The ‘abusing priests’ campaign is a clear sign of
forthcoming war. If the Church pays for ‘abusing priests’,
maybe Jewry should pay for ‘cheating Jews’?
Darkness from the West
By Israel Shamir
The Catholic Church, the biggest apostolic church in the US,
is under heavy attack. The plotters had united media effort
and legal machinery, utilized American obsession with money,
and given the Church the treatment they gave tobacco
industry, that is, suing it to oblivion. For their chance to
get thirty pieces of silver (over a million dollars, in
present prices), hundreds of American Catholics denounced
their church.
This attack, followed by the ill-considered
surrender of Los Angeles Catholic bishops in the
‘abusing priests’ campaign, is a clear sign of forthcoming
war. This soap opera had a good run in the US media before
the Iraq invasion. It actually started while Sharon was
besieging Bethlehem and destroying Palestine in 2002. Then,
all of a sudden, hundreds of men and women in their forties
had remembered that they were abused some twenty years ago.
It rose to a hysterical shriek in advance of the Iraq
invasion in 2003, and now it is playing again as a harbinger
of new hostilities. Whenever the forces of darkness prepare
a new attack on mankind, they use their considerable
artillery to shut up the potential resistance forces,
starting with their avowed enemy, the Church. This was the
practice of the Third Reich as well: before starting the
war, they began
their campaign of ‘priests as sex fiends’, to force the
church’s silence. Now this is the turn of the Fourth Reich:
the Church was against the war in Iraq; the Church was
steadfast in her defence of Palestine; the Church is
certainly against the impending attack on Iran; so she has
to be put on defence. The same people who control the US
media call for war with Iran, and they are behind this
campaign against the Church.
Our enemies and the enemies of the Church concocted, through
their control of the media, a phantom of “abusive priests”
and succeeded in convincing the LA Bishops to take the bait
of “final settlement”. Very soon the bishops will discover
that nothing is final when you submit to their wishes.
Surrender gets you nowhere. They could learn from the
Germans, who agreed to settle all Jewish claims for $1
billion (as described by the chief Jewish negotiator Nahum
Goldmann in his book The Jewish Paradox, New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), eventually paid $60 billion to find
out that they still own $180 billion, and now there is
a new suit to provide the children of the wartime
sufferers with full coverage of their shrink sessions. If
there is a sucker who agrees to pay, he won’t get a break
from these fellows.
The very construction of the claim is faulty, to say the
least. If a man abused a boy, while being a priest, this is
still his crime, and he should bear responsibility – if and
when the crime is proven by criminal court beyond any
reasonable doubt. Likewise, if a man abused a boy while
serving in the army, or working in the fire brigade, the
responsibility is his, not of the army, nor of the fire
prevention services. The bishops had no right to agree to
such a suit; if an anti-Christian judge accepted such a
suit, the church should rather disband than agree. The
bishops are not the church, nor are the clergy: the Church
is the mystic body of all worshippers, the Bride of Christ,
and she is not a subject to any suit for misdeeds of
individual believers. The Church is always right, though her
bishops, priests or laymen may be wrong individually.
On the second thought, this model can be useful. If one can
sue the Catholic Church, certainly one should be able to sue
her traditional competitor, the Jews. If the Church pays for
“abusing priests”, maybe Jewry should pay for “cheating
Jews”? A full list of claims by people cheated by Jewish
financiers, real estate developers, bankers, insurance
agents would run to trillions. One Enron case (a clear-cut
case of Jewish cheating) would be enough to offset the
“abusive priests” bounty. Let them sue Jewry in the same
court where the Church is sued; there are enough assets to
seize from the Jewish organizations. Maybe that will leave
them with less money to pour into bribing politicians and
killing Palestinians.
A little bird told me that the Jews would never agree to
accept collective responsibility. They are ready to act as a
collective in order to collect, but not to pay. And until
they agree to accept collective responsibility, the Church
should not either. If the Pope in Rome still holds some sway
over his LA bishops, he should retire them, void the
settlement, proclaim that the church will never agree to be
hold responsible for any individual’s misdeed and
excommunicate and anathemise everyone who participated in
this circus. Greed should not be encouraged: however right
or wrong originally, by trying to destroy the church for
their pecuniary gain, the claimants are totally in the
wrong.
