Tarik Azziz just screwed up...Royally! [Wont Answer E-V-I-L Jew Questions Alert]

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[VaBthang4]

Was just watching Vatican Press Conference with Tarik Azziz and a member of the Israeli media stood up and asked a routine question about Iraqi missiles and Tarik Azziz dismissed his question and said it wasnt his purpose to come and answer questions of the Israeli media.

Cat calls and sneers shot out around the room and then a German reporter asked Azziz if he'd answer the same question put forward from a German reporter. Many reporters walked out of the room...Foxnews pulled the plug.

MSNBC didnt.

[CFC__VRWC]

DAMN! I hope this is the break we need!! I hope the world will see their hatred toward the jews!! PLEASE GOD LET IT BE SO!

Sorry to have to rain on your parade, but most of the world SHARES their hatred toward the Jews. Especially the French, Germans, and Saddam's useful idiots in the media and the "peace" movements.

[areafiftyone]

The Vatican may not endorse his regime but apparently, the vatican is choosing sides in this. I understand that war is a No No in the Catholic religion but they are throwing encouragement to Iraq - maybe not intentionally but they are doing it all the same. I am tired of these corrupt regimes using the Catholic religion when they need it. Arafat did that and still does that with the Church of the Nativity.

[Aquinasfan]

What's a Chaldean Christian?

Chaldean Christians are an ancient Catholic Rite, formerly Nestorians, they are now reunited with the Catholic Church.

[k2blader]

Thanks!!

[Tunehead54]

Grampa & All,

I recall that during the run up or actual war that Aziz was caught in several demonstrably untrue statements (those are "lies" for the diplospeak-challenged - and of course you folks in Rio Linda)- Anyone remember what it (they) were? Thanks in advance!

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Rush Joke:

Tom Delay and a frenchman argue over the Iraq question in the Dallas airport. Delay says "Well I can see we aren't going to agree on anything - by the way "Do you speak German?"

The frog - oops - frenchman looked puzzled and said "Non!"

Delay as he's walking away says "You're welcome".

[nfldgirl]

Hey, and no one is mentioning it at all on the news, anywhere! You would think the media would be all over this...

They're interested in mentioning something as volatile as this -- ad nauseam -- ONLY when it's spoken by a conservative/republican, and especially if can be tied directly to race.

[Coop]

The pope just screwed up. It's deja vu all over again, baby.

Yeah, this is the Pope's fault.

Geez, you're strange.

[FreedomCalls]

Notice that when most of the journalists stood up to leave the room, a reporter (Fisk?) from "The Independent" continued on as if nothing had happened. I guess The Independent has no problem with anti-semitism.

[NormsRevenge]

Hell, nowadays anything is worth a FoXNeWsAlErt!!

I rest my case. :-)

[A_perfect_lady]

I wonder what the scumbag anti-war demonstrators think of themselves now that they realize they have been defending a bunch of hateful Nazis.

Other than dupes like Michael Lerner, who apparently is only now realizing who he's in bed with, I think a lot of them are secret anti-Semites already and are perfectly in line with the program. The handful of college hippies who aren't will simply sink deeper, deciding that if their heroes hate Jews, there must be a reason and they will hate Jews too.

[k2blader]

Thank you!

[eyespysomething]

I think what he meant (and I apologize if I am wrong) was that we have countries full of oppressed, dehumanized people who could use a little help, and the Pope is meeting with one of those very oppressors, while, I haven't seen it, not helping those who are trapped in countries, Like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. And the Deja Vu is the Holocaust. I don't think he's blaming the Pope. But there are 2 sides to every story, and the Church is seeming to take the wrong one again. Please don't blast me ( /ducking now)

[Coop]

That "joke" was a story in yesterday's Washington Times. It occured at a recent party back in Texas.

[Aquinasfan]

I understand that war is a No No in the Catholic religion

In your opinion, how are "no no's" determined in the Catholic religion?

(Catholic Just War Doctrine)

[John H K]

Heck, half the cast of the Sopranos looks more "Middle Eastern" than a lot of Arabs...

Point is, you really can't LOOK "Middle Eastern"..it's a pretty meaningless statement and really often more means a style of dress and beard than someone's physical appearance.

You can look MEDITERRANEAN, which is what people actually mean.

And of course, half the time people look "Middle Eastern" their either East Indian or Pakistani; neither country is in the Middle East.

[Dirk McQuickly]

He has. He's met with Bush 41 on more than one occasion since George W. took office, and he's met with George W., himself, twice.

Note how the Vatican did not offer a statement. The only thing of "value" was that Aziz told the same lie to the Pope (about cooperating) that he did to the rest of the world. The Pope told Aziz to start cooperating.

[Aquinasfan]

And the Deja Vu is the Holocaust.

You won't find this information in the NY Times today, even though most of it comes from the NY Times during WWII:

"Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...

Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Albert Einstein
Time Magazine, 12/23/40

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The charity and work of Pope Pius XII during World War II so impressed the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli, that in 1944 he was open to the grace of God which led him into the Catholic faith. As his baptismal name, he took the same one Pius had, Eugenio, as his own. Later Israel Eugenio Zolli wrote a book entitled, Why I Became a Catholic.

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"The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas... he is about the only ruler left on the Continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all... the Pope put himself squarely against Hitlerism... he left no doubt that the Nazi aims are also irreconcilable with his own conception of a Christian peace."

The New York Times editorial
12/25/41 (Late Day edition, p. 24)

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"This Christmas more than ever he is a lonely voice crying out of the silence of a continent... Pope Pius expresses as passionately as any leader on our side the war aims of the struggle for freedom when he says that those who aim at building a new world must fight for free choice of government and religious order. They must refuse that the state should make of individuals a herd of whom the state disposes as if they were lifeless things."

The New York Times editorial
12/25/42 (Late Day edition, p. 16)

[VaBthang4]

Fox cut away from the press conference....immediately. They rewound the tape and played it again while their hosts commented on what he said [I dont doubt for a second that Shep and Brit will bring it up when they are on].

MSNBC went on as if nothing had happened [probably because they didnt think anything had]. I dont know what CNN did because I dont even know [intentionally] where they are on my channel guide but I would'nt doubt that they sponsored the whole friggin event and then through an afterpress conference party with their Euro-confreres.

For their part, Foxnews went on to a reporter outside the Vatican and he repeated what Azziz did.

It may be that none of the other spinzones talked about it....but Foxnews did...after they pulled the plug.

Foxnews wins another round.

[Catspaw]

I saw Aziz. He refused to answer the Israeli reporter's question. He was asked the same question a bit later. He didn't answer the question as to whether Iraq would attack Israel when the war broke out. All Aziz said was that their missles wouldn't reach Israel (which is a non-answer).

[The Great Satan]

Time for the pope to STFU. Does he want to go down in history as another Pius XII?