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Pope to visit Bethlehem refugee camp
Sharon Roffe-Ofir
Published: 26.04.09, 20:17
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1. Pope gives credence to Ahmadinejad's charges
Steve   (04.26.09)
Iran's president, at the Durban Review Conference last week, charged, after World War II an apartheid, racist regime was established in Palestinian occupied lands. Pope Benedict will give credibility next month to these scurrilous, anti-Semitic charges against the Jews.
2. the poop
Lenny ,   NC USA   (04.26.09)
Why can't he just stay home, he causes enough trouble in the world from rome, when will the world get enough of this crap? Who does he think he really is anyway? He's just a man like the rest of us, there's nothing holy about him, and anyone who thinks there is, is kinda stupid. So there, he can just stay home and wear his yamika, his fish hat, and play tiddly-winks! Thanks, Lenny
3. Wasn't Jesus a Jew born in the Jewish city of Nazareth?
Russel ,   TLV   (04.26.09)
Just a thought when they mention "Right of Return"
4. PLEASE... don't confuse the Pope with...
Robert ,   USA   (04.26.09)
... Evangelical Christians who believe the Bible and stand with Israel. Some Roman Catholics may stand with Israel, nearly all evangelicals do and that will never change.
5. Just give the Vatican the tombs of David, Solomon, land
m   (04.26.09)
in Tveria and some other assets the Pope claims, then let the arab refugees from 60 years ago return with all their descendants. Don't forget to close the lights before you give them the keys of Eretz Israel.
6. #3 nope he was born in Bethlehem
(04.26.09)
7. The pope is coming to make trouble, cancel the invitation.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (04.26.09)
8. #3 so were Mohammad, Jesus, Moses & Abraham Muslims
observer   (04.26.09)
9. Russel #3: You're right.
Steve   (04.26.09)
"King of the Jews." That is what Matthew, Mark and Luke ostensibly wrote about the man. But PLO strong man, Yasser Arafat insisted Jesus was "Palestinian." He was not a Jew. Mr. Arafat met more than once with the late Pope John Paul II. Arafat was eulogized by the pope. He described the death of Arafat as "an hour of sadness" and he called mass-murderer an "illustrious" soul, etc. Who is the pope to believe? Matthew and Mark or Yasser Arafat?
10. Hail the pederast-in-chief
Gamilo   (04.26.09)
11. Last time a Christean came to Jerusalem he was crucified
Santa ,   North poll   (04.26.09)
12. what a farce these visits are
who cares   (04.26.09)
maybe the loving,gentle peaceful pals will kidnap him..
13. THE FORGOTTEN REFUGEES - 1,000,000 JEWS FROM ARABS LANDS ...
Avinu ,   Galut   (04.26.09)
The forgotten refugees - 1,000,000 Jews expelled !!!!!!! from arab lands !!!! .
14. no j and moshe and Avraham were not
yoki ,   usa, usa   (04.26.09)
Muslims/Islam came around 100s of year after "christianity" and 1000s of years after Moshe and the Israel people had the Torah given to us at Sinaii. Muhamed created his own religion, and his ramblings were later written down by his followers. No one was with him when he had his "vision" unlike we had the Torah given to us and we were all there, all several million of us. POPE TELL THE TRUTH! RELEASE YOUR STOLEN ARCHIVES OF JEWISH LITERATURE AND OUR TEMPLE OBJECTS STOLEN BY ROME 2000 YEARS AGO!
15. I liked when he visited us, the tips were great.
Ypip ,   Canada   (04.26.09)
16. LENNY ,NC,USA
shuli ,   uk   (04.26.09)
lenny ,you made me lough today.thanks for that.
17. Archaic Figurehead
Neki ,   Detroit   (04.26.09)
Why do we give this outdated persona a microphone to world policy? The Vatican has proven itself time and time again to be nothing but troublesome, to put it very lightly. Take off the pope's regalia and all there is left is an old man with nothing but expedient words attempting to maintain his role as a pseudo-leader. I agree, cancel his trip. No one really cares. I say round his ilk up along with all the other christian, islamic and jewish wackos in the world and put them in an mental institution where they belong. Medication can do wonders for their tyrannical delusions.
