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Pope Leo Snubs Trump’s Board of Peace, Citing UN Concerns — But Vatican’s Anti-Israel Record Speaks for Itself
Israel 365 News ^ | 2/20/26 | Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

Posted on 02/21/2026 2:40:38 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

The Vatican has a long memory when it comes to blocking American-led peace initiatives — and a short one when it comes to recognizing Jewish rights in the Land of Israel. When Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, announced Tuesday that Pope Leo would not be joining U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly formed Board of Peace, he framed the decision in procedural language about the United Nations. But for anyone who has watched the Holy See’s decades-long pattern of hostility toward Israeli sovereignty, the refusal carries a familiar echo.

Parolin made the announcement on the sidelines of a bilateral meeting with the Italian government in Rome, at the Palazzo Borromeo — the seat of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See — on the anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Pacts. “The Holy See will not participate in the Board of Peace because of its particular nature, which is evidently not that of other States,” Parolin told journalists. He elaborated that the Vatican’s core objection was jurisdictional: “One concern is that at the international level it should above all be the UN that manages these crisis situations. This is one of the points on which we have insisted.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the decision “deeply unfortunate.”

The Board of Peace, chaired by Trump, was initially conceived to oversee Gaza’s demilitarization and reconstruction following the Hamas terrorist organization’s October 7 massacre. Its mandate has since expanded. Trump has said its work will “go far beyond Gaza.”

(Excerpt) Read more at israel365news.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antisemeticleo; boardofpeace; popeleo; trump; un; vatican

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Deuteronomy 7:6-8 6 "For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Reading is HARD for "christians"....

1 posted on 02/21/2026 2:40:38 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
The Holy See insists that the UN should remain the primary body for managing international affairs to avoid undermining the established post-WWII international order.

All they had to do was to say nothing.

2 posted on 02/21/2026 2:43:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
The Holy See insists that the UN should remain the primary body for managing international affairs to avoid undermining the established post-WWII international order.

More like The Wholly Blind.

3 posted on 02/21/2026 2:57:57 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Indulgences, wealth hoarding, and faggot sex/pedophilia are the most important to the Vatican.


4 posted on 02/21/2026 2:59:27 PM PST by ChuckHam
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To: All

Comments BUMP!


5 posted on 02/21/2026 3:37:00 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What a gosh darn shame that the first US born pope is yet another FAILURE.


6 posted on 02/21/2026 3:37:41 PM PST by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Citing UN Concerns

The BOP is brilliant. Trump just owned the UN which is about to go bankrupt and sold off at auction for pennies for its worthless rotting carcass.

7 posted on 02/21/2026 3:52:25 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MinorityRepublican

I would say a few good history lessons might give him a clue...How could he be not be knowledgeable about the history of the Vatican after WWII in Germany and the exodus provided by the Vatican for Nazi war criminals out of the country not to mention the lackluster work of the UN since its inception??


8 posted on 02/21/2026 3:58:43 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: MinorityRepublican
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. (Nehemiah 2:10)
See Popes Against the Jews and more in part 5 of a series (1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5, 6 .(not to excuse Luther's later reactions: More here on this Nazi-Luther issue,): https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4263344/posts?page=41#41
9 posted on 02/21/2026 4:00:49 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Bishops stuck in 20th century.


10 posted on 02/21/2026 4:01:45 PM PST by Bayard
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Esav (Esau) is Rome and Rome is Esav. His descendants started Rome and has always been against Israel (Jacob) and their descendants.


11 posted on 02/21/2026 4:13:46 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Right, seeing the Arabs as equal to the Jews in anti-Israel.


12 posted on 02/21/2026 4:17:58 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

My mother always told us kids that we didn’t have to go to church to speak to God, nor did we have to go through a middleman (priest) to confess our sins to God. I’ve been snubbing the Vatican since Pope Mario, and will continue to snub them with this idiot Leo.


13 posted on 02/21/2026 4:19:52 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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"I would say a few good history lessons might give him a clue...How could he be not be knowledgeable about the history of the Vatican after WWII in Germany and the exodus provided by the Vatican for Nazi war criminals out of the country not to mention the lackluster work of the UN since its inception??"

Austrian Bishop Alois Hudal helped establish the rat lines that the likes of Adolf Eichmann used to board a ship in Italy, and escape Europe to Argentina...all with the help of the Red Cross.

14 posted on 02/21/2026 4:27:09 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Pope needs to watch this vid and get a clue

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367796/posts

TRUMP NAMED THEM: The Real “Foreign Interests”
Promethean Updates ^ | 2/21/2026 | Susan Kokinda
Posted on 2/21/2026, 4:47:59 PM by cuz1961

Trump’s response to the Supreme Court tariff ruling points beyond China to “foreign interests” tied to the British Empire’s Adam Smith free-trade ideology, defended by the US Chamber of Commerce and Cato Institute. She cites Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ambassador Jamieson Greer framing the administration’s approach as Hamiltonian economic sovereignty, and says tariffs will continue under other laws, including a new 10% global tariff. She contrasts this with Thursday’s Board of Peace meeting, where 60 nations backed “peace through construction,” funding housing, security, and development, rejecting Kissinger-style managed conflict. She warns midterm demoralization risks ending Trump’s agenda.

RT 14 m 35 s


15 posted on 02/21/2026 4:55:20 PM PST by cuz1961
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yeah. God forbid that a Pope would be interested in peace. 🙄


16 posted on 02/21/2026 5:03:39 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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Leo, you should stay out of international affairs and attend to the Vatican money laundering.


17 posted on 02/21/2026 5:08:34 PM PST by Ronald77 ( )
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To: Petrosius
Right, seeing the Arabs as equal to the Jews in anti-Israel.

Do you see the Canaanites as "equal" to the ancient Israelites in Ancient Israel?

18 posted on 02/21/2026 5:25:33 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Why would we want that queer on the peace council anyway?


19 posted on 02/21/2026 6:16:03 PM PST by JAKraig
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Solomon was anti-Israel in the end and he built the First Temple that God didn’t even want. Riddle me that. You have been brainwashed by Scolfield’s crap.


20 posted on 02/21/2026 6:23:41 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Not this world but the next. Faith, justice, humility, hope, and most important, agape.)
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