Vatican Compares Jews to Nazis
Typical anti-Jewish propaganda from the Vatican. But, what do you expect from a church that supported Hitler during World War Two?
Gaza Strip is a concentration camp, says Vatican
From correspondents in Rome | January 08, 2009
Article from: Agence France-Presse
Via The Australian
THE Gaza Strip has been turned into a “concentration camp” by two weeks of Israeli bombardments, said a senior Vatican official.
Cardinal Renato Martino, the Vatican’s justice and peace minister, was quoted by the online Italian daily Il Sussidiario.
“Let’s look at the conditions in Gaza: these increasingly resemble a big concentration camp,” said Cardinal Martino.
[Gee, I don't recall the Jews launching rockets and sending suicide bombers into the neighboring communities...]
Cardinal Martino said it was in neither parties interest to carry on fighting and urged both to show more willingness to hold peace talks.
“If they can’t come to an agreement, then someone else should do it (for them). The world cannot sit back and watch without doing anything.
“We Christians are not the only ones to call this land ‘holy’, Jews and Muslims do so too. The fact that this land is the scene of bloodshed seems a great tragedy,” he added.
Israel’s offensive on Gaza has killed almost 700 Palestinians, including 220 children, and injured 3000 since December 27, according to Gaza medics.
Aid agencies have declared a total humanitarian crisis in Gaza, owing to the ailing stocks of basic food, water and medical supplies.
In response Israel said the comments were “based on Hamas propaganda”.
“Making remarks that seem to be based on Hamas propaganda while ignoring its numerous crimes … does not bring the people closer to truth and peace,” foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP.
9 January, 2009 at 11:04 am
Hmmm the crusades happened because of islam invading europe not the other way around…
9 January, 2009 at 11:22 am
Arab,
What? By that logic, you have no choice but to claim Israel for the Jews. Why? Because Jews have been living there all this time…
True, 1948 did see an influx of Jews, but there has ALWAYS been a Jewish presence living in and around Israel after Rome began expelling them around 70 A.D.
Actually, it is not correct to say that the whole Jewish nation has been in exile. The long exile, known as Diaspora, is a documented fact that proves the legitimacy of the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel, and was the consequence of the Jewish Wars of independence from the Roman Empire.
If “Palestinians” allegedly are the historic inhabitants of the Holy Land, why did they not fight for independence from Roman occupation as Jews did? How is it possible that not a single Palestinian leader heading for a revolt against the Roman invaders is mentioned in any historic record?
Why is there not any Palestinian rebel group mentioned, as for example the Jewish Zealots? Why is it that every historic document mentions the Jews as the native inhabitants, and the Greeks, Romans and others as foreigners dwelling in Judea, but not any Palestinian people, neither as native nor as foreigner?
After the last Jewish War in the 2nd century c.e., the Roman emperor Hadrian sacked Jerusalem in 135 c.e. and changed her name into Ælia Capitolina, and the name of Judæa into Palæstina, in order to erase the Jewish identity from the face of the Earth.
Most of the Jews were expelled from their own land by the Romans, a fact that determined the beginning of the great Diaspora. Nevertheless, small groups of Jews remained in the province then renamed “Palestine”, and their descendants dwelled in their own country continuously throughout generations until the Zionist pioneers started on the mass return in the 19th century.
Therefore, the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel is justified not only by an old Biblical Promise, but also by a permanent presence of Jews as the only autochthonous ethnic community existing in the Holy Land.
Along the centuries and under different dominations, the “Palestinian” Jews never submitted to assimilation but conserved their spiritual and cultural identity, as well as their links with other Jewish communities in the Middle East. The continuous flow of Mizrachim (Oriental) and Sephardim (Mediterranean) Jews to the Holy Land contributed to support the existence of the Jewish population in the area.
This enduring Jewish presence in the so-called Palestine preceded many centuries the arrival of the first Arab conqueror.
Even though Jerusalem has been off-limits to Jews in different periods (since Romans banned all Jews to enter the City), many of them settled in the immediate proximities and in other towns and villages of the Holy Land. A Jewish community was established at Mount Zion.
The Roman and subsequent Byzantine rule were oppressive; Jews were prevented from praying at the Kotel, where the Holy Temple once existed.
The Sassanid Persians took control over Jerusalem in 614 c.e. allied with the local Jews, but five years later the City fell again under Byzantine control, although it was an ephemeral rule because in 638 c.e. Jerusalem was captured by the caliph Omar.
That was the first time that an Arab leader set foot in the Holy City, inhabited by non-Arab peoples (Jews, Assyrians, Armenians, Greeks and other Christian communities).
After centuries of Roman-Byzantine oppression, the Jews welcomed the Arab conquerors with the hope that their conditions would improve. The Arabs found a strong Jewish identity in Jerusalem and the surrounding land; Jews were living in every district of the country and on both sides of the Jordan. Indeed, the “Palestinians” that were historically dwelling in the Holy Land were no other than the Jews!
