspaper, like the (US is stingy) Norweigan UN official, will declare their words inoperative. It's one thing for Europe, and the Vatican to criticize Israel's treatment of Palestinians, quite another for them to incorrectly report facts. But Israel is used to this kind of thing....I remember it happening when they tried to send assistance to Iran. Too bad the US can't (or won't) say to the Moslem world, "you won't accept assistance from Israel? Until you do, we'll assume you won't accept assistance from us either!
I would say the Liberal takeover of the Vatican is now complete.
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Same coverage in Catholic World News.
This, of course, refers to the Sri Lankan government, right? What in the world is going on at the Vatican. Can they not read all of a sudden?
Not really, I'll note the initial composition of the team below. Many emergency personell in Israel are military, thus deploying Doctors, nurses etc is a "military deployment" which is what Sri Lanka objected to. Like the US sending a hospital ship. The "reduced team" consists of the 4 individuals flown out immediately to assess the needs.
An IDF humanitarian and medical delegation will arrive to the area of devastation in Sri Lanka in the wake of the disaster. The delegation will be sent following the decision of the Defense Minister and the IDF Chief of Staff and in coordination with the Foreign Ministry.
The delegation will include approximately 150 rescue and medical personnel including doctors, nurses and paramedics, and will be under the command of the Chief of the Home-Front Command Staff, Brigadier General Avraham Ben David (Benda).
The delegation that will leave on IAF and leased aircraft, will be equipped with medical equipment and supplies, water, food and other equipment such as tents, blankets, mattresses and generators.
A medical facility will be assembled at the location, comprising of specialist doctors, an emergency department, an internal medicine department, a pediatric department as well as laboratory and X-ray facilities.
Absolutely. It has become ridiculous.
Same Sh**, Different Disaster.
same ping - different thread
"This is too rich for words. 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!"
Too many in the Vatican hierarchy are lib-Euros who are enamored of their "dialog" with Muslims, dislike the US, dislike Israel, and let no opportunity pass to castigate either the US, Israel, or both. No different from the rad-lib hierarchies in the mainline Protestant denominsations (Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc.) Same bunch of stale hippie leftovers that flunked tacky-and-tasteless 101 at Berkely or the local rad-"seminary" in 1968. For any of them, no matter what the US and Israel do or do not do, they will only receive criticism and condemnation from these CINOs.
No good deed goes unpunished, indeed!
Things like this keep reminding me why I am no longer a practicing Catholic.
This is true. If not for the United States, there would be no Israel, and there would be fewer Jews, too.
lol
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