Archives for: November 2006

29/11/06

Permalink 01:37:44 pm, by liz Email , 183 words, 154 views   English (UK)
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Pope protected by Mossad?

Whispers in the Loggia has picked up this claim: Mossad in Turkey to Assist Pope's Security.

Security precautions for Pope Benedict XVI, which are the same for visiting heads of state, will also reportedly be taken up by Israel's intelligence service the Mossad.

The Italian daily La Republica has reported that Mossad agents and Italian and Vatican security and intelligence officers have arrived in Turkey to help Turkish security units.

Well, that should have any paranoid anti-Semites tied up in knots of rage and anxiety. Like the woman who was quoted in yesterday’s story of the pro-life group booted out of a Catholic parish for linking to anti-Semitic websites, like that of Joanna Francis.

In other articles, Ms Francis has also claimed Pope Benedict XVI was a Zionist double agent

She will feel quite sure about it now. As will this crackpot sheik.

They've no doubt guessed the secret of the links between the Elders of Zion and the Elders of the Vatican and will be hastily donning their tinfoil hats to fend off any Zionist-Catholic mind control rays emanating from Turkey.

27/11/06

Permalink 02:13:52 pm, by liz Email , 301 words, 167 views   English (UK)
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Priest censures pro-life group for anti-Jewish views

Australian priest, Fr Dennis Carroll, has done the right thing.

The rector of St Carthage Cathedral, Lismore, northern NSW, has censured and cut parish links with a local pro-life group over alleged anti-Jewish views expressed on its website.

He published this notice in his parish bulletin on 19 November.

Very Important Notice

Dear Parishioners,

I take this extraordinary measure of announcing a

VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Parishioners are to note that the group "Apostles For Life" has lost my support and no longer has any status as a parish group. The group is discontinued.

The Leadership's publication still claims that the group meets here at St Carthage's Parish Centre. This is untrue and they have been asked to remove this misinformation from their website.

Parishioners should be wary of the anti Jewish views expressed in Apostle's (sic) for life website.

Fr. Dennis Carroll

The anti Jewish views 'included a linked article by anti-Semitic writer Joanna Francis, which says abortion-on-demand "for American Jews signified the beginning of their Messianic age, wherein they could now freely practice genocide against their ancient enemies, the Christians, with impunity".'

And for those who suspect that anti-Semites are basically crazy people, this may confirm your suspicions.

In other articles, Ms Francis has also claimed Pope Benedict XVI was a Zionist double agent and that Israeli snipers were killing US soldiers in Iraq.

Apostles for Life is run by Angela Martello and her husband Nadir.

The website is run by Ms Martello and includes a link to her husband's website, called Shedding Light, which includes more of Ms Francis' articles, links to anti-Semitic websites, including Holocaust denier Michael Hoffman, and Mr Martello's writings, the Star says.

Anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise in Australia - we need more like Fr Dennis Carroll, who recognise this evil and stand up to it.

23/11/06

Permalink 02:12:33 pm, by liz Email , 273 words, 128 views   English (UK)
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Priest and nun who collude with evil

Even Human Rights Watch, no friend of Israel, condemns the new nasty habit of Hamas.

Palestinian armed groups in Gaza have been criticised for risking civilians by asking them to gather at suspected militants homes targeted by Israel.

Human Rights Watch said that using civilians as human shields or knowingly putting them in danger, were breaches of international humanitarian law.

If Human Rights Watch can see that it is wrong, why can’t Father Peter Dougherty and Sister Mary Gondeck, who are willing accomplices in this crime? They are acting as human shields to protect Palestinian buildings.

Buildings are evidently of greater value than Israeli human lives to the pair, who support those who want to carry out genocide against the Jews. They remind me of these. But what can you expect of members of the International Solidarity Movement?

Sister Mary Ellen told Ynet, “We are here to find out the truth and to be with the family and these people, who are trying to prevent the demolition of a home where an entire family lives.”

How about the demolition of a life in Israel?

