Anybody think in that picture the pope looks like he is straight out a horror movie. Those eyes & that evil looking smile.

What has the discrimination of Christians in Egypt to do with the Israeli/Palestinian problem ? And the violence against Christians in Iraq ? Freedom of worship of Christians in Saudi Arabia ? In fact most problems of Christians in the Middle East has nothing to do with Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The church is continuing in its habit to blame the Jews for everything.

exactly, I was going to say the same ,, you said it better...;-)) he heeeheheh bwah ba hah hhahah :-))

The first murder of a Jew by arabs occured in 1886 , near Nes Ziona . Long , long before the first arab was eliminated by Jews . And when Jews eliminated arabs , it was mostly as a retalation for the murder of Jews .

They're crazy! Go Israel!

If it were not so sad it would be funny with the Vatican releasing a document blaming Israel “occupying” land as the reason for driving Christians out of the Middle East. Let me try to understand this; the Vatican is planning to discuss the plight of Christians in the Middle East in October and this document represents the outline for these discussions. Having just spent a day with members of Israel’s Christian minority, hearing their stories of “jihad” against them by their Moslem neighbors, including stories of forced marriages of Christian women to Moslem men, Moslems harassing and threatening the Christians, an assault against the Christian mayor of Nazareth, multi-million dollar foreign Islamic investments “perseverance funds” to buy out Christians from their homes and businesses (I guess that they forgot they are supposed to be boycotting Israel), unilateral destruction of ancient archeological sites of historic significance to Judaism and early Christianity in an attempt to erase our respective connection from the Land, “conquering” of private Christian schools by Moslem students that relegates Christian students to public schools where they are threatened, boycotts of Christian owned businesses by their Moslem neighbors, and many other allegations that are too vast to list, it’s a wonder what planet the Vatican authors live on that a Jewish Israeli can understand the real threat to Christians in the Middle East that the Vatican can’t. Or, doesn’t want to. I wonder how my friend “Sami” would respond to the Vatican on this, a Lebanese Christian who welcomed Israel’s invasion to eliminate the PLO in 1982 but fled his home and homeland afterward because of the people who “stole” his home and business and “ruined” his life. Who were the thieves that ruined his life? Israel? No, Hizbullah. The Vatican would be well off to spend a day like I did and getting to know the worries and fears of their co-religionists before making stupid and incorrect, not to mention borderline anti-Semitic allegations. Placing blame on Israel for the plight of Christians in the Middle East is about as honest as saying Pope Pius saved millions of Jews during the Holocaust. When issuing documents, let the Vatican find some proof in their archives that disproves that he was no saint in this regard. And while they’re looking, perhaps they can return some of the loot from our Temple that the Romans destroyed 1960 years ago, lest they be accidental accomplices in erasing the Jewish, and Christian, roots of the Land of Israel. If the Vatican does not want to ask the Christians themselves, just take a look at the former Christian cities of Nazareth and Bethlehem. Churches are overshadowed by Mosques whose green illuminated minarets dominate the sky line like an Islamic game of connect the dots. But the Vatican is who needs to be connecting the dots to see the true picture that it is an intolerant stream of Islam that is the guilty party for the plight of the Christians here. Any Vatican discussion of the plight of Christians in the Middle East that is not grounded in reality will relegate the remaining Christians living as an endangered species to extinction. http://jonathanfeldstein.blogspot.com

There is a French saying : n'est pire aveugle que celui qui ne veut pas voir . The worse blind is this one who don't wants to see [ approx traduction ]

The Vatican needs to stop blaming the Jews, the brothers of Jesus for everything! Why doesn't the wealthy Catholic Church and all Christian churches take responibility to care for their own Middle Eastern Christian brothers? Is this not what Jesus and all the original Jewish Apostles called for? When will the Vatican stop blaming the Jews? Your last Crusade aganist the covenant land of the Jews failed. Are you going to try again? The Vatican's long history of blaming and persecuting the Jews is well documented. The Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the pograms all over 'Christian' Europe and even the churches neglect to help the Jews during the Holocaust in which six million Jews perished! The Catholic Church must own it's sinfully tarnished historical record concerning the Vatican's crimes against their elder brother, the Jews. The crimes were committed in name of our Hebrew Lord, Jesus The Messiah .... no less. Is the Hebrew, Joseph, son of Jacob, of the twelve tribes of Israel more forgiving of his brothers than Jesus is? Repent from this evil and take the log out of your own eyes. The Pope must also repent for being part of the German Nazi Youth Organization, "The Brown Shirts," who came against the Jews during WWII. It is the God of Israel we serve and the Bible is a Middle Eastern book written by the Jews! And we happen to share that book with the Jews. Jesus will return to Jerusalem someday to rule reign ... not to Rome, not to the Vatican! Then will the brother's of Jesus be safe from the Vatican and their accusations.

If Israel does not occupy the lands you can be sure that the inhabitants would perform greater attacks on Israel. What is Israel to do? Allow itself to suffer attacks or attempt to prevent them? Either way lands Israel in trouble. The issue is that all Islamic countries want Israel wiped out. Of course, the Pope is unlikely to suggest the Muslims are at fault, because he doesn't want to stir up a hornets nest and have hundreds of Catholics murdered due to such statements being made.

Catholic clergy have sheltered and saved tens of thousands Jews [ i was one of them ] during the Holocaust . Maybe some hundred , or more , were recognised as Righteous amongst the Nations By Yad Vashem . So , not ALL the Catholics were silent or did'nt do anything . It was almost COMPULSORY for German youth to be member of the hitler youth .

This from a church who has all the regalia of Baal, Dagon, and Diana (Ashtaroth) worship. Who cares what they say, they are dead men walking.

Israel is occupying their God given land and I have yet to read of a Jew beheading anyone or blowing anyone up. So, since those are traits of the true occupiers, I guess the arabs need to take their people back to their land, assimilate them back and quit using them as pawns trying to grab land from the God of the universe, the holder of their very life, from His chosen people, the Israeli, the Jew. Considering the crusades and how the Catholics killed many in their own power grab for wealth and land, their position is understandable. But they really need to read the Bible and allow it to transform the darkness that is on the Catholic religion.