Towns like Ramallah, Yericho and Gaza were almost purely Jewish by that time. The Arabs, not having a name of their own for this region, adopted the Latin name “Palæstina”, that they translated into Arabic as “Falastin”.
The first Arab immigrants that settled in the so-called Palestine – or, according to the modern UN conception, the first “Palestinian refugees” – were actually Jewish Arabs, namely Nabateans that adopted Judaism.
Before the rise of Islam, flourishing centres like Khaybar and Yathrib (renamed Madinah) were mainly Jewish Nabatean cities. Whenever there was a famine in the land, people would go to Khaybar; the Jews always had fruit, and their springs yielded a plentiful supply of water.
Once the muslim hordes conquered the Arabian peninsula, all that richness was ruined; the muslims perpetrated massacres against the Jews and replaced them with masses of ignorant fellahin submitted to the new religion. The survivors had to escape and took refuge in the Holy Land, mainly in Yericho and Dera’a, on both shores of the Jordan.
The Arab caliphs (Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid) controlled the Holy Land until 1071 c.e., when Jerusalem was captured by the Seldjuq Turks, and after that time, it was never again under Arab rule.
During all that period, Arabs hardly established any permanent social structure of their own, but rather governed over the native non-Arab Christian and Jewish population.
Any honest observer would notice that the Arabs ruled over the Holy Land three centuries less than they did over Spain!
In 1099 c.e., the European Crusaders conquered the so-called Palestine and established a kingdom that was politically independent, but never developed a national identity; it was just a military outpost of Christian Europe. The Crusaders were ruthless and tried by all means to remove any expression of Jewish culture, but all their efforts ended without success.
In 1187 c.e., Jews actively participated with Salah-ud-Din Al’Ayyub (Saladin) against the Crusaders in the conquest of Jerusalem. Saladin, who was the greatest muslim conqueror, was not an Arab but a Kurd.
The Crusaders took Jerusalem back from 1229 to 1244 c.e., when the City was captured by the Khwarezmians. A period of chaos and Mongol invasions followed until 1291c.e., when the Mameluks completed the conquest of almost the whole Middle East and settled their capital in Cairo, Egypt.
The Mameluks were originally Central Asian and Caucasian mercenaries employed by the Arab caliphs; a medley of peoples whose main contingent was composed by Kumans, a Turkic tribe also known as Kipchak, related to the Seldjuqs, Kimaks and other groups.
They were characterized by their ambiguous behaviour, as Kuman mercenaries were often contemporarily serving two enemy armies. The Mameluk soldiers did not miss the right moment to seize power for themselves, and even after their rule was overthrown, they were still employed as warriors by the Ottoman sultans and at last by Napoleon Bonaparte.
In 1517 c.e., Jerusalem and the whole Holy Land were conquered by the Ottoman Turks and remained under their rule during four centuries, until 1917 c.e., when the British captured Jerusalem and established the “Mandate of Palestine”.
It was the end of the Ottoman Empire, that owned all the present-day Arab countries until then. Indeed, since the fall of the Abbasid caliphate in 945 c.e., no Arab political entity existed in the Middle East for almost a millennium!
Anyway, I’ve got to get back to work. I leave you with a couple of quotes:
“There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity… yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel”. – Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council
“You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people”. – Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat
“Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?”
“We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag”.
“When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out”. — Walid Shoebat
10 January, 2009 at 1:25 am
Getting back to the story.. It’s really just great, the Pope is a German and a Hilter Youth as a kid, to boot.. After what the German’s did to 6,000 Jews in the WW2, you would think they would all just shut-up.. Also the Catholic Church, has a rotten record, they started all this racism against Jews in the first century after Jesus’s death, (who by the way was also a Jew) because the Jews refused to turn christian..As a christain I am ashamed of the nonsense that is coming out of the Vatican..Enough, is enough!!!!
PS: like your write up Doctor Bulldog, you are 100% correct in what you have written..
11 January, 2009 at 12:27 am
Sorry I should state it was 6 million Jews in WW2..
11 January, 2009 at 1:21 am
annmarie
I don’t count ‘catholic’ as Christian because of thier catacism and various websites dead-icated to mary…
The crimes that catholic leadership have done in the past have caught up to them in the present…
19 January, 2009 at 5:58 am
The Jewish state is a Nazi state they do to palestinians what the Germans did to them, only for hitler the jews would not be back in the holy land the west that is USA and EUROPE turned a blind eye to the jews taken over the country of palestine just like the germans when they took poland and france etc……Hitler has been the jewish messiah there will never be peace in the world till the jews are expelled to the USA or south pole they have been a curse on the world
19 January, 2009 at 11:13 am
brazil
Can you prove your point with links?
20 January, 2009 at 3:57 am
what liks do you need the germans took poland the zionists took palestine the one and the same and the english tried to take the world but yhey were kicked out of americe,ireland india and aferica and the jews will also be kicked out by 2012