She also explained that she was well aware of the Qassam rockets fired from the northern Gaza Strip towards Sderot, and said, “I adamantly oppose and condemn the firings like I condemn all violence.”

It’s easy to use words like ‘adamantly oppose and condemn’ but if she really cared, Sr Mary Ellen would be in Sderot, acting as a human shield to protect people's lives, not inanimate objects. Or if she prefers buildings to people, why not try to protect a home, school or clinic in Sderot?

22/11/06

Permalink 01:28:19 pm, by liz Email , 504 words, 158 views   English (UK)
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Only Palestinian children feel traumatized

Only Palestinian children feel traumatized when Israelis try to defend themselves from attack by their parents - at least according to the Catholic News Service - Gaza students traumatized by fighting, says parish priest.

Students at a Catholic school in the Gaza Strip were left traumatized by days of fighting between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen, said the local parish priest.

The school, about five miles from Beit Hanoun, is run by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The priest said that students were frightened Nov. 6 and wanted to go home when they heard that a 16-year-old boy was killed and a teacher critically injured when an Israeli missile struck a group of youths on their way to school, but he convinced the students to stay.

"Our job is to study. That is our weapon against the Israelis," he said.

That and a huge number of missiles, anti-tank devices, etc. Note the level of Christian love and forgiveness taught by this Catholic priest. His Patriarch has always claimed that Palestinian violence was caused by the ‘occupation’ and love, peace, joy, butterflies, puppies and kittens would break out as soon as the Jews left. Now the Jews have moved out of Gaza, the violence against them has increased.

Does Fr Musallam condemn the Palestinians for responding in this way, and deliberately targeting innocent civilians? Or even for putting their own children at risk? No. Do any Catholic (or Anglican or Methodist) news outlets write sympathetically about the suffering of the Israeli children? Again, no.

Earlier this month, Ynet ran this item: Sderot: Traumatized kids have nowhere to run

Qassams close in on unfortified clinic treating children suffering from post-traumatic stress caused by rockets

The children treated at the clinic suffer from anxiety that manifests itself in fear of being outside the home, sleeping in their parents' bed, leaving the door open when they shower, oversensitivity to any noise, some suffer from bed wetting.

"Outside of school they basically have no lives," says Dr. Bason, "this is the only place that can help them but the day the rocket fell near the clinic the children refused to come."

The medical staff also fears how effective treatment will be says Dr. Bason: "You can't treat a child when you're feeling insecure, when there's a siren we stand close to the call, there's no where to run to from there and that only adds to their anxiety."


These traumatized Israeli children are victims of Palestinian aggression, but note the twisting of facts into lies in the words of Constantine Dabbagh, executive director of the Middle East Council of Churches' Gaza office.

"For five days (Beit Hanoun) is without food, without milk for the children. What is going on with the world? Is everyone sleeping? They should put more pressure on Israel to stop the aggression and find a solution. They won't break (the Palestinians') determination."

Israeli self-defence is ‘aggression’? The Palestinians’ determination to do what? Carry out genocide against the Israelis, according to their own statements. And this ‘Christian’ supports them.

20/11/06

Permalink 04:30:49 pm, by liz Email , 295 words, 188 views   English (UK)
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It’s International Zionist conspiracy time again!

Catholic bloggers Relapsed Catholic and the Curt Jester assure us that no, it’s not that international Zionist conspiracy yet again.

Via Kathy Shaidle

Quite possibly the world's stupidest Muslim guy actually asks, with a straight face, one presumes:

"Why has the [Nobel] Prize been awarded to 167 Jews and only 4 Arabs?"

Curt Jester explains carefully to him:

Because you don't get the Nobel for perfecting suicide bomber belts and making explosive shoes. This maybe also explains why the issuance of patents to those in Arab countries has slowed to a crawl. I read this tidbit before.

According to the 2003 Arab Human Development Report, between 1980 and 1999 the nine leading Arab economies registered 370 patents (in the US) for new inventions. Patents are a good measure of a society's education quality, entrepreneurship, rule of law and innovation. During that same 20-year period, South Korea registered 16,328 patents for inventions. You don't run into a lot of South Koreans who want to be martyrs.