The odd custom of the late Pope John Paul II - asking
forgiveness for historical sins - was liable to cause this
sort of event: he was not entitled to ask such forgiveness
for this would imply that every Catholic, even a five year
old Brazilian girl, was guilty of mistreating the church’s
enemies of some 500 years ago. The church should be mightily
happy if she is not sued for the damages incurred in all the
cases where her titular head has asked for forgiveness,
including the Crusades, the Sack of Constantinople and the
blood libel cases.
New claims will surely pour in. This is human nature: show
one man of a way to get a million by saying he was fondled
by a priest, and hordes will queue up with their claims.
Some will be outright liars and cheats. The name of
Lori Haigh comes to mind. This lady collected a $1.2
million abuse payment from the Los Angeles and Orange County
Catholic archdioceses in 2002, alleging that she was abused
by a clergyman while being driven to and from music
practices more than 20 years earlier. Afterwards, she tried
to play an abuse victim on several other occasions, until
she was stopped by police as a liar and impostor.
Others will use their false memory to make it up. False
memory is a very real thing: I have noticed that I
‘remember’ events I never witnessed because I was told of
them so many times. It calls for quite an effort to regain
one’s true memory and to dismiss the false one. Every
Jerusalemite will tell you of horrors of 1948 siege of the
city, but the newspapers of the time witness that there was
no siege at all, as an Israeli historian Dr Uri Milstein
recently proved.
Sex cases generate a lot of claimants. A few years ago, a
Sephardic Jew, General Itzik Mordechai got close to
receiving the crown of Israel’s Prime Ministership. The
ruling Ashkenazi elite did not cherish the idea. They found
a girl who claimed that she was raped by the lusty General.
After the claim was publicized, dozens of women came up with
similar claims. The claims came to naught, but there was
enough dirt to bury Mordechai’s chances to govern. The trick
was repeated against the Sephardi President Moshe Katzav and
worked: the first claimant failed, but the police could find
some positive evidence out of the dozens who came to claim.
In the US, the waves of would-be claimants rise to tsunami
heights, with hundreds and thousands coming to claim they
were abused – in average, 20 years ago, in some cases 40
years ago.
I do not feel sorry for these late claimants. Why did they
wait for 20 years? If a boy or a girl is being attacked, he
or she may scream and run to parents or to police. If they
did not do it, just forget it. Consider it a clumsy pass, an
unpleasant experience, a result of misunderstanding. Blame
yourself for indecisiveness. Proceed with your life. Join
mankind: every one of us, even your mommy and daddy,
suffered an unwanted kiss or an undesired embrace. The laws
should be reasonable, - allowing 20-year old claims for such
events is not reasonable. Only an immediate complaint should
be considered valid, and 24 hours is as long as should be
allowed, in some extreme cases.
If a crime occurred, the criminal should
be punished, but the denouncer may not profit by his report
of the crime. This is the necessary rule of justice.
Otherwise we are back at the time when a denouncer could
claim a third of denounced man’s property. An honest abuse
victim should kick the temptation offered by the US
legal system which encourages suing for huge sums of money,
and return his winnings to the church. Anyway only the
lawyers, the Dershowitzes, win. Out of billions collected by
the Jewish lawyers on behalf of the holocaust survivors,
hardly a drop reached actual ex-prisoners, while the rest
remained in the lawyers’ coffers.
Expensive damage suits are immoral and counterproductive. A
woman collecting a million for being burned by hot coffee in
McDonalds, a man collecting a million for smoking too much,
- this is just an incitement to litigate. Lawyers’ fees
should be capped to the extent of a working man’s salary, so
they could not turn justice into roulette. The Americans may
consider revamping their legal system for it is a travesty
of justice: the US judges have refused every claim by
tortured Palestinians, but have awarded Israel and American
Jews with billions of Palestinian or Iranian moneys.
The rest of the world lives well without these enormous
damage suits. Money is only money, and this pursuit of
dollars is extremely unattractive. Freud considered money to
be the psychological equivalent of shit. Babies do show
their feces with the same pride grown-ups flash their gold
ringlets. An Arab book of seventh century tells of shit
competition between two tribes, where the winner is one who
produces the biggest pile. This is probably a better and a
saner way of competing than the one offered by the Forbes.
II
The Americans over-simplify the question of sex with minors,
when they present it as something monstrous. This is not so.
