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'Concentration camp' remark threatens Pope's visit to Israel
London Times ^
| January 8, 2009
| Richard Owen
Posted on 01/08/2009 9:46:55 PM PST by Steelfish
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:46:56 PM PST
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Martino has a reputation for being an idiot and saying stupid things.
Let’s hope Il Papa dumps him immediately, since he’s past the age of retirement.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:51:30 PM PST
by
BlessedBeGod
(Obama's not my president, and Blagojevich is not my governor.)
To: Steelfish
Is Pope Benedict supposed to have made this remark? It doesn’t sound like him.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:51:45 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: Steelfish
In his annual speech to diplomats in the Vatican the Pope sought to damp down the dispute. The best way to do that is to say that the Cardinal was out of line in comparing Gaza to a concentration camp.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:51:56 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: nickcarraway
No, not BXVI: An idiotic liberal Cardinal.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:52:45 PM PST
by
Steelfish
(Our Winning Video)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:53:10 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
To: All
Excommunicate him - and then shoot him.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:58:45 PM PST
by
Uhaul
(Time to water the tree of liberty...)
To: Steelfish
The military solution is never an option, he saidSo, Israel should just go on absorbing rockets and mortars indefinitely.
If they were pumping rockets into Vatican City, I'm sure the cardinal would roll over and take it.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:59:01 PM PST
by
FlyVet
To: Steelfish
If the Vatican, and I repeat, IF, the Vatican cannot tell evil from good, then we are in trouble. The UN can indulge in moral equivalency, but not the Vatican.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:59:06 PM PST
by
norge
To: Steelfish
I don’t pay any attention to what Cardinal Martino says. I wish everyone else didn’t either.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:59:13 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: nickcarraway
He didnt say this, a prominent cardinal did.
After the Pope fires that man , he should be allowed in.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:59:58 PM PST
by
NoLibZone
(Islam must be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth.)
To: Steelfish
...after a prominent cardinal said that Gazans were living in a big concentration camp.Its' they're own fault (Pali-Arabs), They lost "the War in '48 "
The surrounding Arab Rulers; at the time ordered the Pali-Arabs to evacuate their lands/properties in '48, So they could launch unfetter attacks on the Israeli Forces....well, the Arabs lost, very badly.
If the Pali-Arabs, would committed to peace instead of "rocketing" the Israeli, every night.
They (& the Israeli), could've had one of the highest standard of living in the Mideast (if not Asia) by now.
"Troika / Footstool of Liberalism...Corruption, Nationalization & Propaganda" Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.ORourke
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posted on
01/08/2009 10:09:21 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
To: Steelfish
As usual, the Vatican's timing for those comments is very telling.
Vatican Condemns Israel for Attacks on Lebanonhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665678/posts
Hopefully, our US Government won't follow the cue this time.
US pressure prompts delay of [Israel's] offensive ("We do not want escalations" - White House)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680983/posts
Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast-State Department seeks to delay supplyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681771/posts
Commencement Address at Boston College (Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Boston, Massachusetts, May 22, 2006.
US Department of State)
Excerpts:
As a student of a Catholic high school, the Sisters of Loretta taught me, I am pleased to be at an institution of higher education with such strong and celebrated Catholic and Jesuit traditions . . . You see, I got my Master's Degree at Notre Dame. (Boos.) I acquired a passion for the fighting Irish . . . and my family has been college educated and Presbyterian ever since. (Laughter and applause.) . . . I wandered into a course on international politics taught by a Czech refugee who specialized in Soviet studies, a man who had a daughter by the name of Madeleine Albright. With that one class, I was hooked. I discovered that my passion was Russia and all things Russian.
Rice: Better to have Hamas in power than in streets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733397/posts
Rice: Palestinians deserve to live free of 'occupation'[at an event of pro-Palestinian group]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717847/posts
US Supplies Fatah With Arms, Rice Decries "Occupation"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718348/posts
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posted on
01/08/2009 10:13:30 PM PST
by
familyop
(combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
To: Uhaul
"Excommunicate him - and then shoot him. Wow. That's rough. Let me gues. Pre Vatican II guy?
To: norge
If the Vatican, and I repeat, IF, the Vatican cannot tell evil from good, then we are in trouble. The UN can indulge in moral equivalency, but not the Vatican.
It’s biblical, even the elect shall be deceived. Makes me wonder if we’re not indeed closing in, there’s just a certain surreal otherworldly lunacy in the air.
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posted on
01/08/2009 10:51:34 PM PST
by
tpanther
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
To: Steelfish
Pope Benedict did not say this bullshit. There are scumbag cardinals everywhere, whether Arabs or that illegals lover in L.A., or leftists like this one.
I am a Jew and I love this Pope. Please do not let this nonsense do anything to sully the trip to Israel.
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posted on
01/08/2009 11:01:52 PM PST
by
montag813
(www.FreepShop.com)
To: montag813
Oh I forgot that scumbag Jew-hater “Cardinal” Desmond Tutu, may be not be long for this earth.
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posted on
01/08/2009 11:03:33 PM PST
by
montag813
(www.FreepShop.com)
To: montag813
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posted on
01/08/2009 11:21:43 PM PST
by
Steelfish
(Our Winning Video)
To: montag813
I believe it would be a good idea for Israel to ask for clarification on this. It would motivate Pope Benedict to clarify the Vatican’s view on the Palestinian people, and whether they were being treated unfairly by Israel in light of current events.
Pope Benedict could then hit one out of the park, as they say.
I am not as familiar with his views as I should be. If he is going to Israel at all, it should be an indication that he is not diametrically opposed to the nation’s policies.
This statement was unfortunate, to put it mildly, and I realize the Pope did not make it.
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posted on
01/08/2009 11:29:12 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(I see that Kenya's favorite son has a new weekly Saturday morning radio show.)
To: LibFreeOrDie
Here's a picture of the old leper:
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