Posted on 03/06/2007 6:14:27 AM PST by Alouette
Hours after historic visit to Jerusalem holocaust museum, group of German bishops tour Palestinian Authority, say Israel behaving like Nazis
Eldad Beck Published: 03.06.07, 10:24 / Israel News
BERLIN - "This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto." Several hours earlier on Sunday you probably would not have heard German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke choose such a divisive analogy.
But then on Sunday morning he was still in Israel and the rhetoric was considerably different than the one elected by the German Bishops' Conference once they crossed over in to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday evening.
The visit of 27 members of the German Bishops' Conference to Israel included a historic first-time visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem as well as guided tours of sites holy to Christianity and meetings with Christian congregations in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority.
During their time in Israel the bishops uniformly made moderate and balanced statements, but once in the PA they provided German reporters accompanying them with a plethora of harsh proclamations against Israel. Their criticism received widespread coverage in the German media on Monday.
While crossing one of the checkpoints into East Jerusalem the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, told reporters: "This is something that is done to animals, not people." Meisner, a resident of eastern Germany, said that the fence reminded him of the Berlin Wall and that in his lifetime he did not believe he would see such a thing again. As the Berlin Wall was brought down so will this wall be brought down, he said, adding that the fence served no purpose.
The delegation's visit to Ramallah took place several hours after their visit to Yad Vashem and several of the bishops chose to equate the situation in the Palestinian Authority with the Holocaust.
"Cages in the image of ghettos," said the Bishop of Augsburg of the territories. Augsburg was once under the spiritual leadership of Pope Benedict XVI, who was Archbishop of the Munich-Freising Archdiocese and his brother Monsignor Georg Ratzinger still resides there.
"Israel has, of course, the right to exist, but this right cannot be realized in such a brutal manner," said Bishop Hanke, who later stated that he intends to amend this year's Easter message to German churches so as to include the delegation's political impressions from their visit to the territories and a demand to change the situation.
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Only 6 barfies? This is some chutzpah from the bishops!
I just visited Dachau this past week. They HAVE ALOT OF FU#*ING NERVE EQUATING ANYTHING ISRAEL DOES WITH THE NAZIS. BASTARDS.
There's just something about the Germans that compels them toward mindless Nazism.
The RCC needs to clean house.
During their time in Israel the bishops uniformly made moderate and balanced statements, but once in the PA they provided German reporters accompanying them with a plethora of harsh proclamations against Israel. Their criticism received widespread coverage in the German media on Monday.
Hypocrites. They obviously had the whole thing planned out ahead of time. They behave themselves in "Israel Proper" and then when they are in "the territories" (also part of 'Eretz Yisra'el) they let loose with the comments they probably had written up before the trip.
"Israel has, of course, the right to exist
Somehow, I doubt he really believe that.
but this right cannot be realized in such a brutal manner," said Bishop Hanke, who later stated that he intends to amend this year's Easter message to German churches so as to include the delegation's political impressions from their visit to the territories and a demand to change the situation.
Hmmm. Maybe he'll call for a pogrom while he's at it.
Oh well. At least these are sophisticated, intellectual, liberal, higher critical Catholics and not those awful buck-toothed, inbred, congenitally stupid Bible-thumping "Fundies." I'm sure another meeting in the Vatican with Our Good Friend the Pope will straighten everything out. At least they weren't handing out tracts or saying "y'all better git saved!!!" or something really horrible like that. Why, that's worse than the Holocaust!!! [/sarcasm]
How long will Jews ignore, discourage, and even punish their true friends the "Bible chr*stians" and reward the liberal, higher critical churches???
May G-d reward these good people, for the Jews apparently never will.
Who cares what a bunch of chess pieces say?
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German Bishops accusing Israel of acting like Nazis. I'll let others respond, this is too easy.
The wall in Berlin divided ONE PEOPLE in TWO COUNTRIES.
The wall at WB divides TWO PEOPLE in ONE COUNTRY.
The wall in Berlin divided ONE PEOPLE in TWO COUNTRIES.
The wall at WB divides TWO PEOPLES in ONE COUNTRY.
Yasser skimmed his share, but a lot of it went to support the intifada, textbooks, incitement, arms. It's all expensive, and the EU provided the support. The US too.
If that's the case, then either Israel doesn't exist, or the palestinian authority doesn't exist.
For 15 years the EU and the US have been attempting to establish a palestinian state. The vast majority of the people on the east side of the WB fence, and in Gaza, behind a fence, are under the control of the palestinian authority, not Israel.
Now, where´s the seat with voting rights for the PA in the United Nations? Where´s the seat with voting rights for the PA in the Arab League? Where are the PA-Ambassadors in the capitals of the world? The PA may be a wanna-be state, but I don´t recall the state of Israel giving up its sovereignty (= the ultimate right to come back and take control again) of the territories Gaza and West Bank.
The next Jew who meets this schmuck should beat the living crap out of him.
Has this scumbag every seen the aftermath of a Palestinian suicide bombing? Or perhaps to him, Jews ARE animals.
What does the "Bishop" think of German authorities who kidnap the children of Christian homeschooling parents? Peachy keen?
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