Are you revolted by Romeo and Juliet? As
a good American citizen, you should be; Juliet was 14, and
thus Romeo today would be tried and locked up as a
“paedophile”, together with his accomplice the good Friar
Laurence, in the United States. Friar Laurence would surely
be considered as an “abusing priest”, and a Dershowitz would
collect a million from the Verona diocese for his sin of
arranging the lovers’ tryst. Not only the lovers from
Verona: Edgar Allan Poe married a 14-year old; and if the
present laws were in force, the American poet would hearken
to his Raven’s “nevermore” in jail. Prophet Muhammad married
a nine year old Aisha, but Jacob, a Biblical patriarch,
bettered him and married Rachel who was 7. In modern world,
Jacob and Muhammad would be hunted down, extradited and
jailed. It is possible that even better placed persons would
not fare well facing our most enlightened justice: the
Mother of our Saviour was just 14 at Annunciation…
Mature women ready to share their
experience with young boys were always approved. In the
Greek classic book
Daphnis and Chloe, two young shepherds find love (they
would be imprisoned in the US), but before that, an
experienced and mature lady Lycaenion taught young Daphnis
how to attend to his girlfriend – to their mutual
satisfaction. Nowadays, in England, a 26-year old woman
teacher was
persecuted for having sex with her 15-year old pupil.
Even the prosecutor admitted that it’s “every schoolboy’s
fantasy to have that kind of attention from a young,
attractive member of staff”, but pushed for conviction all
the same. In the US,
Pamela Rogers was sentenced to many years of jail for
having sex with a young boy as tall as you and me, who was
full 13 at the act – the age my great-grandfather was
successfully married. If Mrs Rogers would rather abuse and
humiliate the boy, she could have a successful career in the
school. Who knows, she could become even a State Secretary…
A man who maims or kills a child will go
to jail, serve his time and go out a free man. A man who had
sex with a 14-year-old girl will serve his time and will be
placed on a roll of sex offenders; his name and address are
made available to every Internet user. In the UK and the US,
these neo-liberal transatlantic twins, a special service
allows you to locate every sex offender in your vicinity.
The state in these super-liberal countries is a Peeping Tom
who allows the pursuit of happiness in the stock market
only.
The Americans and the Brits invented a
silly concept of “statutory rape” as if a state prosecutor
knows better than boys and girls what they want. The great
French thinkers Sartre and Derrida, Foucault and de
Beauvoir, called in 1977 for
skipping this legal invention altogether. Wise Spaniards
established the age of consent at 13, while the even wiser
Muslims have no such age limit for marriage at all, while
disapproving of extramarital relations. Equally wise Jews
were guided by the Talmud which stipulates the permitted age
of marriage for girls at ‘three years and one day’ (though
the safer age of nine was preferred), while strictly
forbidding sodomy.
Indeed, almost all cases of alleged abuse are homosexual;
the alleged victims should sue the gay rights organizations
rather than the Church. But the Church is not allowed even
to utter these words. They can’t say “pederasty”, they
should pretend this is “paedophilia”. They may not defrock a
homosexual priest, for they would be attacked for their
“homophobia”. In the US, the strong
defence of homosexuality is inbuilt into their official
dogma. The taboo on “being less than fond of homosexuals”
(homophobia) may stand next to the taboo on “being less than
fond of Jews” (antisemitism). These two taboos are so well
entrenched in the US, that even mentioning them became a
taboo, and two secondary offences have been created,
“racism”, an antisemitism spill-off, and “paedophilia”, a
homophobia spill-off.
In Israel we feel there is no better way
to show allegiance to American democracy and liberalism than
to emasculate the man and de-womanise the woman. In our
smaller Jewish state, in Israel, things have changed since
the macho days of Six Day War, when homosexuality was
banned, the one-eyed Defence Minister Dayan screwed every
female conscript and the Israeli army kicked three Arab
armies in a week. Now the gay tendency is no snag, ministers
are sued for kissing a girl, and the army is beaten up by a
few bearded Lebanese. Once Israeli girls served in the army
as non-combatants. Their main job was to look smart and
cheerful, and thus encourage the boys to fight well. Now
they follow the example of Judith and Jael, don helmets, do
combat duty and look like East German swimmers on anabolic
steroids.
After ending her tour of duty, with
scalps of Palestinians at her belt (instead of their
foreskins, as was Samson’s wont) this new breed of a female
sabra is unsuitable for normal mating; and she ends
up in the growing lesbian colony of Tel Aviv. While male
homosexuals are often meek, the females have a drive for
leadership and they lead the majority of gay organisations.
