Vatican Slams Israel: Children are Dying in Gaza; Stop the Violence! (Called anti-Semitic)

[FrankRep]

The Vatican on Gaza: "Israel is a Baby-Killer"


Israel National News
Nov. 21, 2012


Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Vatican Council for Culture, commenting on the war between Israel and Hamas, delivered a severe attack on the Jewish people: “I think of the ‘massacre of the innocents’. Children are dying in Gaza, their mothers’ shouts is a perennial cry, a universal cry”.

The Catholic Church high official equated Israel’s operation in Gaza against terror groups with the New Testament story of Herod’s slaughter of Jewish babies in his effort to kill Jesus.

Ravasi, who is one of the most popular Catholic cardinals and the director of the Church’s policy on culture, called Israelis baby-killers in a shameless form of anti-Semitism which subtly accuses the Jewish State of trying to murder the new Jesus, symbolized by the Palestinian people.

The Vatican official’s modern blood libel against Israel was delivered during the presentation of Pope Benedict’s new book about the life of Jesus. However, Ravasi's theme – the Jews as Herod, who killed all the innocent babies because his heart was set on killing Jesus – was much beloved by Medieval organizers of pogroms.

The vicar-general of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, William Shomali, said on Vatican Radio that “what is happening in Gaza now is a vicious circle of violence”. The auxiliary bishop then declared that “it’s difficult to know who started it”. How difficult?

A few weeks ago, in an interview with the Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana, Shomali claimed that “hatred of Christians” is the Talmud itself. "The Talmud, the holy book studied by the ultra-orthodox, more highly venerated than the Bible itself, invites religious hatred, speaks badly of Jesus, and even worse of Mary and, in general, of Christians,” the bishop said, adding that “in Israeli schools, love for the other is not taught, but rather the destruction of the other”.
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[Petar]

Poor Vatican, less innocent kids for them to molest I guess...

[Petar]

In other news, NAMBLA accuses Israel of "vicious cock-block".

[RickyJ]

If you criticize Israel then you will be called an anti-Semite. I know, even people in my church who I thought were good Christians have called me an anti-Semite merely for criticizing Israel. The mass media has drilled it into people's heads that any criticisms of Israel or Judaism is anti-Semitic and should not be tolerated. Makes me sick and mad. People can and do criticize Christianity and Christians on a daily basis and no one in the mass media calls them anti-Christian, or suggests that it shouldn't be tolerated. Just read the Talmud and then tell me that the religion that goes by it is above criticism. I challenge any objective person to do that.

[RickyJ]

Poor Vatican, less innocent kids for them to molest I guess...

I won't call this anti-Catholic, but if everyone in the media did, and considered it hate speech that should not be tolerated, you would unfairly be branded as a hate monger.

[Petar]

I won't call this anti-Catholic, but if everyone in the media did, and considered it hate speech that should not be tolerated, you would unfairly be branded as a hate monger.

I see your point and of course it is true. I do believe that Israel's PR machine is starting to crumble though, along with the MSM in general. I thank the internet.

[Shane Harris]

any better story from a better site. I'd like to share with my catholics friends but I don't want the Pro-israel bias. More just what the vatican said and less commentary on it.

[Shane Harris]

Regardless of where you stand on the RCC, its nice to see the Vatican standing up to Israel, a stark contrast to what we see from (mostly protestant) churches here in the US.

[Petar]

Regardless of where you stand on the RCC, its nice to see the Vatican standing up to Israel, a stark contrast to what we see from (mostly protestant) churches here in the US.

You know what they say about glass houses...

[Natural Citizen]

The last time The Vatican spoke out of turn they promptly were threatened with an audit. So...Will have to keep an eye on that.

Was a serious conflict of interest last time as well so....will see if it's just busy work on their part this time around.