Posted on 07/17/2025 2:56:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
The White House states President Donald Trump’s reaction to this morning’s Israeli military strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza was “not positive” and prompted a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At around 10:20 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Holy Family Catholic Church compound “was struck by the Israeli army” killing at least three and injuring nine others “including one in critical condition and two in serious condition,” according to a statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
During a White House press briefing today Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Trump’s reaction to the bombing and responded, “It was not a positive reaction. He called Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning to address the strikes on that church in Gaza. And I understand the Prime Minister agreed to put out a statement.”
She went on to claim, “it was a mistake by the Israelis to hit that Catholic Church. That’s what the Prime Minister relayed to the President. And you should look at the Prime Minister’s statement on that.”
But according to The Pillar, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, expressed doubts that the strike on the church was a mistake.
“What we know for sure is that a tank, the IDF says by mistake, but we are not sure about this, they hit the church directly, the Church of the Holy Family, the Latin Church.”
“We don’t have complete information about what has happened in Gaza today because the communication in Gaza is not that simple,” the Franciscan cardinal said.
However, the Catholic outlet went on to report that “sources close to the patriarchate’s chancery” told them “Church authorities were considering the possibility that the tank attack” upon the church was “a deliberate act of retaliation” for Church authorities speaking out on Monday against violent terrorist attacks by Israeli settlers against the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank.
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The statement by these Christian authorities in the Holy Land charged Israeli authorities with facilitating and enabling the attacks upon Christians and other Palestinians in the occupied territories.
“We call for an immediate and transparent investigation into why the Israeli police did not respond to emergency calls from the local community and why these abhorrent actions continue to go unpunished,” the prelates demanded.
“Furthermore, we ask diplomats, politicians, and church officials worldwide to provide a prayerful and outspoken voice for our ecumenical community in Taybeh, that their presence may be secured and that they can live in peace to worship freely, grow crops without danger, and live in a peace that seems to be in far too short of supply,” the statement said.
Don’t even TRY to say that Gentile Christians go through the same perception in Israel that we do. And so did the 1st Century Messianic Jews, you know, the ONES GOD USED TO BRING THE GOSPEL INTO THE EARTH. The wild branch should not boast over the natural branches that have been re- grafted in.
I hardly recognize FR. All of these anti semitic losers here. I can’t believe it.
I’m a Catholic.
Are you a godless Zionist?
Proverbs 12:15.
The cardinal is the church’s representative.
you posted the cardinal doubts the strike is a mistake, so israel is lying about it.
you post
We call for an immediate and transparent investigation into why the Israeli police did not respond to emergency calls from the local community and why these abhorrent actions continue to go unpunished,” the prelates demanded.
therefore, you want catholics and the rest of the world to attack israel and the jewish people
pretty clear you don’t care about what the radical islamic jihadist have done to christians in muslim controlled lands, because people asked why you won’t say anything about that...
you want israel and the jewish people to be attacked under color of the catholic church
Huckabee was called an anti Semite, an idiot, and a fool for calling this out. Imagine that.
This is not a new thing, but a custom rooted in the Talmud.
In his book, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of 3,000 Years, the late Holocaust survivor and Israeli citizen Israel Shahak writes:
"We have mentioned in Chapter 2 the rule according to which a pious Jew must utter curse when passing near a Gentile cemetery, whereas he must bless God when passing near a Jewish cemetery. A similar rule applies to the living; thus, when seeing a large Jewish population a devout Jew must praise God, while upon seeing a large Gentile population he must utter a curse.
"Nor are buildings exempt: the Talmud lays down that a Jew who passes near an inhabited non-Jewish dwelling must ask God to destroy it, whereas if the building is in ruins he must thank the Lord of Vengeance. (Naturally, the rules are reversed for Jewish houses.)
"This rule was easy to keep for Jewish peasants who lived in their own villages or for small urban communities living in all-Jewish townships or quarters. Under the conditions of classical Judaism, however, it became impracticable and was therefore confined to churches and places of worship of other religions (except Islam).
"In this connection, the rule was further embroidered by custom: it became customary to spit (usually three times) upon seeing a church or a crucifix, as an embellishment to the obligatory formula of regret. Sometimes insulting biblical verses were also added."
All of your posts in this thread confuse me. I don't know if it's typos, or if you're drunk. What happened 4,000 years ago?
I assume he's very emotional when he types, and so he types very quickly and carelessly.
Ok, Israel being destroyed, the Juhdean Isralitirs being kicked out, kicked out again by the Romans, made to wander the Earth persecuted. All thos happened according to disobedience l. But the LORD also promised to bring us back into the land.
Jewscare not a race, we are a people group. There are black Jews and Latino Jews,Chinise Jews, and Indian Jews.
It’s the phone also.
You cannot deny that you give comfort to terrorists. Own it.
I am a Zionist. So what?
True. But playing the Anti-Semitism Card is the same as playing the Race Card. So it's appropriate to draw parallels.
That "land" is salvation in Christ, the forgiveness of sins, and admission to the New Jerusalem in Heaven.
I also have typos when I type on a phone. But I always go back to correct before sending. It’s time consuming, I know.
Amen, cva.
Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi.
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