Tsippi Livni, the Foreign Minister and an ex-Secret Service
agent, allegedly has some lesbian background, and thus
she passed millions of dollars to gay organisation led
by her patriotic sisters. Traditionally over-independent,
Jewish women became even more so as they now serve in the
combat units, earn as much as men do, are protected from a
flirtatious look by ever-alert police. They grew balls and
became like men but even more so, encouraged by the movies
showing decisive executive women and wimpy, obedient,
good-for-nothing and admiring men.
The men got the message. If the girls are
as hard as boys, but more demanding and more likely to sue –
who needs them? Some statistics claim 20% of Tel Aviv is
homosexual, others quote even higher numbers. Gays and
lesbians have full rights: they adopt children, their
“marriage” is recognised if performed abroad, they inherit,
they are positively discriminated in favour of as employees
and tenants, for they have more disposable income and do not
become pregnant. They are quite patriotic: a leading gay
poet of Tel Aviv called on Israel to erase Gaza and Beirut,
and break Arab skulls. They insist on their right to serve
in the occupation army. They derive an extra benefit from
the occupation: cheap young Arab bodies. Well-to-do gays
shack up with a boy who escapes the blockade and deprivation
of refugee camp, and the authorities do tolerate this breach
of apartheid, though an across-the-barriers union of man and
woman is not tolerated.
A similar process takes place in the
larger Jewish state, the US. Girls are being pushed into
military service, they become hard as nails; and as a
result, more and more men turn to other men, and naturally
to younger men, or boys. Priests are probably no exception.
The ultimate guilt is not that of the church, but of the
feminist and lesbian movement which supports women’s
military service; and of the media that promotes this
attitude.
Now, sexual violence towards a small boy
or girl by an adult man is a repulsive and criminal act, but
this is extremely infrequent. One can stretch it a bit and
agree that this is quite a repulsive act even if no violence
is used, though one should be aware that this is a question
of culture rather than an invariably correct judgement.
III
We can’t remain indifferent to the
travail of the Church for she has a potential to change the
US from the predatory neo-Judaic state it is today into a
peace-loving Christian one. Her bishops went too far trying
to accommodate their enemy, but they have discovered now
that this way leads to perdition. Next time they may be
braver, if there ever is a next time. We should defend her
against these attacks whether in the “abusive priests”
cases, or in the insinuations regarding the late pope
Pius and the German Reich. Only the innocent and gullible
will try to ponder the hard facts behind the setup, for
there are none relevant. This is all hype, as
Philip Jenkins, an Episcopalian Professor
of History and Religious Studies at Penn State University,
proved in his book Pedophiles and Priests, while the
name of Pope Pius was exonerated many times over.
The latter accusation is a mirror image, or a parody of the
accusation of Caiaphas just as the Holocaust religion is a
parody of the Christian faith. In the Christian dogma,
Caiaphas gave Christ into the hands of the Romans to be
crucified, and this implied the inherent hostility of the
Judaic leadership and priesthood to the Christ. In the
Holocaust dogma, Pope Pius surrendered the Jews to the
Germans, affirming the eternal enmity of the Holocaustians
to the Church. It does not matter that on a factual level,
the accusations have been refuted many times over. Our
tenacious enemy never gives up, never acknowledges his
defeat, never accepts the facts unless they suit him.
Who is the enemy? Some people refer to the Israel Lobby with
their great control over media. In the famed tract, they
were called the Elders of Zion. Others call them Illuminati.
I called them the Masters of Discourse, the operators of the
integrated machine of public disinformation and
indoctrination, from the Wall Street Journal to the
Wikipedia. Thousands of networks, newspapers, journals,
books, films and ideas are being united and guided by their
invisible hand, while free thought still survives in the far
reaches of the web. The fearsome AIPAC is
just the visible tip of the iceberg, below which are miles
and miles of solid ice: media lords, chief editors, their
pundits – in short, the Masters of Discourse. Their
power base is in the media, in their ability to create a
false presentation of reality and mislead people. Recently
John Pilger described it as
The Invisible Government.
When the Masters of Discourse fought against Communism, they
had a few faked ‘facts’ they were never tired of brushing
up. They played with stupefying numbers: Communists killed
thirty, no, fifty, no, sixty million, though the freely
available demographic figures of the Soviet Union made it as
miraculous as feeding of the multitudes by five loaves. They
invented Soviet anti-Semitism, though Soviet government and
security always had a lot of Jews in high places. They
invented Soviet totalitarianism, though the Soviet people
freely supported their government. Instead of the Holy
Grail, they had Raul Wallenberg, who was supposed to have
survived miraculously and to have been kept in some far-away
jail. No research would ever move them to recognize their
inventions for being what they were, namely, lies.
