Posted on 01/08/2009 9:46:55 PM PST by Steelfish
'Concentration camp' remark threatens Pope's visit to Israel Pope Benedict is scheduled to visit the Holy Land in May Richard Owen in Rome A diplomatic row between Israel and the Vatican cast doubt over Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to the Holy Land yesterday, after a prominent cardinal said that Gazans were living in a “big concentration camp”. In his annual speech to diplomats in the Vatican the Pope sought to damp down the dispute. He said that the war was “provoking immense damage and suffering for the civilian populations” in Gaza and Israel. He urged “the rejection of hatred, acts of provocation and the use of arms” and added: “Violence, wherever it comes from and whatever form it takes, must be firmly condemned. The military solution is never an option,” he said. His remarks came amid outrage from Israelis over a statement by Cardinal Renato Martino, the head of the Vatican Council for Justice and Peace and a former Holy See envoy to the United Nations, who compared Gaza to a concentration camp. The cardinal criticised Israel for killing civilians who had taken shelter at a UNrun school in Gaza. Israeli officials said that they were “deeply shocked that a man of religion is using the vocabulary of Hamas propaganda”. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which monitors antiSemitism and hunts down Nazi war criminals, said that Cardinal Martino had used the language of a “Holocaust denier”.
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Maybe I was absent that day in school, but I don’t recall Jews shooting rockets at Nazi’s.
Martino strikes again.
This observation is ill timed, ill advised, and offensive. Cardinal Martino is a loose cannon who needs to be retired.
Clueless/Useful-Idiot Condi...this is the clue that noone has the nerve to investigate...Condi is a Commie, fer sur!
‘I wandered into a course on international politics taught by a Czech refugee (COMMUNIST) who specialized in Soviet studies, a man who had a daughter by the name of Madeleine Albright (COMMUNIST). With that one class, I was hooked. I discovered that my passion was Russia and all things Russian (COMMUNIST.
We now have Buchanan using the same remarks and even expanding on them.
This ill conceived comment has given aid and comfort to the islamofascists.
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