Samir 'Ubeid, after complaining that so few Arabs have won the Nobel prize (well, think of all they might achieve if they redirected the energy they use for hating Israel into more positive channels), says that it's no good any way: "This prize stems from the core of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Relapsed Catholic comments:

"The Nobel Prize is evil and we want one anyway! Even though we don't do anything to deserve it! We invented chess, remember?!"

Doesn't this remind you of those Muslim leaders who complain that Holocaust Remembrance Day makes them feel "left out." Left out of the gas chamber??

That reminds me – if Team Evil Arab Hackerz didn’t waste time attacking pro-Jewish websites and did something useful instead, just think of all the Nobel Prizes they might win.

17/11/06

Permalink 03:49:54 pm, by liz Email , 325 words, 132 views   English (UK)
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Those easy lies about Palestinian ghettos

It’s so easy to pick up those lying propaganda phrases helpfully offered by Christian Arabs, among others. It’s so easy to declare that Bethlehem is a ghetto, or that Israelis are the new Nazis, or that their defense barrier against terrorists is an ‘apartheid wall’. The repetitious chant of these lies may brainwash the unthinking listener into believing that they are true.

We need a few more people to stand up and shout, breaking into the chant with cries of: “That’s a lie!”

Is Australian priest Fr Frank Brennan stupid? He is certainly ignorant of history and deeply insensitive. He is probably prejudiced, too, or he would not have accepted these lies without question. They simply don’t make sense – as Melbourne Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence pointed out.

During a Holocaust memorial ceremony to mark Kristallnacht, Brennan referred to the "ghetto-like conditions of Bethlehem". Insensitive? Certainly. Ignorant and stupid? Well, what do you think?

Ghettos were established by the Nazis during World War II to confine Jews into tightly packed areas, resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of people.

It was "singularly inappropriate and distasteful" to make "a parallel between Hitler's persecution of the Jews and Israeli policy to Palestinians", Rabbi Lawrence wrote. "That suggestion is grotesquely offensive".

A statement issued by the CCJ this week said it "deplores the analogy drawn between Israel and Nazi Germany. Israel is a democratic state with an enfranchised Christian and Muslim population, represented in the Knesset. In Nazi Germany, Jews were disenfranchised, denied permission to work and were rounded up for systematic slaughter."

The Nazis were not defending themselves from suicide bombings and massacres by the Jews when they shut them into ghettos.

Brennan does not really seem to understand the inappropriateness and dishonesty of his words.

"I am apologising for any hurt which was caused by the phraseology in my text," he said.

But he can’t see anything wrong with it really.

16/11/06

Permalink 04:10:50 pm, by liz Email , 553 words, 194 views   English (UK)
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Priest chronicles the Holocaust of the bullets

Fr Patrick Desbois is described as “a human bridge between the modern Jewish world and the Catholic Church and a major conduit through which the Holocaust would be remembered”.

Father Patrick Desbois has become one of the world's foremost chroniclers of what the French call the Shoah par Balles - the Holocaust of bullets. Though neither Jewish nor Ukrainian, he spends half his year combing the poverty-stricken landscape of Ukraine to document the annihilation of tens of thousands of Jews at the hands of traveling bands of Nazis called the Einsatzgruppen.


He has been canonized by Haaretz (!) which calls him “Patrick the Saint”

The priest, who has devoted his clerical life to fighting anti-Semitism, is uncovering, village by village, unmarked mass graves from the Holocaust era. Here the Jews were shot, one by one, mother in front of child, child in front of father.

The "Holocaust of bullets" was every bit as brutal as the extermination of Jews by gas chamber, starvation, and other means at Auschwitz and elsewhere in Europe. Yet the depth and details of the tragedy in Ukraine have only recently surfaced.


His patient work has produced a large quantity of valuable information.

Early in his career as a priest, he was appointed by the Cardinal of Lyon to aid the church's liaison to the Jewish community. Desbois was already studying Judaism and began to learn Hebrew.

