And leftists have hurt Jews more then Christians or muslims. Look at the words of socialism's own founders Marx and Proudhon. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2606505/posts
These Bishops are running the same game leftist have ran over here for decades - 'he only kills, robs and rapes because of discrimination'.
Call me sadly ignorant of recent Jewish history, but did God tell the Jews to return to Israel and restore his state there?
In fact, the working document of the two-week synod accused the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories for creating difficulties in everyday life for Palestinian Christians, including their religious life since their access to holy sites is dependent on Israeli military permission. Pope Benedict XVI called the two-week synod...Thanks citizenredstater9271.
This Jew disagrees with you. There's nothing in the Bible, or in Judaism, that requires a 100% Jewish-only state in the Land of Israel. Many non-Israelites lived in ancient Israel, some having been given special protection by Joshua Ben-Nun (Joshua 6:17-25; 9:6-27).
Even if Israel was a theocratic Jewish state (it's not), Jewish law would require affording non-Jews who aren't idolaters full civil rights and equal protection. (Exodus 22:20 -- "You shall not wrong or oppress a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt") (Leviticus 19:33-34 -- "When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.")
The Roman Catholic Bishops participating in this are, I am presuming, NOT naive, and therefor I find a grave moral relativism and moral hypocrisy in the particular position noted above. It is morally relativistic and hypocritical because it pretends that there are are not life threatening causes, as opposed to mere “political” intransigence, which justify the security measures that the Israelis MUST make, in their own defense.
If Israel's neighbors were merely a political opposition that was using peaceful political means, in their differences with the Israelis, the conditions the Bishops are complaining about would not be erected by the Israelis. The Bishops are not stupid. They know that to be the case. They know the foundation of the conditions they are complaining about are caused by the violence that Israel MUST protect its citizens against. Knowing that that violence is not going to disappear just because the Israelis drop their guard, while complaining about the conditions that having that guard imposes, makes the Bishops sound NOT like counselors of morals and faith but political counselors on a political agenda.
Why does the Roman Catholic Church keep allowing a voice, and sometimes a megaphone, for European antisemitism from within the ranks of its own leaders?
What is so bad about this policy is that it is foolish. The revolution in Iran had nothing.nada.nichts to do with the situation in the Holy Land. They only care to weaken the power of Israel since it is the only modern state in the Middle East
(yes, this includes Turkey.).