Israel smacks Pope down on talk of Palestinian homeland

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Israel and promptly called for a Palestinian homeland. The AP:

''The hopes of countless men, women and children for a more secure and
stable future depend on the outcome of negotiations for peace,'' he
told a welcoming ceremony at Israel's international airport. ''In union
with people of goodwill everywhere, I plead with all those responsible
to explore every possible avenue in the search for a just resolution of
the outstanding difficulties, so that both peoples may live in peace in
a homeland of their own within secure and internationally recognized
borders.''

Quoth Israeli spokesman Yigal Palmor: "Discussing this is not the purpose of the visit.."'

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  1. Ed says:

    The pope has no moral authority to lecture Jews on anything because a lot of Nazis were raised as Catholics! But wait a minute…a lot of Bolsheviks and Communists were raised as Jews. And they've murdered tens of millions more than the Nazis ever did. Doesn't that mean organized Jewry and its "Nation of Priests" have no moral authority to lecture gentiles about anything? Did the Holocaust somehow negate the Nation of Priests' Communist crimes against humanity, or was the Holocaust a foreseeable consequence? If one wants to keep score by Jewry's rules, I would say that at absolute best, the Jews are about even (notwithstanding the crimes of Zionism, which thus far haven't reached the level of Nazism or Communism — a fact that Zionist Jews and their evil Left-Right statist Western partners apparently hope to change).

  2. John Smithson says:

    My advice: Don't mess with the Pope.

  3. jim byers says:

    The Catholic church has a hideous track record. Not only were Nazis raised as Catholics, the Church bankrolled Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. I lived in a village in Spain for 2 years during the Franco / fascist regime. I was in the Province of Valencia that was the last bastion of the Republic. The Church was thoroughly despised. In fact there was a common curse "leche" which means milk. What it meant is that they shit in the milk of the virgin.

  4. aristeides says:

    Who said, "How many divisions does the Pope have?"?

  5. dalybean says:

    The international consensus is finally reaching a tipping point, especially with the high-profile 57 country coalition to offer a comprehensive peace for a Palestinian state. Israel must be furious.

  6. Margaret599 says:

    It sounds like he didn't get the memo.

  7. littlehorn says:

    Funny. They didn't mention anything like this on the TV. Anyone talking about Israel should disown the Zionist ideology, and only accept any plan based on purely pragmatic grounds. So the Pope missed a chance there.

  8. Ed says:

    And Jewish bankers like the Schiffs, Warburgs and Rothschilds directly and indirectly financed the Bolshevik revolution. So if he Church did finance fascism, perhaps it was out of a survival imperative, given that Communists were murdering Christians by the millions in the Soviet Union. The main lesson to take from all of this is the imperative of maintaining religion/state separation and returning to the libertarianism of America's founders. And as Communism demonstrates, just because some Leftists profess to deny God doesn't mean they aren't equally threatening and messianic as those who conflate religion and state (which both Jewish Zionists and Muslim Islamists do as well). Only Christianity and Western civilization have a demonstrable track record of dedication to separation over the course of time, but a libertarian Jew or Muslim who has internalized the rationales under girding libertarianism could probably get it. This new breed of “Judeo-Christians” (nearly all Zionists to a man) are clearly as ignorant, authoritarian and prone to separation violations as Jewish Zionists, Muslim Islamists, and Messianic Leftists.

  9. Jacobwolfen says:

    Pragmatic grounds? That means no palestinians allowed in Israel, the Palestinian nation has its capital in ramallah. Gaza becomes Hamastan.

  10. Citizen says:

    True, so why are we supporting the theocratic state of Israel? I don't think there's any oil there. Sure, they make electronic and military stuff, and we get some of that data and product from Israel after it has proven it in use against arabs, but the Israelis get our stuff too, and have our congressional license to ignore US patents, reverse engineer stuff, and sell it to China & India, and even back to our big corporations–all subsidized by US taxpayers.

  11. camelssansarabs says:

    I agree with Jacobwolfen. When the ashkenazi jews stole the land, there were no arabs on it. Let's be fair here, the first step towards pragmatic progress.

  12. Saleema says:

    Did you guys miss the news story where the pope walked out on a speech by some shekh named Tamimi? Tamimi asked the pope to be on the right side of history and condemned the massacre of Gaza. The Pope walked out. The Catholic Church shall one day apologize, this time to the Muslims, for supporting and being silent supporters of the the massacre.

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