To this day, he helps organize conferences between Catholics and Jews, and leads Holocaust study tours for young Catholics and other students. On one of those trips in the late 1990s, he stopped at the site of his grandfather's prison camp. A memorial there was all but destroyed.

Over the years, as he worked to repair the marker, he kept asking about "the others." The mayor of the village showed him where the camp's Soviet prisoners were buried. "I said, 'OK, [and] where is the mass grave of the Jews?' " Desbois recalls. "He told me, 'I don't know. I don't know. We never found it.' And I said, 'How could it be that more than 10,000 Jews were killed in the village ... and you don't know?'

This enormous chapter in the nightmare story of the Holocaust is too little known. A priest of my acquaintance chanced to read about it a few years ago. He had never heard about the mass shootings before and was shocked. This was at that time in the current ‘intifada’ when Palestinian murderers were routinely shooting Jews as they drove past. My priest acquaintance is no friend of Israel, but he immediately saw the connection. “The same thing is still going on today”, he said, sadly. “Only it’s the Palestinians who are shooting the Jews.”

In the Ukraine, “the Jews were shot, one by one, mother in front of child, child in front of father.”

And here is a reminder of a similar more recent incident.

After spraying the station wagen with bullets, the Palestinian terrorists walked up to the 4 terrified little girls and shot each one of them twice in the head, police said. The 8-month-old pregnant mother was shot in her belly at point blank range as she tried to cover her children

The victims of the attack were identified as Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2)

Palestinians became the new Nazi Einsatzgruppen.

15/11/06

Permalink 04:42:51 pm, by liz Email , 394 words, 188 views   English (UK)
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Like conjoined twins, sharing a heart of hatred

Sabeel and Christian Aid are like conjoined twins, sharing the same organ – a heart full of hatred for the Jewish State. Among other places, they are joined at that part of their corporate anatomy called the Christian Aid Information Officer for the Middle East. This Officer, Ramani Leathard, is also a member of Friends of Sabeel UK. (They are also joined at that point called their Bishop Gladwin, who is patron of Sabeel UK and chair of the Board of Trustees of Christian Aid.)

A leaflet from FOSUK tells the reader that “Friends of Sabeel and Christian Aid invite you to join them in an Advent Reflection with Ramani Leathard” on 11 December in Manchester. There they will listen to a report from the November Sabeel International Conference, and discuss “the current situation of Christian Aid partners in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.

Just a reminder: Sabeel leader Naim Ateek wants to see the destruction of the Jewish State, in a one-state solution.

In the same mail-out, Friends of Sabeel encourage the reader to take part in an anti-Israel lobby of Parliament at the House of Commons on 29 November. That date is set by corrupt, tyrant-dominated, terrorist-sympathising organization, the UN, as ‘International Day for Palestine’. This corrupt, etc, organization keeps no International Day for Israel.

The lobby of Parliament calls for a release of all Hamas mass-murdering terrorist politicians voted for by their morally bankrupt people. It calls for an end to the blockade on this small territory run by genocidal maniacs, so that they can fulfil their intentions unimpeded. It also calls for an end to Israeli attempts to defend itself from attack by the same genocidal maniacs.

It fails to call for an end to attacks on Israelis by Palestinians.

Detailed instructions are given on how to contact your MP, and “secondly, please let us know when you have an appointment with your MP so we can co-ordinate with other people in the same constituency.” So much for supposedly well-organised Zionists plotting to further their plans – it is the enemies of the Jews who are so well-organised and determined, driven by the burning fuel of their hatred.

The lobby of Parliament is organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, CAABU and organizations including Pax Christi, Amos Trust and War on Want.

Oh yes, and Ramani Leathard is also a trustee of the Amos Trust.

14/11/06

Permalink 09:38:22 pm, by liz Email , 251 words, 141 views   English (UK)
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Challenge to the Episcopal Church

'Massacre of Jenin?' Massacre of the truth, more like. Dexter Van Zile has challenged the Episcopal Church's continuing promotion of this tired old blood libel on its website.

He has written letters to Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, new Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, and Rev. Canon Brian Grieves, Director of the Peace and Justice Ministries.