18. #8: You've got to be a Muslim!
Steve   (04.27.09)
Who else would make this statement, Jesus, Moses & Abraham were all Muslims? If Moses and Abraham were Muslims, they would have worshipped and served Allah but they did not serve Allah. They never mentioned his name. Nor did practice or teach Allah's laws. Neither Moses nor Abraham were jihad warriors. They did not "kill and be killed" in the name of Allah.
19. #13 Video Documentary on the Forgotten Refugees
(04.27.09)
Watch it here: http://tinyurl.com/dz8zf3 -rename fll to flv and watch it in VLC/Kmplayer If the link doesnt work, search "The Forgotten Refugees" in video.google.com or visit their website at http://www.forgottenrefugees.org/ AND Check out Pierre Rehov's "Silent Exodus" trailer here: http://www.shoebat.com/trailer_exodus.php
20. Nobody really cares to see him.
Efroim ,   Washington DC   (04.27.09)
A huge tzimes over a person nobody cares for.
21. India's Suffering Hindus Identify with Israeli SUFFERING
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (04.27.09)
In the last 10 years India suffered 60,000 terror attacks that killed about 18,000 people. The horrific Mumbai attack added to the list. India's suffering Hindus identify with Israeli suffering. Historian Will Durant: "The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within." We must fight for our survival before it is forever too late. In the the last 1400 years, radical Islam killed 270 million people: 120 million Africans, 60 million Christians, 80 million Hindus and 10 million Buddhists.
22. Cancel Visit
Brod ,   USA   (04.27.09)
Letting the Pope in will cause massive chaos and Propaganda boost for the Islamist-Jihadists detrimental to Israel. Israel should cancel this visit. Why invite trouble and chaos? Israel should say NO to all the manipulaters behind this impending visit. It is still not too late to cancel it.
23. The Pope
Ari ,   USA   (04.27.09)
Does anyone in the government know who and what this "Pope" represents???? In case they have forgotten: He represents those that burned down the 2nd Temple, took the Menorah and other ritual items, as they took the Jews from their land in slavery. He represents those who renamed the land "Palestine" to humiliate us, and to remove our heritage, and our G-D. He represents those who instituted anti-semitism throughout the world that led to the deaths of a countless number of Jews. He represents the Spanish Inquisition, and the enabling silence of the church during the Holocaust. This man represents everything evil and harmful to the Jews and Israel. And now we find that this pope, this spawn of the Hitler youth in religious robes, DEMANDS Mt Zion, parts of Jerusalem and other areas? He is here with one purpose in mind, to once again steal what is not his and what he covets. He is here once again to try to destroy the Jewish people and their nation, Israel. In this, he mocks G-D, and in this, he and the others will end: Ezekiel 36; Thus saith the L-rd GOD: Because the enemy hath said against you: Aha! even the ancient high places are ours in possession; therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the L-rd GOD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the rest of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; therefore thus saith the L-rd GOD: Surely in the fire of My jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed My land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with disdain of soul, to cast it out for a prey"; Joel 4: 4:2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land. 4:3 
And they have cast lots for My people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk. 4:4 
And also what are ye to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render retribution on My behalf? and if ye render retribution on My behalf, swiftly, speedily will I return your retribution upon your own head. Zechariah Chapter 12: 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it fall to be in the siege against Jerusalem. 3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Obadiah: 11 In the day that thou didst stand aloof, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. 15 For the day of HaShem is near upon all the nations; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.
