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by Giulio Meotti
• January 19, 2017 at 5:30 am
- By opening the
Palestinian embassy during this critical time of intensified
anti-Israel animosity, was the Pope justifying the Palestinian-Arab
attempt to isolate the Jewish State and to impose on it unacceptable
conditions of surrender through international pressure?
- Unfortunately,
Pope Francis's papacy has been marked by a long list of anti-Israel
gestures which did not advance the cause of peace the Pope claims to
champion.
- The Pope also
met with Palestinian "refugees," as if the 1948 war were
the source of conflict between the two peoples, instead of centuries
of Muslims having displaced Christians and other non-Muslims from
Persia, the Christian Byzantine Empire, North Africa, Southern
Spain, and most of Eastern Europe.
- The Pope called
Abbas an "angel of peace". Really? An angel of peace?
According to Shmuely Boteach, "Abbas spent his life murdering
Jews," by financing the Munich terror attack in 1972, by
inciting against Jews and by glorifying Palestinian terrorists. The
Pope, in short is praising a corrupt supporter of terrorists, a
torturer who has abolished any democratic process in the West Bank.
- During these
four years, Pope Francis has continually put significant barriers in
the way of peace between Israelis and Palestinians -- a peace based
on dialogue, mutual respect and the end of conflict. Instead, this
supposed man of peace has strengthened Abbas's refusal to negotiate
with the Jews -- the Christians' "elder brothers", as Pope
John Paul II bravely called them -- and to end hostilities with
them. If this is his view of Caritas, what a tragic shame.
Pope Francis approaches the separation barrier near
Bethlehem, May 25, 2014, on which was painted graffiti that comparing
Palestinians with Jews under the Nazis: "Bethlehem looks like the Warsaw
Ghetto." If it does, it only looks that way because, since the once
Christian-majority city Bethlehem was transferred to total Palestinian
Authority control in 1995, most of its beleaguered Christians have fled
due to Muslim persecution. (Image source: Al Jazeera video screenshot)
Mahmoud Abbas's activities in Rome began on January 14, with the
formal opening of the Palestinian Embassy to the Vatican.
The "Palestinian president," now in the twelfth year of
his four-year term, then met with Pope Francis for the third time since
the start of his papacy four years ago. The high-profile get-together
took place in the middle of the Palestinian attempt to bypass peace talks
with Israel and to internationalize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A few weeks ago, the UN Security Council, in Res. 2334, condemned
Israel for its "settlements"; failed to mention any wrongdoing,
such countless Palestinian stabbings and car-rammings of Israeli
civilians, and the Obama Administration, which had planned and orchestrated
the UN ambush, refused, for the first time in forty years, to veto the
anti-Israel resolution, thereby ensuring it would pass.
by Uzay Bulut
• January 19, 2017 at 4:45 am
- When one talks
about Christians in Turkey, one tends to think of them as migrants
who moved to the area after Muslims took over or as if Muslims have
always been the majority there.
- The truth is
Bilecik and the rest of Asia Minor, which today has a tiny,
dwindling Christian minority, used to be majority-Christian lands,
the great Christian-Byzantine Empire.
- "The Greek
community is dying, and it is not a natural death." — A Greek
an in Istanbul to Helsinki Watch, 1992.
- "The Greek
community in Istanbul today is dwindling, elderly and
frightened," Helsinki Watch reported. "Their fearfulness
is related to an appalling history of pogroms and expulsions that
they have suffered at the hands of the Turkish government." —
Helsinki Watch, 1992.
- "The
conquest of Bilecik is not a random conquest of a territory. The
conquest of Bilecik means the establishment of the Ottoman state.
And the establishment of the Ottoman state means the beginning of a
blessed march. When future generations see this project, they will
understand they should be proud of their ancestors and
history." — Selim Yagci, Mayor of Bilecik.
- As Turks are
taught to take pride in every single thing in their history --
including all of the crimes of their ancestors -- they still
continue committing similar crimes.
The historic Greek Hagios Georgios Church in Bilecik,
Turkey. (Image source: Dik Gazete video screenshot)
Turkish newspapers have recently reported that plans are underway to
restore the historic Greek Hagios Georgios Church, referred to as
"Aya Yorgi" in Turkish. The church will be converted into a
museum and a cultural site.
Osmaneli Mayor Munur Sahin said that the Ecumenical Patriarch of
Constantinople, Bartholomew I, also visited the region, and said:
"We re-evaluated the situation of the church. This place will
never be opened to worship again. It will serve as a museum and a
cultural venue. We obtained the necessary permits; we will bring movable
cultural artifacts from around Osmaneli and keep them here."
The restoration project, approved by the Council of Monuments, is
set to be finished in two years. The church lies in ruins -- largely
because the congregants were either murdered or forcibly deported during
and after the 1914-1923 Greek genocide.
by Burak Bekdil
• January 19, 2017 at 4:30 am
- Common sense
would expect such a front-runner victim at least to have some sense
of empathy for terror victims elsewhere. Right? Wrong. Not in
Turkey.
- Unfortunately,
Erdogan's ideological attachments visibly defeat his fake rhetoric
that there are no good terrorists and bad terrorists.
- Unsurprisingly,
Erdogan who "opposes terror regardless of the terrorist's
identity, rhetoric or [religious] faith ... whoever it
targets," has not condemned the latest attack in Jerusalem.
- Ten statements
in total condemning terror. Not a single word for the young victims
of terror in Jerusalem.
In a November interview, Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said that he does not view Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Pictured above: Erdogan (right) meeting with Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal
(center) and Ismail Haniyeh on June 18, 2013, in Ankara, Turkey. (Image
source: Turkey Prime Minister's Press Office)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a good point when, a
day after a terrorist attack in Istanbul killed 38 people on Dec. 10, he
said that he condemned all terrorism in Turkey and expected that Turkey
did the same when terror targeted Israel. "The fight against
terrorism must be mutual," Netanyahu said. "It must be mutual
in condemnation and in countermeasures, and this is what the State of
Israel expects from all countries it is in contact with, including
Turkey," Netanyahu said a day before Ankara and Jerusalem formally
normalized their frozen diplomatic relations. Netanyahu's expectation was
legitimate but not realistic, especially with Turkey.
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