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Rice calls for peace after prayer in Bethlehem
AFP Via Yahoo ^ | 10-17-07

Posted on 10/17/2007 12:19:14 PM PDT by yankeesdoodle

"These great monotheist religions that have inhabited this land together have an opportunity to overcome differences, to put aside grievances, to make the power of religion a power of healing and a power of reconciliation.

"What these great holy sites remind us of is that the three great religions indeed share a common vision of peace and a common vision of our humanity. That is what I will ultimately take away from this visit," she said.

Palestinian tourism minister Khulud Duaibess, who accompanied Rice and her entourage around the church, told reporters he hoped the visit had inspired the diplomat with new motivation to prepare for a US-sponsored peace meeting.

"I hope it will provide the secretary

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: bush; condirice; dhimmi; dividingtheland; israel; palestine
I really used to love this woman. I really did. Notice how the leftist press praises her now as a holy woman since she's spewing their script--

"said the top US diplomat, a devout Christian whose father and grandfather were Presbyterian ministers"

Too bad her "prayer" was satanic--

"What these great holy sites remind us of is that the three great religions indeed share a common vision of peace and a common vision of our humanity. That is what I will ultimately take away from this visit"

I'm seriously going to puke. Equating Jesus with Allah. Somebody get me a bucket- quick. Maybe she was praying to Molech? The article wasn't specific about that...

1 posted on 10/17/2007 12:19:18 PM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: yankeesdoodle

“What these great holy sites remind us of is that the three great religions indeed share a common vision of peace and a common vision of our humanity”

Let me count...Christianity, Judaism...what’s the third religion of peace? Was Buddha ever in Jerusalem?


2 posted on 10/17/2007 12:20:53 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: yankeesdoodle

I wonder whether Madam Secretary is aware that one of those three great religions that has an opportunity to make peace today has spent the least 15 years driving adherents of another one of those three great religions out of the city of Bethlehem, where those adherents (ie the Christians) used to be a majority but are now a distinct minority. I wish i understood what benefit anybody could possibly expect from closing their eyes to reality in the way the State Department people do with Muslims (as they used to do with communists).


3 posted on 10/17/2007 12:22:59 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: yankeesdoodle
"These great monotheist religions that have inhabited this land together have an opportunity to overcome differences, to put aside grievances, to make the power of religion a power of healing and a power of reconciliation."

Meanwhile, the oldest Christian communities in the world are persecuted into non-existence before her eyes and the unseeing eyes of the rest of the world.
4 posted on 10/17/2007 12:23:10 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: yankeesdoodle
Two are religions, the third is the political system of rule founded by a conquering warlord.
5 posted on 10/17/2007 12:23:52 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: yankeesdoodle

I’ll remember Condi’s “sage” words the next time the Muslims riot because some Jewish person wants to visit the Temple Mount, or the next time Muslims burn down or trash a Jewish or Christian holy site (as they did the Church of the Nativity a few years ago).


6 posted on 10/17/2007 12:25:26 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: yankeesdoodle

There are many Muslims who are not violent and we are never going to get rid of Islam so sometimes we got to talk crap to keep the violent ones isolated from the peaceful ones.


8 posted on 10/17/2007 12:28:46 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: yankeesdoodle
Rice calls for peace after prayer in Bethlehem

Oh.

OK then.

9 posted on 10/17/2007 12:29:50 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Oh, exactly— I realize she’s a diplomat, and you can’t verbally flamethrow these folks, but in this situation, why don’t we (Condi), just keep OUR MOUTHS SHUT! What’s the old saying? If you can’t say something nice...


10 posted on 10/17/2007 12:30:22 PM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"and we are never going to get rid of Islam "

Oh, and yes, we won't get rid of Islam, but I know Someone who will.

11 posted on 10/17/2007 12:31:58 PM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: weegee
Have no fear.

DOS is all over this problem.


12 posted on 10/17/2007 12:33:45 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: weegee

...That is cloaked in a robe called “religion”.


13 posted on 10/17/2007 12:42:49 PM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: weegee

...That is cloaked in a robe called “religion”.


14 posted on 10/17/2007 12:43:10 PM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: yankeesdoodle
If Condi Rice were a follower of the Christ
and read and understood the Holy Word of Elohim,
she would understand that there will be no peace
in G-d's Holy Land until Yah'shua returns.

That will only occur when the Israeli nation
cry out for their salvation by calling on his name:

Yah'shua (YHvH is become my salvation )

shalom b'shem Yah'shua

15 posted on 10/17/2007 1:02:30 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: XeniaSt

You put it so poetically... Me, I’m more of a practical guy. I’ll put it this way...

Archeologists in the (near) future are going to travel to Israel, and they’ll find a charred tooth, or a piece of burned pottery, and they’ll say— “could this be a Palestinian piece?” And another scientist will say,” no, they lived more over in this area”, and he’ll wave his hand one way or another.

Let’s just say that for the Muslims, now would be a good time to fill out those organ-donor cards.


16 posted on 10/17/2007 1:09:31 PM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: yankeesdoodle; Yehuda; Lijahsbubbe; sheik yerbouty; aculeus; dighton; Quix; dennisw; Nachum; ...
What these great holy sites remind us of is that the three great religions indeed share a common vision of peace and a common vision of our humanity.

The odor of what emanates from her mouth is enough to choke a skunk.

17 posted on 10/17/2007 7:33:49 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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While it wasn't pleasant for Jews and Christians, she's right that through the Ottoman years there was relative peace. If, as I presume Condi does, one considers some level of religious and political tolerance a function of peace, not much to look at there for a couple millenia, other than 60 years of Israel.

I understand this must have been a moving personal experience for Condi, perhaps best not mixed with diplomacy.

The vision of peace, visiting Jerusalem, then Bethlehem, must be inspiring for her. Particularly with the power to make a change.

But it's a Bethlehem which a Jew couldn't live in, a fact she's OK with as she is with all the West Bank and Gaza, and a town which Christians are being driven out of. And the US would never address those abuses.

What do we do, call genocide, genocide?

Condi is missing the forest, I'm not shure she sees the trees.

18 posted on 10/17/2007 7:44:17 PM PDT by SJackson (every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, none to make him afraid,)
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To: Thinkin' Gal

Definitely rancid.


19 posted on 10/17/2007 7:47:54 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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