24. #3 BETHELEHEM ALSO A JEWISH CITY, NOW OCCUPIED BY PAL-ARABS
AVRAHAM ben JACOB ,   CANADA   (04.27.09)
ALSO, HEBRON, JERICHO, JERUSALEM AND SO ON.........ALL ARE HEBREW NAMES.... ALL ARE ISRAEL CITIES. THE ARAB-MUSLIMS ARE "JOHNY-COME-LATELY" BUT WILL THEY SWEAR UP AND DOWN THAT ISRAEL BELONGED TO THEM. MUCH LATER THE MUSLIMS INVADED ISRAEL AND MANY OTHER PLACES IN THE MID-EAST AND FORCED THEIR RELIGION ON ALL WHO THEY CONQUERED. THESE ISRAEL CITIES DEFINITELY WERE NEVER BUILT BY MUSLIMS WHO DID NOT EVEN EXIST WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE BUILT THESE PLACES. HEBRON WAS THE CAPITAL CITY UNDER KING DAVID AND THEN JERUSALEM BECAME KING DAVID'S CAPITAL CITY OF ISRAEL. IT IS IRONIC THAT OTHER RELIGIONS AND OTHER PEOPLES CRAVE AFTER EVERYTHING WHAT IS "JEWISH" AND YET THEY HATE JEWS. ALSO IRONIC, THE MORE THE ARABS-MUSLIMS AND OTHERS MAKE THEIR HISTORICALLY FALSE CLAIMS, THE MORE IT MOTIVATES ME, AS A JEW TO STUDY MY OWN PEOPLE'S HISTORY. WE JEWS MUST HAVE DONE A LOT OF "GREAT THINGS" FOR CIVILIZATION THAT CAUSES OTHER PEOPLES TO CRAVE, TO BE ENVIOUS OF WHAT IS JEWISH AND TO COPY AND CLAIM EVERYTHING JEWISH.
25. #13 AVINU ... WE WON'T FORGET THIS TRUTH !
AVRAHAM ben JACOB ,   CANADA   (04.27.09)
'The forgotten refugees - 1,000,000 Jews expelled !!!!!!! from arab lands !!!! . " WE WON'T FORGET THIS ! THE MIRACLE IS THAT THE JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB COUNTRIES WERE WELCOMED TO ISRAEL AS OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ISRAEL DID NOT LEAVE THE MILLION JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB COUNTRIES TO LIVE IN THE DESERT IN REFUGEE CAMPS TO HAVE A REFUGEES' EXISTINCE.......... NOT LIKE THE OTHERS WE KNOW WHO MADE IT INTO A BUSINESS !!
26. The refugee problem is an internal Arab problem.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.27.09)
It is a hutzpa of historical dimensions and significance to ask Israel to even discuss giving an inch or paying a penny of the price of the refugee problem. And it is dangerous for any Israeli spokesman to even agree to take part in any discussion of the subject - at any forum or in any context whatsoever. Indeed, the Israeli government should long ago have declared - but even now it is not too late: "We shall not participate in any discussion of the so-called refugee problem. This is a problem the Arab nation must solve for itself in its own spacious territories." Facts and truth at : http://xrl.us/bkj57
27. Jews who left Arab countries were granted legal and ...
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.27.09)
Jews who left Arab countries were granted legal and political status, but without results. The Palestinian refugee problem has enjoyed great international attention: Out of 681 UN resolutions pertaining to the Middle Eastern conflict, about 101 pertain to Palestinian refugees, and immense international funds were invested in supporting them. At the same time, even though the question of Jews who left Arab countries was granted legal and political status (on two opportunities, the UN High Commission for Refugees confirmed that Jews who left Arab states following 1948 are refugees who deserve UN assistance) the issue was not promoted in practice. To learn more about Arab refugee and jewish refugee : http://xrl.us/bj5qy
28. #3 & #6 Both wrong
leoblue ,   NY TA   (04.27.09)
Jesus was not born in Bethlahem nor was he born in Nazareth. No one knows where he was born and no one knows when he was born, It is all a big 'bubba mynsa'.
29. Who needs this trouble?
Ilan ,   Ariel   (04.27.09)
Once it was easy to dismiss the Pope as just another German anti-semite. Now it is the only explanation for his behavior.
30. to #8 you r not sharp,
ghostq   (04.27.09)
observer that is.
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