Now they want to destroy Iran and cripple Russia, for these
lands did not forget God. They do fight against the Church,
against every church, be it Communism or Islam or Orthodox
Judaism, or their traditional enemy, the Apostolic Church,
for every church defends its flock against their robbery and
resists their dark drive for domination. The church affirms
the primacy of spirit, and of the godlike nature of man;
this is anathema to the Masters. On a deeper level, the
Church is their main adversary, for they are a competing
church of sorts, the church of darkness, and they will not
suffer a competitor.
Dominant as they are, they are not omnipotent. We should not
be afraid of them. There is no magic in their incantations.
They have no divine powers behind them. They are impostors.
They exploit the old myths of mankind, forgetting that
nothing works without God. The Masters are twins to
Zionists; the Zionists decided to arrange for Israel’s
return to the Promised Land as it was promised to their
fathers. However, that return was to be done by God; while
humans trying to do God’s work are necessarily rebels.
Wannabe demiurges, they created their hellish regime ruled
by their security forces, and destroyed the lovely land of
Palestine. The result was so miserable, that Zionist prince
Avrum Burg recently advised his countrymen to obtain a
foreign passport and emigrate.
The Masters of Discourse are trying to create a
pseudo-Judaic universe on a planetary scale. Their vision
was grotesquely presented by the authors of the Protocols,
but the reality they brought in is as unsuccessful as the
one their brethren established in Palestine. The same rule
of security forces, the same fear-mongering, the same
ideological vise, the same destruction of nature, the same
impoverishment of spirit, the same uprooting, the same
discrimination, the same endless wars, - all quite removed
from the Prophetic promises they tried to emulate.
As rebels against God, they will be defeated. As charlatans
they will be dismantled. Their fall is imminent. But it
won’t happen without our hard work, without our
understanding being widely spread and generally understood.
We should reject them completely, as completely as we are
called to in our confession of faith.
IV
The Church is the mightiest tool for peace. The Church
may yet lead us to peace – if we would vocally support her.
With massive support of people united around the Church, the
Middle East wars would become history. The Americans may
look eastward for an example. While the
biggest apostolic church of America is being bled for money,
in the East there is a great upheaval of spirit. In Turkey,
after 80 years of materialist dictatorship, people turned to
God and voted for a party of faith. The same thing happened
in Palestine, in the Lord’s Land, where Hamas won the
elections. Everywhere in the East, from Cairo to Moscow, the
East sheds the pragmatic cold shackles of godless regimes
and turns to God.
The Americans may emulate this current.
The Church – the Catholic one and her Orthodox sister – is
the Islam of the West, and it is meant to be a compliment.
There is positively a place for a Catholic Hamas rising in
the US and changing the rules of the game, taking away the
rule from the laic twins of Republicans and Democrats. If
Islam succeeded in regaining its place of respect and glory
in the recently and violently anti-religious society of
Ataturk, if the Orthodoxy made it in Lenin’s land, the
Christian Church may achieve the same in the US, by siding
with people, and the people can defeat their enemy, by
siding with the church.
The abusing priests’ case may eliminate
the Catholic Church in the US altogether as an independent
force: already five dioceses have declared bankruptcy. But
the Church still may overcome: she can divest of all its
property and transfer it to the local parishes, remove the
collaborationists and survive -- poor, lean and fighting, as
she did in the days of the Apostles. She should not
surrender but meet the challenge. She can lead America to
peace and prosperity as the great positive moral force, she
can demand from the Bush administration that America get out
of Iraq now. If the church will become more active in the
struggle for peace, she would attract more people. Yet, a
new independent and autocephalous Church of America could
spring forth from the American Apostolic Churches, the
Orthodox and the Catholic, and her light would defeat the
darkness of apostasy.
Alas, some of our friends fail to understand it and join
in the attack on the Church. It is as if an infantry soldier
were to join in the enemy attack on his tanks, just because
he hates tankers.
