Surprise, Surprise: Pope Denounces Attacks on Israeli Border Towns
YNet reports that Pope Benedict “denounced rocket attacks on Israeli border towns that provoked Israel’s armed retaliation, and appealed in God’s name for Jerusalem to use moderation and for Palestinian authorities to ‘neutralize’ violent forces.”
He said, literally: “The clashes among Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip and the rocket attacks against inhabitants of the nearby Israeli cities, which prompted armed intervention, are provoking a bloody deterioration of the situation. Yet again, in the name of God, I beg that an end be put to this tragic violence, while I desire to express my solid closeness to the hard-put Palestinian and Israeli populations and assure them that I remember them in prayer.”
More: “I appeal to the sense of responsibility of all the Palestinian authorities so that, in dialogue and with firmness, the difficult path toward understanding is undertaken again, neutralizing the violent ones. I invite the Israeli government to moderation and exhort the international community to multiply efforts to favor resumption of negotiations.”
Well: finally a world leader condemns Palestinian violence and speaks out in support of Israel.
UPDATE ON THE FRENCH ISRAELI IMMIGRANT MURDEROUS “NATIONALIST BASTARD” - HE’S INSANE!
RE: this article
mvdg.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/arab-in-ta-killed-by-two-french-immigrants/
As I suspected, he is a nutcase. This has nothing to do with “nationalism” but with a deranged individual doing something unrelated to any of the motives falsely attributed to him.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1178708610187&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
One needs to get the whole story. The Arabs theoretical have control of their actions, so they are responsible for them. But slandering “nationalistic” Jews because of the actions of a madman by attributing nationalist motives to his irrational behavior is a common Israeli Leftist deceit one must be careful not to fall for. I don’t expect mvdg to have know to look for that, but those of us familiar with the M.O. of the Israeli Left know to be cautious of such suspicious reports.
(I am posting this here in an article about Israel, because this is an important update to mvdg’s very passionate article on the murder, and people probably won’t see it if I post it there.)
Yonason: pulease, i was not blaming the nationalists for it, i was calling these particular two people, who happen to be nationalist, bastards.
mvdg
I know you weren’t blaming them, BUT the Leftist Israeli press WAS.
I’m sorry if it looks like I think you are complicit. I do not believe that you are. I was just saying that since you probably don’t know how they operate, someone has to tell you.
Sorry if my anger at them looks in any way directed at you. It is not.
Warmest regards
NOTHING NEW WITH POPE’S RHETORIC
“appealed in God’s name for Jerusalem to use moderation and for Palestinian authorities to ‘neutralize’ violent forces.”
Sorry, but calls for Israel to “use moderation” aren’t new.
When he says “I invite the Israeli government to moderation and exhort the international community to multiply efforts to favor resumption of negotiations.” the Pope is repeating the folly of the past 30 years.
When, 3/4 of the “Palestinians” support suicide bombings, moderation is madness, as are attempts to negotiate with psychotic killers.
gloria.idc.ac.il/columns/2006/rubin/01_24.html
Using moderation against savages is what breeds violence. I would have been better not giving them a foothold to begin with, but since, at the insistanc of the world we did, now the only way to peace is to eliminate them, not talk to them. Resumption of negotiations is insane because all 30 years of negotians have done is make the situation progressively worse for both Arabs and Jews.
If a simple cartoonist “gets it,”
http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/hamas.htm
…why can’t the Pope?
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue
AND . .
Calls “for Palestinian authorities to ‘neutralize’ violent forces” are worthless, because the “Palestinian authorities” ARE the “violent forces.”
The root of the problem:
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2624
Terrorists aren’t punished, they are rewarded:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2000/10/Terrorists%20Recently%20Released%20by%20the%20Palestinian%20Au
Fund terror with EU money in ‘broad daylight’:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200312100915.asp
Never mind the Pope, why is this overlooked by ALL the players?
“moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue” — mvdg
An excellent ‘last word’ on the subject.
The Pope is acting as a religious leader, not a political one- which is as it should be. He’s condemning aggression.
The reason I don’t always agree with the Church’s stance on matters of international politics and war is that the religiously informed viewpoint treats nations just as it treats individuals. It’s one thing to turn the other cheek if a person hits you but it’s another thing altogether for a nation to react that way. A nation or a political group does not have a soul and can’t be treated with that kind of charity and mercy if it’s being aggressive. To respond that way would endanger the innocent civilians, and that isn’t moral or just.
So I don’t agree with that part but I can’t fault the Pope for being the Pope. Especially since he takes the opportunity to criticize all aggression and he’s much more willing to point out the blame of the Palestinian terrorists than are many other world leaders.