Perhaps the clearest demonstration of the distorted narrative offered by the Episcopal Church about the Arab-Israeli conflict is to visit the church’s website (www.episcopalchurch.org) and enter "Jenin" into the search engine located at the top right hand corner of the site’s front page. As of this writing (Oct. 13, 2006), the site’s search engine provides links to a total of nine articles mentioning Jenin, the scene of fierce fighting between the IDF and Palestinian terrorists in April 2002. The first of these links is a four-year-old article that falsely accuses Israel of digging mass graves at Jenin and inaccurately portrays the battle as a "massacre."

Then, by way of comparison, go to the same search engine and plug in the word "Netanya," the name of a city in Israel that was the scene of a horrific suicide bombing that killed 30 Israelis and injured 140 others in March 2002 during a Passover festival meal. As of this writing, the site’s search engine returns no links at all even mentioning this city, or the attack.

Will either of them respond to these letters? More importantly, will anything be done about the prejudice underlying all this?

13/11/06

Permalink 03:16:56 pm, by liz Email , 413 words, 195 views   English (UK)
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Elders of Zion and Elders of the Vatican meet secretly

After recent unsuccessful attempts to tunnel under the cyber ‘wall’, built around this site by the Elders of Zion, the Evil Arab Hackerz (or whatever they call themselves) have made another attack on the Vatican website.

As they hurled themselves at it, they merely hit the invisible wall built around it by the Elders of the Vatican and bounced back, with their tiny brains rattling around inside their spinning heads.

For the second time in as many months, computer hackers affiliated with a radical Islamic group tried and failed to penetrate the Vatican web site, the Italian AGI news service reports.

According to the AGI news story, an attack was launched on November 9, but thwarted by security measures on the Vatican site. A similar effort to disrupt the Vatican internet site was made in October-- again without any significant effect.


Could the Elders of Zion and the Elders of the Vatican be sharing information? Certainly the evil jihadi puppet-masters who run Iran think so.

Kissinger, Pope's Advisor!

According to the Italian daily La Stampa, the Leader of the Catholic sect of Christianity, Pope Benedict XVI has called on former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, a Jew who does not believe in either Prophet Jesus (peace upon him) or his Virgin mother, Mary (peace upon her), to become a member of the Vatican’s consultative council on foreign policy, a call the latter accepted.

Reminder to Iranian mullahs: Jesus (peace be upon him) and his Virgin mother, Mary (peace upon her) were both Jews, like Kissinger.

High-ranking sources at the Vatican said important talks are going on between the Pope and Kissinger.

This Iranian news site reminds us that “The current Pope and Kissinger are both of German origin”, no doubt thinking that will make it so much easier for an Elder of Zion and the chief Elder of the Vatican to plot together against the Axis of Evil.

Their topic of cooperation is secret but the most important topics are related to resurgent Islam, which is claiming more and more adherents around the globe, the situation in US-occupied Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, the so-called fight against what the US views as terrorism, Vatican’s ties with Washington, and issues pertaining to Africa.


Perhaps they are also exchanging information on how to keep hackers from the Axis of Evil out of their respective websites.

Just a reminder of how evil the jihadi puppet-masters of Iran are. Iran: 10 death sentences after one-day trials without witnesses.

10/11/06

Permalink 04:10:51 pm, by liz Email , 208 words, 136 views   English (UK)
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Some things are always worth repeating

Via Whispers in the Loggia, Catholics and Elder Brethren, Together, a statement from the 19th International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee. Cardinal Kasper represented the Catholic Church.

Some things are always worth repeating. Like this:

The ILC also focused on specific issues that followed from the deliberations at the 18th meeting: in particular, the need to expand and intensify cooperation between our communities, to condemn and respond to resurgent anti-Semitism, bigotry and terrorism. We again recall the words of Pope John Paul II that anti-Semitism is a sin against God and humanity.

And this:

At the same time as we face the terror of pestilence and poverty we face the terror of human violence and hatred. In this context we condemn Holocaust denial and reaffirm the commitment to the right of the Jewish State to live in security and peace.

