Posted on 07/27/2005 5:48:38 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Not on par with reselling our tech to the Chinese, but still pretty dumb.
China can now deliver nuclear warheads to American cities because of technology acquired from one of the following countries: a. Israel. b. the United States. hint; Tony and john Podesta, Sun Microsystems
Maybe the oversight had something to do with the fact that he's spent at least part of his vacation practicing reciting the Psalms in Hebrew so that when he is in Cologne for World Youth Day, next month, and visits the synagogue there (infuriating a certain wing of Catholicism), he can pray the Psalms with his Jewish hosts in Hebrew.
The first letter of his Pontificate was a birthday greeting to the elderly Chief Rabbi of Rome, together with a personal invitation to the Rabbi to be a guest of honor at the papal installation (which the Rabbi could not do because of the Holy Days).
Oh yes, the Jerusalem Post has every right to say that "so far Benedictus XVI falls short".
Stick a sock in it.
VERY well put!
Wasn't one that I saw. Did you catch that.
Someone else at the Vatican spoke, and first reports in AP and other Islamofascist press organs suggested that the Pope was concerned that Israel regularly violates international law by resisting foreign attacks ~ something like that.
I suspect there is a group at the Vatican who would like nothing better than to lead folks into believing the Pope is an "hereditary Nazi". This is something to be watched closely in the future.
First, is that the Catholic Church and Pope Pius in particular have been viciously and unfairly maligned as pro-Hitler/Nazi. To the extent Jews have joined in that slander, or passed it by with indifference, it is understandibly resented bitterly. The pope and Catholics assisted Jews at great risk, and from great love. It is perceived that Jews spit in the face of the Church for the cheap thrill of victimhood, regardless of the truth.
Second, the Church has appeared phoney and juvenile in its lack of condemnation of the brutal killing of Jews in Israel. There is zero reason why the Church should not be in the forefront of the defense of Jews in the mid-east. But the Church is not, and gives any rational person the impression that the Church doesnt care if Jews are brutally murdered in Israel.
The two are connected.
Christians and Jews should love one another and cut out the baloney.
Perhaps the Pope will feel differently if the terrorists start attacking the Vatican on a weekly basis. If Catholics are targeted for murder every single day for decades, will the Pope want to take the terrorists ..... to court?
The relationship Catholics have with Israel is very strange..
Clemenza to Israel and the Vatican: "Get a room you two!"
I have seen this on Catholic websites. Seems Israel had a hidden agenda. ah politics is a messy thing. It seems very foolish for the israelis to get the Vatican and the Pope offside after all the hard work that the Catholic church has done in recent years to change the antisemitic attitudes of some of their faithful. This kind of behaviour only gives fuel to the anti-semites. It seems to many that it is all one way, the church has made all the apologies and changes and the Jews are strident and demanding and not compromising one inch themselves.
"But perhaps, Israel’s hastily prepared screed was just an opportunity to use the Pope’s statement as a smokescreen. AsiaNews reports that Israel’s out-of-proportion complaint was meant to justify their decision to break off talks with the Vatican planned for Monday.
These negotiations, explicitly mandated by Israel’s 1993 Fundamental Agreement with the Holy See - the international treaty that is the “magna charta” of all relations between the Jewish State and the Catholic Church - have the purpose of achieving a new treaty to confirm the Church’s centuries’ old tax exemptions and property rights, which have been eroded by the State since its establishment. The negotiations began officially on 11 March 1999. However, in recent years Israel has been reluctant even to meet the Holy See to negotiate, and on 28 August 2003, the Israeli delegation abandoned the negotiations altogether, and only came back to the table a year later in response to pressure from the Church and the Government of the United States. After agreeing to very few meetings in 2005, Israel agreed to meet on 19 July, only to cancel the meeting at the last moment, and have it transferred to 25 July. Apparently Israeli officials feared the consequences of cancelling this meeting too at the very last moment, so they contrived to find fault with the papal Angelus address to cover up their non-compliance with their treaty obligation to negotiate with the Holy See.
The crux of the negotiations is a desire by the Church to set up a legally binding covenant regarding the work of the Church in Holy Land, including standards for the rights of religious workers, property rights, and the legal rights for the Church as a whole. I think part of the problem here is that Israel sees the Catholic Church as being too sympathetic to Palestinians, who make up a large part of the Church’s flock in the Holy Land. "
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