The flagship of pro-Palestinian media is
Counterpunch. This is one of the biggest friendly
sites, and they do publish many articles produced by our
friends. But in Counterpunch, one can’t say a good
word about the Church, and for sure one can’t mention
Christ. A Google search for “church” on their site shows
that they are as harsh to the Church as the Jerusalem
Post. (See for instance www.counterpunch.org/sexabuse.html
,
www.counterpunch.org/jensen09282006.html ,
www.counterpunch.org/smith03092004.html etc)
Recently they published
a piece by a Badruddin Khan who did not stop at
repeating brazen lies: “These hoary tactics were applied by
Christians against Jews barely a century ago. The Catholic
Church issues circulars that condemned Jews for using the
blood of Christian children for Passover rites. All Jews
(whether secular, converts, or intermarried) were marked and
identified as sinister and worthy of apartheid. This state
of apartheid allowed the organized evil of the Holocaust to
be implemented.”
This is a lie and calumny one finds only
in the cheapest Zionist textbooks. As a matter of fact, the
Jewish converts were invariably well received by the church,
and some of them rose within its ranks. The list would be
too long, from St Paul and St Peter to St John of Cross and
St Teresa of Avila to the leading bishops in the French
church and elsewhere. The church indeed condemned those Jews
who used the blood of Christian children for Passover rites
or for any other purpose; would Badruddin Khan prefer her to
approve of this unorthodox practice? And finally, the
reference to the holocaust is absurd. Hitler’s regime was as
violently anti-Catholic as any. They actually pioneered the
“abusive priests” line copycatted by today’s American media.
I have no doubt that Counterpunch would never dare to
publish similar offensive lies about the Jews, but the
Church may be attacked freely.
Our good combatants Bill and Kathy Christison went to
demonstrate in front of a Catholic cathedral because of Prof
Finkelstein’s refused tenure, as they
wrote in the Counterpunch. I asked them, why they didn’t
go to demonstrate in front of a Jewish institution, be it a
synagogue or a Bnai Brith lodge or the ADL. They replied
that “You are quite correct when you say
that in the US it’s possible to be anti-anything except
anti-Jewish or anti-Israel. The Israel lobby is so very
strong and wields so very much political power that no
politician, no commentator dares criticize Israel without
fear of being labeled anti-Semitic and excluded from
mainstream discourse. In the wake of the Holocaust (about
which the lobby constantly reminds us), few people want to
risk being thought anti-Jewish, so this is a powerful
weapon, and becomes more and more powerful as time goes on.”
Demonstrating in front of a Catholic
church is like looking under the lamp post for lost coin,
which you have actually lost in the dark. It’s dark in front
of the Jewish establishments, but we should venture into
darkness to bring light. This is the way of our
organisation, Deir Yassin Remembered who regularly
demonstrate in front of synagogues. And in front of the
cathedrals, we should demonstrate in support of the Church,
not against her.
The Catholic Church is one of the
greatest champions of Palestine. They have a Palestinian
Patriarch, they do defend Palestine. All established
churches support Palestine; with the apostolic churches
taking the leading role, and the Catholics often lead them
all. During the 2002 Bethlehem siege by the Jews, the
Catholic Church led the actions and I participated in them
(read
http://www.israelshamir.net/English/Convoy.htm ) I am
not a Catholic, actually I belong to the competing native
sister, the Orthodox Church of Holy Land, but in some ways,
the Catholic Church is even more supportive of Palestine
than our own.
Bill and Kathy disagreed: “The Catholic
Church has certainly done some good things for the
Palestinians, but not nearly enough. Where has the church
been while Israel oppresses Christians, including Catholics,
in Palestine? Have we heard any protests from this Pope
over the walling in and devastation of Bethlehem, or from
the last Pope when Israel besieged the Church of the
Nativity during the 2002 reinvasion of the West Bank? Where
was the Church when Israel ethnically cleansed numerous
Christian Palestinian villages in 1948? And indeed, where
has the Church been as Israel has oppressed members of
another faith, Muslims, for 60 years, desecrating Muslim
places of worship and killing and ethnically cleansing
Muslim people--for the sole reason that they are not Jews?”
I replied: The Catholic Church is doing
as much as she can, but she can’t do much, two hundred years
after Voltaire. You ask, “Where has the church been while
Israel oppresses Christians, including Catholics, in
Palestine?” Forgive me, but it reminds me the standard
Jewish line of “Where has the church been during the
holocaust?” Stalin was more realistic when he noticed that
the Pope has not too many divisions. Actually, the Church
protested every Israeli crime. The Church could do more if
she were not constantly attacked by the Jewish Lobby - and
by the well-meaning people who do not understand that they
undermine this defence of Palestine.
Once, the Church led the Crusade to
liberate the Holy Land. Now, she can lead the Crusade of
Peace for the same purpose.