Chileno,
Frankly, I only concentrated on one aspect of your post, as it was the only one worth concentrating on.
It seems that we agree on nuking Tehran and other centers that would be the command and control for a nuclear Iran, mostly for the same reasons. I wrote an article on ths topic also at Blogcritics Magazine.
The actions of the Bishop of Rome will be swept into irrelevance by other events here. But since you insist on duking it out on this topic, let’s look at the evidence. Before we do, let me note that it is not my business to tell you how your religion should or should not work, or what your beliefs should or should not be.
In March 2000, then Bishop of Rome, Karol Wojtyla, visited this country. His flunkies at the Vatican, of whom Joseph Ratzinger was one, insisted on a number of things, things which the Israeli leaders were stupid enough to agree to.
All of them were to one end – a denial of Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel. Let’s look at the main one. Signs of Israeli sovereignty were to be absent or downplayed wherever the Bishop of Rome traveled. So much so that even the Magen David Adom ambulances following the old man to make sure he did not fall sick had to have the Shield of Solomon painted over, so as not to offend the flunkies in the Vatican (I don’t think Wojtyla could have cared less – he was a giant of a man, unlike the pygmy who has followed him).
Now, Chileno, if I hankered to visit your home but refused to do so unless you took your name off the door, what would be your impression? Would I be there for a sociable visit, or would I be there to lay claim your property?
Why has the Vatican always pushed a “solution” to “peace” that specified that Jews not run Jerusalem? Go ahead, look it up. The main point in all of the Vatican’s alleged “solutions for peace” here all include depriving us Jews of control of the City of David – the city OUR KING conquered.
Finally, the reason for the Vatican’s behavior is to be found here, at Joel Bainerman’s article “The Vatican Agenda”. I’d believe Bainerman more than any article at Wikipedia. I know him, and I know his scholarship.
What business does the Vatican have controlling ANYTHING on OUR land? This is a Jewish country, and Christians and all other foreigners are here on our sufferance. If we allow you to own or control anything, it is an act of generosity, not an act of obeisance to you. Catholic prelates – the same kind of people who told Jews in Europe seeking to save innocent children from the claws of the Nazis – “there is no innocent Jewish blood” (look up the quote in the book, “Cracking the Bible Code”, by Satinover) deserve NO say in the way this land functions; they are lucky that we do not confiscate all that is theirs as a a small down payment for their vicious treatment of us over 17 centuries.
Catholics and Jews have never been so close in their relations as they are now. John Paul II went so far as to call Jews “our elder brothers.”
What you describe is the pandering of mendacious rabbis and Israeli pliticians (like Shim’on Peres) for “favor” at the court of the “Big Gentile”. It’s all a lot of hot air, barely fit to fly a balloon.
An “I’m sorry”, no matter how eloquent, just does not cut it. Liquidating 15% of the Vatican’s assets and turning the funds over to us might begin to. Eliminating prayers for the conversion of the Jews could be an added sweetener – in addition to the money – not in place of it. Acknowledging publicly and permanently that we are the sole and rightful owners of all of Jerusalem would really help. But “ecumenical dialogue” with the “universal church” is a waste of time.
The Vatican will do none of these things. Their arrogance will prevent them from doing so. But, if you really expect Jews to forgive the barbaric and murderous behavior of the Catholic Church for 17 centuries towards us, it’s things like this you need to tell the Vatican they need to do.
