The Cathlic Church has had a dark past in its dealings with Jews, persecuting them throughout earlier years as 'Christ killers', and especially during WWII when it was perceived to have collaborated with Nazis in various dealings. The last Pope, John Paul II made a formal apology for those past mistakes in a genuine reconciliatory effort with the Jews-Israelis. The aim has been to heal the wounds of history. The Church was not alone in ignoring the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust – some European countries, principally Germany suffered from the same guilt.
The Israelis have always capitalised on those European-Christian feelings of guilt to enhance its interests. Chief among these interests has been its deliberate efforts to politically and socially marginalise the Palestinians, many of whom are actually Christians themselves.
But this time, the Israelis has overplayed its game. The last couple of decades of Israeli aggression and brutalities, particularly under the Ariel Sharon's Likud government, have so revolted many people around the world that they no longer consider the Israelis-Jews to be the underdog. The con game cannot be further perpetuated.
Israel's greatest hero is King David; Israel has adopted his symbol, the Star of David as its national symbol.
But Israel is no longer David, the innocent shepherd boy admired as the brave heroic underdog who enjoyed God’s blessings; Israel has grown up to be the lecherous and murderous King David who coveted the wife (property) of his good neighbour - his brave and loyal soldier Uriah - and used his royal powers to command Uriah's wife Bathsheba to his presence, committed adultery with her in her husband’s absence (Uriah was away fighting David’s war while the King f***ed his wife Bathsheba), and then arranged for her husband to be deliberately killed in a setup.
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. (2 Samuel 11:14-17)
How more evil could a man be? David, like Israel, broke so many of God’s Commandments, that surely he deserved severe punishment.
When Pope Benedict XVI condemned the terrorist attacks in London and Sharm el-Sheikh last Sunday, Israel thought it could play the usual guilt game with the Catholic Church, especially with a Pope who is a German.
Israel demanded to know why the Pope did not refer to a Palestinian suicide bombing in his condemnation of terrorist attacks. The Pope showed that he was taking no sh*t from the Israelis, and issued an unusually blunt statement criticising Israel for its own aggressive response to Palestinian attacks.
The Vatican statement said:
"It has not always been possible to follow every attack against Israel with a public declaration of condemnation. [One reason for this was] … the attacks on Israel were sometimes followed by immediate Israeli reactions not always compatible with the norms of international law … It would thus be impossible to condemn the (terrorist operations) and pass over the (Israeli retaliation) in silence".
The Vatican said it was not prepared to "take lessons or instructions from any other authority on the content and direction of its own statements".
The problem with Israel is that, as mentioned above, it had always exploited European-Christian guilt by demanding (note, never inquiring or requesting but 'demanding') western governments condemn Palestinian insurgent activities as part of the international Islamist terrorism against Western nations. Further, Israel claimed its own oppressive actions in the occupied territories, which it stole from the Palestinians, couldn't be compared to the Palestinian insurgent activities. Of course Israel has refused to allow others to recognize that the Palestinian fightback is a legitimate resistance; it wants them to label Palestinian insurgency as terrorism, and in that process, like the evil King David, hope to hide the illegality of its own rape of someone's property.
But the reality is that everyone, well, virtually everyone except those fanatically pro-Israel disciples, know that the Palestinians have limited their insurgency mainly to against Israel.
But as an example of how Israelis want to confuse the Palestinian legitimate struggle to re-secure their stolen homeland (stolen by the Israelis) with the al Qaeda brand of Islamist terrorism, taste this sour Israeli cake - the wife of Israel's foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, Judy, said on a television chat show, "… I can say it's not all bad for the English to find out what it's like," meaning the London bombings.
What an unpleasant woman.
Let us not forget the prophet Nathan’s words to the evil King David:
… Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thine neighbbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. (2 Samuel 12:7-12)
It is a warning that applies equally to David's Israel. Amen.
Happy 2006!
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