Let’s just remind ourselves of something this group of Catholic and Jewish leaders said in 2004.

We draw encouragement from the fruits of our collective strivings which include the recognition of the unique and unbroken covenantal relationship between God and the Jewish People and the total rejection of anti-Semitism in all its forms, including anti-Zionism as a more recent manifestation of anti-Semitism.

The truth always sounds sweet, doesn’t it?

09/11/06

Permalink 02:37:19 pm, by liz Email , 216 words, 144 views   English (UK)
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Army shelling kills many civilians: large scale hypocrisy breaks out

Bet you thought the headline was about Palestinians in Gaza, didn’t you? No, it’s about 45 people killed, including children, when Sri Lankan army shells hit a school near a Tamil camp.

Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka accused government forces of killing 45 civilians yesterday as they sheltered in a school — the bloodiest incident yet since peace talks collapsed last month.

It all sounds depressingly familiar.

The Government denied any knowledge of civilian casualties and accused the Tigers of using human shields during a mortar and artillery exchange in the eastern district of Batticaloa.

A military spokesman said that the army had been responding to shelling from Tiger positions, which killed five soldiers yesterday.


But where are the worldwide condemnations?

Why the silence from aid agencies? After all, more died in the Sri Lankan incident than in Gaza.

Will the UN devote a special meeting to this event, as they will for the deaths of the 18 Gazans?

Of course, Independent Catholic News and Ekklesia leap on the indignation bandwagon about Gaza – but not about the bigger event in Sri Lanka. They amplify the indignation of Caritas and Christian Peacemaker Teams, whose well of sympathy seems drained by the Palestinians, leaving none for Sri Lankans.

Why is that? No Jews involved in the deaths in Sri Lanka?

08/11/06

Permalink 06:44:38 pm, by liz Email , 131 words, 126 views   English (UK)
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Pope offers to meet families of kidnapped soldiers

Just to take away the bad after-taste from Bishop Sabbah's twisted statement, here is some good example from his leader. Will he follow it?

Pope offers to meet families of kidnapped Israeli soldiers.

Pope Benedict XVI offered to meet with the families of the three kidnapped soldiers Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a letter to former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.

In the letter, the Pope also told of his failed attempt to make contact with the kidnappers to gather information as to their condition.

As good speaks to evil, will evil listen?

Lau hoped that Hizbullah would nevertheless acquiesce to the Pope's request to permit a Red Cross representative to visit the soldiers.

How many other people outside Israel have remembered the plight of the kidnapped soldiers?

Permalink 01:41:33 pm, by liz Email , 406 words, 260 views   English (UK)
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The Bishop of Back-to-Front

Age does not invariably bring wisdom with it, as is proved by the latest words of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. From his usual position in the upside down world of Back-to-Front Land, Bishop Sabbah blames the victims of terrorism and their supporters, but not the terrorists.

"But if the U.S. wants Israel to survive, to be recognized, then it should take measures to surround Israel with friends. But current U.S. policy is surrounding Israel with enemies. That's not the way to protect your friend." Israeli forces moved into the Gaza Strip Nov. 1 in an effort to halt rocket assaults on southern Israel. Five days of Israeli air raids and gunfire left nearly 50 people dead. Patriarch Sabbah said the United States and Israel were provoking conflict and that the Palestinians were reacting to Israeli oppression.

Perhaps his memory is becoming faulty in his old age. He forgets that the Arabs have been making genocidal attacks on the Jews long before ‘current US policy’. They were trying to wipe out the Jewish State while the West Bank was still part of Jordan and Gaza was part of Egypt – long before the ‘occupation’. They were carrying out massacres of Jews for decades before the State of Israel even existed. Poor old fellow must have forgotten.

Melanie Phillips reminds us of the real reason for Palestinian violence: Nazi-style hatred.

