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| Munich, 1972: A Palestinian nation builder |
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago (and for over a thousand years before that) the Catholic Church actually had a state. And it did more than just mint postage stamps. It had soldiers and courts and taxes and everything.
Now, that "state" is for most practical purposes non-existent. And it has been reduced to making treaties with other non-existent states.
Such as "Palestine".
The Vatican recently announced it would recognize and sign a treaty with the state of Palestine--a fictional entity that the terrorist Palestinian Liberation Organization would like to actualize.
How many Jews did you kill at the Munich Olympics, Johnny Palestine?
And I was worried about a kissing scandal.
Let's listen to Pamela Geller, one of the great heroines of our time:
This is a massive betrayal of Israel and all free people, and an endorsement of the genocidal “Palestinian” jihad against the Jews. A “State of Palestine” will no more bring peace than did the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza: just as with Gaza, a “State of Palestine” will just become another jihad base. The Vatican has every reason to know that. The “Palestinians” on their official media outlets make no secret of their goal of wiping out Israel and killing Jews wholesale.
Now the Vatican has signed on to that.
The current leftist Pope is supposedly utterly opposed to the very real anti-semitism of a small segment of rightest traditionalists. "Interfaith" dialogues and prayers are held with Rabbis (and Imams) on consecrated Catholic grounds--including inviting Jewish priests (and Imams) to preside at the very alters that contain the relics of the Christian martyrs.
But the Vatican has just endorsed the cause of those who wish to destroy the Jewish state.
But the Vatican has just endorsed the cause of those who wish to destroy the Jewish state.
One might be forgiven for thinking that in practice, liberal Catholicism and the most right-wing Jewish conspiracy-obsessed SSPX offshoots now agree on one thing. It's a recurrently popular philosophical claim with a venerable pedigree:
Stick it to the Jews.
At least the SSPX offshoots are more honest about it.
Every Sunday and (when I am not lazy) on other days, I attend a Traditional Latin Mass that begins with these words from Psalm 42:
Priest: Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the unholy nation, deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
Server: For Thou, O God, art my strength, why hast Thou cast me off? And why do I go about in sadness, while the enemy afflicts me?
Priest: Send forth Thy light and Thy truth: they have conducted me and brought me unto Thy holy mount, and into Thy tabernacles.
Server: And I will go unto the altar of God: to God, Who gives joy to my youth.
God chose to reveal Himself first to the Jews and the Jewish nation. How fitting that the current Church on Earth--which, while refusing to kneel to God, advocates kneeling to individual men--has chosen to betray His first chosen nation.
O God...distinguish my cause from the unholy nation, deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
He will, of course.
That should bring comfort to some. And (if they have eyes to see) trepidation to many more.
