Archives for: December 2005
Someone helpfully tells the Archbishop of Westminster the truth about Bethlehem.
December 31st, 2005Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, unquestioningly accepted and repeated the lies about Bethlehem which have become as much of a Christian tradition at Christmas as carols, cribs and lights on conifer trees: "Cardinal issues mi… more »
Christmas in Bethlehem: Santa got there after all.
December 27th, 2005The annual Palestinian propaganda-fest based on Bethlehem at Christmas has come and gone. Christian leaders like Bishop Sabbah and Mayor Victor Batarseh have told their lies, claiming that Bethlehem is a prison and everyone is thoroughly miserable bec… more »
Patriarch of Jerusalem hoping to wriggle out of his debts in Medieval fashion, by accusing Jews?
December 23rd, 2005In Anglicans for Israel, David Meir-Levi fisks Bishop Sabbah's supposedly peaceful statements.
Mr. Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, uses the language of peace and quotes the prophets of Jewish and Christian Scripture to present an image of pe… more »
National Council of Churches USA: we’re not like Mad Ahmadinejad!
December 21st, 2005Even anti-Semites are embarrassed by the recent statements of Ahmadinejad. Perhaps they think he is the sort who could give anti-Semitism a bad name. Jean Marie le Pen, for instance, professed himself 'shocked' by the Iranian President’s remarks. Ev… more »
IDF risk Jewish lives so Christians can attend church in Bethlehem. Church leaders still whine.
December 20th, 2005Israel will ease access to Bethlehem during the upcoming Christmas celebrations in a "calculated risk" intended to let Christian pilgrims worship the holiday freely in the West Bank town, security officials said Monday.
There are good reasons for the s… more »
Bishop Michel Sabbah sings that old favourite: “I’m dreaming of a wall-less Christmas”
December 19th, 2005The Patriarch of Jerusalem gave a homily before a ‘peace march’ to the ‘Wall’. In the looking-glass world he appears to occupy, the ‘wall’ results in more killing, whereas in the real world, the defensive barrier has resulted in a reduction in terrori… more »
Vatican official slams Iran over Holocaust remark
December 16th, 2005“Vatican official slams Iran over Holocaust Remark” it says in one headline, while the Vatican’s own news site gives us: Cardinal Rips Iranian's Remarks on Holocaust.
Rips? Slams? It begins to suggest a frame in a comic book, in which, accompanied b… more »
What’s the truth about Bethlehem?
December 16th, 2005A number of Church leaders are parroting the lies told about Bethlehem by Palestinian propagandists, like the supposedly ‘Catholic’ Marxist, terrorist-supporting Mayor of that town, Victor Batarseh.
Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, is this Christmas… more »
Scale of Wartime Killing of Jews in Ukraine Shocks Pope, while Iranian President doesn't believe a word of any of it.
December 15th, 2005While Iranian President Ahmadinejad denies that the Holocaust ever took place, Pope Benedict XVI has been having a history lesson in this subject, and believed it.
Benedict XVI expressed shock when he looked at the documents that showed the scale of th… more »
Latin Patriarch believes Anti-Terrorist Fence is useless. Does he also believe in Fairies and Father Christmas?
December 12th, 2005Bishop Michael Sabbah, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, planted an olive tree on the planned route of Israel’s anti-terror fence, and prayed for the removal of the barrier against mass murderers. The number of successful terrorist attacks has fallen shar… more »
Catholic Mayor of Bethlehem is even-handed: when PA lets him down he blames Israel, too.
December 9th, 2005O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
So starts the Christmas carol. Perhaps we should sing
O little Mayor of Bethlehem,
How often we hear thee lie!
The verse ends with the words:
The hopes and fears of all the year… more »
“Christian Hate?” writes to a Christian who hates.
December 7th, 2005Cyrus, of Christian Hate? has written a good response to the idiotic attack by the moderator of the Church of Scotland on the Israeli government for trying to defend themselves by constructing a barrier to keep terrorists out.
IN A stinging attack on t… more »
Vatican Newspaper Assails Attack in Israel
December 7th, 2005The Catholic response to the Palestinian terrorist attack is patchy and inadequate, but at least L’Osservatore Romano condemned it.
Monday's suicide attack in Israel is "another attack on the will to peace," says the Vatican's semiofficial newspaper.… more »
Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel. Will Christian Palestinian leaders condemn it?
December 5th, 2005Today, five innocent Israeli victims were murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Natanya. An unconvincing ‘condemnation’ was voiced by Mahmoud Abbas, who makes no attempt to curb terrorists in the PA. At least this Muslim Holocaust denier, who alle… more »
Father Christmas unable to enter Bethlehem because of apartheid wall? Will reindeer be held up at checkpoint?
December 2nd, 2005Forget the message of peace and good will which is supposed to come with Christmas – this is one of hate and ill-will from a group of Palestinian ‘Christians’. It is a long, whining screed, packed with every dishonest cliché they can find in the Palest… more »
Pope: Holocaust is an indelible disgrace in the history of humanity
December 1st, 2005The Holocaust was a "vile, murderous operation, that remains as an indelible disgrace in the story of human kind." Pope Benedict XVI does not mince his words when describing the deportation of Jews to the death camps. Commenting on the 136 psalm which e… more »