She writes about the film “Obsession”

More than that, this film shows in graphic and undeniable detail that this jihad is a direct descendant of Nazism. It has clear historical links – it was to the Nazi-supporting Mufti of Jerusalem in 1941 that Hitler vouchsafed that he intended first and foremost a war of extermination against world Jewry; it has the same agenda of genocide of the Jews and world domination, and the same techniques (and almost identical motifs and visual imagery) of whipping up a frenzy of murderous rage against America and the Jews through repeated hysterical claims of their purported and infernal intention to destroy the Islamic world, conveyed through truly diabolical imagery straight out of the handbooks of medieval and Nazi blood-lust.

She demolishes Bishop Michel Sabbah’s claim.

The widespread belief in the west that jihadism, suicide bombers and the rest of it are merely responses to recent actions by Israel or America, or to ‘oppression’ by Israeli occupiers, is demonstrably ridiculous.

Is Bishop Sabbah’s statement merely ignorant or malicious? It is certainly “demonstrably ridiculous”.

06/11/06

Permalink 04:31:53 pm, by liz Email , 246 words, 936 views   English (UK)
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Apartheid Walls, Peace Lines and Environmental Barriers

But I thought it was all the fault of the Jews and their ‘wall’ that the Christian population of Bethlehem was shrinking? At least, according to various bishops and others.

Walls are bound to drive Christians away – aren’t they? Unless, of course, they are in Belfast and called a Peace Line, Ethnic Interface or an Environmental Barrier. That sounds different from an ‘apartheid wall’, even though it looks like a pretty serious wall.

Now even the BBC is telling us the real reason given by Bethlehem Christians for their dwindling numbers. The Christian population of Bethlehem, formerly 80%, has shrunk to 15%.

Publicly Christians here insist there is no friction with the Muslim majority.

Earlier this year though the Islamist Hamas movement came to power.

And in private some say they now dress more conservatively. There have also been fights between Christian and Muslim families.

Father Majdi Syriani says the problem is not local, but global.

"The whole world is polarising around western Christianity and Islam," he says. "This is a true threat, not for me but the whole world."

"Bethlehem is the focal point. It's not because my Muslim people are threatening me. It's because the whole world is polarising. And it scares me."

Bethlehem's Christians are not just scared. They feel weak and squeezed.

So it’s not the fault of the Jews and their attempts to defend themselves from genocidal mass-murderers – and even some Christians are beginning to admit it more openly, it seems.

03/11/06

Permalink 11:43:20 am, by liz Email , 371 words, 419 views   English (UK)
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Sneaky Weevil Hackers

Are Team Evil Arab Hackerz trying to tunnel under the cyber ‘apartheid wall’ built by the Elders of Zion to protect this site from their attacks?

The Elder of Zion Administrator of the site received an email apparently signed by himself. I can’t remember the exact words, but it went something like this:

Dear Elder of Zion Administrator,

Please click on the link in this email. I need to check your password and a few other details connected with your account, such as the exact plans for the Zionist take-over of the world, how many banks they own, the number of media outlets they influence, etc. May I remind you that I particularly need to check your password.

So please click on the link admin@zionismontheweb.org, which will lead immediately to a completely genuine page. You will feel at home there, and ready to trust all your information to us.

And don’t forget to remind me of your password. I already know it, of course, but just want to check that you remember it, too. And all the other stuff.

Yours very sincerely (don’t forget the password!)

Elder of Zion Administrator

PS Did I mention that you should type in your password?

Naturally, the Elder of Zion Administrator was suspicious about this email from himself.

Could it be a false message from the hackers who attacked the site earlier? These same villains also tried to attack the Vatican website recently, but failed, probably thanks to this special Vatican software Red Hat Linux.

Perhaps a Jewish version could be developed by the Elders of Zion. I hope the Elders of the Vatican will share this software knowledge, as an expression of their growing warmth towards the Jewish people.

Now if the Anglicans and certain other Protestant Churches had not wasted so much time, energy and other resources on the subject of divestment from Israel, just think what they could have achieved. They could have helped so many poor and needy people, healed the sick, given solace to those in sorrow, set up innumerable useful projects in the developing world. They could have loved their neighbour. They could even have developed cunning computer software to protect themselves from hackers.

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