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by Denis MacEoin
• August 30, 2015 at 5:00 am
- That a serious
Christian can place political agreement with an intransigent enemy
before the simple morality of calling for an immediate end to terrorism
beggars belief.
- Given that the
Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel or the rights of the Jewish
people, the Pope's recognizing a state of Palestine seems a
contradictory gesture. By making this badly-thought-out choice, the
Vatican simply encourages the Palestinians in their conviction that
their tactics of violence, rejection of peace offers and glorification
of terrorists and suicide bombers across their towns and villages is,
regardless of all morality and prudent policy, the right course of
action.
- If morality is at
stake, it will also enthuse them to continue with the lies about Jews,
hate videos, hate preaching, false historicism, and school textbooks and
TV shows that teach children to despise Jews as "sons of apes and
pigs." Is that what the Vatican really wants? Is that a goal
remotely in keeping with the wishes of Pope Francis?
- "Christian
children are massacred, and everything is done in plain sight. Islamists
proclaim on a daily basis that they will not stop until Christianity is
wiped off the face of the earth. So are the world Christian bodies
denouncing the Islamic forces for the ethnic cleansing, genocide and
historic demographic-religious revolution their brethren is [sic] suffering?
No. Christians these days are busy targeting the Israeli Jews. The Pope,
who should represent the voice of one billion Catholics around the
world, was not busy these days in writing an encyclical against the
Islamic persecution of Christians. No, the Catholic Church was very busy
in signing a historic agreement with the "State of Palestine,"
a non-existent entity which, if it (God forbid) should be created, would
be the first state after the Nazi Germany to officially ban the Jews and
expel the remnant of its Christians." – Giulio Meotti, journalist.
- One might safely
assume that Jesus would never have approved of Palestinian
anti-Semitism, the preaching of bilious hatred, or the infliction of
violence on innocent followers of the community to which he himself and
his mother belonged.
- According to Jerusalem
Post columnist Max Samarov, "In a defining moment, UCC
[United Church of Christ] officials rejected an amendment calling on the
church to listen to Israeli perspectives and encourage cooperation
between Israelis and Palestinians." Clearly, a search for truth and
an openness to dialogue form no part of the UCC's agenda.
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Rifat Odeh Kassis, co-author and general coordinator of
the World Council of Churches (WCC) Kairos Palestine initiative, former
head of the WCC's Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and
Israel, and Special Adviser to the WCC's General Secretary, is pictured
above giving an interview to Al-Manar TV, the official TV channel of
Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorist organization. (Photo source: Kairos
Palestine)
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When the Vatican recognized a self-proclaimed "State of
Palestine" on June 22, 2015, it not only defied international law --
there is no such state to recognize -- it acted immorally in religious terms.
In July, the Holy See praised the controversial nuclear deal between
Iran and several Western states and said it viewed the agreement in "a
positive light." According to the Catholic News Agency, Bishop Oscar
Cantu of New Mexico stated, applying a logic that defies understanding, that
"Iran's hostility to its neighbors in the Middle East is all the more
reason for the international agreement on its nuclear program." The
agreement will allow Iran to acquire as many nuclear bombs as it likes after
ten years, or sooner, plus the intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver
them to America.
by Burak Bekdil
• August 30, 2015 at 4:00 am
- It came as no
surprise that the Islamic State recently threatened to "conquer
Istanbul."
- The AKP,
preparing for snap elections on Nov. 1 -- only five months after
parliamentary elections were held on June 7 -- must now fight two
asymmetrical wars against radical Islamists and Kurdish separatists at
the same time and in three theaters of war: Iraq, Syria and Turkey. It
is also calculating the damage the renewed wave of violence could
inflict on its popularity in the elections.
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Mourners, politicians and military officers verbally
clash at the funeral of army Captain Ali Alkan in Osmaniye, Turkey, on
August 21.
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The Kurdish militants and the jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria (Islamic State, or IS), which have been battling each other in
northern Syria for the past several months, now have a common enemy: Turkey.
After several months of reluctance, Turkey has just joined a U.S.-led,
international coalition fighting IS. Turkey agreed to allow the U.S. military
to use Turkish air bases for airstrikes against IS strongholds in Syria. Turkey
said on August 24 that it would, together with the U.S., soon launch
comprehensive air strikes against IS targets. "The technical talks have
been concluded, yesterday, and soon we will start this operation,
comprehensive operations, against Daesh [IS]," Turkish Foreign Minister
Mevlut Cavusoglu said. One might say, "too little, too late."
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