Posted on 07/14/2006 3:23:40 PM PDT by elizabethr
Here is the situation: World leaders are lining up, either on the side of the Islamic terrorists (Chirac and Putin) or the side of their victims (the United States and -- somewhat -- Great Britain). The Vatican, which has an unsavory record in regard to the periodic slaughters of the Jews has thrown its moral weight (such as it is these days) onto the scales against the Jews. As the Hizbollah terrorists fire hundreds of rockets into Israeli cities from Lebanon and the Pope condemns Israel's attempts to destroy the rockets aimed at its citizens, Israel's chief of staff is forced to concede that those rockets can reach farther than previously thought, putting more Israelis in danger. Meanwhile, the Syrian terrorist state tells Time magazine that it could destroy Israel's nuclear sites. Hizbollah, Hamas, Iran and Syria occupy areas that are one hundred times the size of Israel and the populations they control are ten times the size of Israel's. Hizbollah and Hamas, and their patron Iran, have sworn to remove Israel from the face of the earth -- in those very words. Iran has defied the world community in asserting its determination to complete its nuclear program. Syria supports Iran, hosts Hamas and is a party to this malignant Islamic crusade. Behind them stand Russia and China and North Korea, and also apparently the international left which is lining up squarely behind the jihadists -- and has been doing so throughout the open preparation of this second holocaust. The left's favorite apostle Noam Chomsky only months ago was embracing Hizbollah's Hitler, Hassan Nasrallah, and his genocidal agendas.
So here is the issue: If you were Israel's prime minister, could you afford to wait until Iran attains nuclear warheads for Hizbollah's missiles? Or can you be sure it hasn't already been supplied such warheads by Russia or China through Iran? Could you afford to wait to see if Syria will supply the chemical and biological weapons it has cached for Saddam Hussein to Hizbollah and Hamas? Or would you proceed to plan B and obliterate them now?
While the Israeli prime minister ponders this question, leftists who are encouraging the forces of genocide -- Hizbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran -- might want to think how all the present bloodshed and the next terrible decisions that Israel must take to defend itself -- and their consequences -- will lie on their heads.
HOLY SEE CONDEMNS VIOLENCE IN MIDDLE EAST
VATICAN CITY, JUL 14, 2006 (VIS) - Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano today made the following declaration on Vatican Radio:
"The news we are receiving from the Middle East is certainly worrying. The Holy Father Benedict XVI and all his collaborators are following with great attention the latest dramatic episodes, which risk degenerating into a conflict with international repercussions.
"As in the past, the Holy See also condemns both the terrorist attacks on the one side and the military reprisals on the other. Indeed, a State's right to self-defense does not exempt it from respecting the norms of international law, especially as regards the protection of civilian populations. In particular, the Holy See deplores the attack on Lebanon, a free and sovereign nation, and gives assurances of its closeness to those people who have suffered so much in the defense of their own independence.
"Once again, it appears obvious that the only path worthy of our civilization is that of sincere dialogue between the contending parties."
Anyone care to bet that the emphasized sentences made it into the arabnews report?
And -- given that the Vatican is one of the historical cradles of diplospeak -- does anyone else here think the line "those people who have suffered so much in the defense of their own independence" might just be a reference to the people who declared that independence on May 14, 1948??
If that makes you want to cry and complain about me to your boyfriend, fine.
"That part about the Vatican and the Jews is pure incediary device."
Agreed. So incendiary that I suspect it is planted for a good reason, the smoke of war takes many forms and it can be a shield.
Horowitz is periodically an idiot. Just look at his checkered past -- and his uninformed comments on the Vatican; he's a political bipolar disorder.
Do you have any idea what was actually said, other than what Horowitz is spinning?
This has been going on for centuries. It has nothing to do with The President.
What are you talking about? Iran, as far as we know, doesn't have a nuke yet or they would have used it by now. The whole point of this thread is to ascertain whether or not Israel is going to take care of terrorist states now while it can, or gamble their very existance away in "hopes" their mortal enemies will all of a sudden become civilized.
Israel is going to be blamed and cursed no matter what she does. It's high time she started acting in her own self interest for a change, and to hell with the rest of the world!
I'd rather have the nuclear destruction of Tehran and Damascus than see the defeat of Israel (even if it were done with conventional weapons). Another Hiroshima would be preferable to a defeated Israel.
It is and he isn't. So sorry, your claim has been falsified.
I'm sure you have proof of that.
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