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1. Article by Mark Pelavin, Director of the Commission on Interreligious Affairs of Reform Judaism, on the pope's response Mark Pelavin's "Some Christian Reactions to Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav
Bombing [sic!]" can be read at In case, hopefully, Mr. Pelavin edits his article, showing the victims the most minimal respect by accurately describing how they were murdered (by 'shooting' not 'bombing'), and reversing his whitewash of the pope's whitewash of terror - in case Mr. Pelavin does the right thing, then, just for the historical record, we have archived his article as it appears Mar. 13, 2008, at http://tenc.net/a/pel.htm [Note added mar. 18, 2008: I see that as of today Mr.
Pelavin has not changed the article, which also includes a link,
described as taking one to the "Reform Movement’s statement on the
bombing" but which in fact ends in a blank page. Rather
disappointing – Jared Israel] The youtube video below shows what happens when a rocket slams into a factory in the Israeli city of Sderot.
For Hamas and the PLO, murdering civilians is the goal, not an unfortunate byproduct of 'military' action. The youtube video below shows some of the thousands celebrating the murder of eight students and wounding of many others March 6 in the library at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva (religious school) in Jerusalem.
English [English translation starts here] Before bishops take possession of their dioceses, they swear an oath of allegiance to the Reichsstatthalter [Governor of the Reich, the representative of Hitler in the Reich provinces, whose task was to guarantee the implementation of Hitler’s political directives – Samantha Criscione] in the regional State concerned, or to the President of the Reich, according to the following formula: "Before God and on the Holy Gospels I swear and promise, as becomes a bishop, loyalty to the German Reich and to the [regional] State of [name of state - SC]. I swear and promise to honour the Government formed in accord with the Constitution and to cause my clergy to honour it. In dutiful solicitude for the welfare and the interest of the German State, I will, while exercising the religious post that has been assigned to me, strive to prevent any harm that could threaten it." [English translation ends here] *** German Bevor die Bischöfe von ihrer Diözese Besitz ergreifen, leisten sie in die Hand des Reichsstatthalters in dem zuständigen Lande bzw. des Reichspräsidenten einen Treueid nach folgender Formel: "Vor Gott und auf die heiligen Evangelien schwöre und verspreche ich, so wie es einem Bischof geziemt, dem Deutschen Reich und dem Lande .... Treue. Ich schwöre und verspreche, die verfassungsmäßig gebildete Regierung zu achten und von meinem Klerus achten zu lassen. In der pflichtmäßigen Sorge um das Wohl und das Interesse des deutschen Staatswesens werde ich in Ausübung des mir übertragenen geistlichen Amtes jeden Schaden zu verhüten trachten, der es bedrohen könnte." ***
Italian
«Davanti a Dio e sui Santi Vangeli, giuro e prometto,
come si conviene ad un Vescovo, fedeltà al Reich Germanico e allo Stato
.... Giuro e prometto di rispettare e di far rispettare dal mio clero il
Governo stabilito secondo le leggi costituzionali dello Stato.
Preoccupandomi, com'è mio dovere, del bene e dell'interesse dello Stato
Germanico, cercherò, nell'esercizio del sacro ministero affidatomi, di
impedire ogni danno che possa minacciarlo».
These comments were widely published and broadcast on
TV. The fact that the said German bishops had such catchy (if
ugly) remarks ready for journalists, who were perhaps waiting
to receive them, more than suggests that the bishops were
reciting scripted lines. For a news report published at the time, see
"Bishops equate Israel's actions to Holocaust," by Eldad Beck,
Ynetnews.com, March 6, 2007 Archived for educational purposes at Archived for educational purposes at
"Vatican official says Palestinian refugees have right Archived for educational purposes at In the BBC Monitoring translation of a Croatian Television interview posted following my remarks, former Croatian foreign minister Granic reports that the vatican ordered the Croatian-Muslim unity that made possible the genocidal assault on the Krajina region of Yugoslavia. The vatican never talks about the return of the approximately 300,000 people driven from the Krajina, into refugee status, although this indisputable act of genocide was committed by Croatian officials reportedly operating under its guidance, if not control. Overview: Twice in 1995 - first in May and then on a much larger scale in August - the Croatian army attacked the Krajina region that overlaps the border between Croatia and Bosnia, and that has long been home to very independent-minded Serbs. (They originally settled there as farmer-troops, guarding the border with the Ottoman Empire.) The Croats, led by the US military in the thinly disguised form of 'retired' US top military officers in the private military force, MPRI, expelled the population - over 250,000 Serbian residents and 50,000 pro-Yugoslav Bosnia Muslims who had taken refuge there. The precondition for the attack was the unity of Bosnian Muslim extremist forces under Alija Izetbegovic with Croatian forces in Bosnia and Croatia proper. Until the beginning of 1994, such unity was impossible because the Bosnian Croats under Mate Boban were fighting Izetbegovic. But Boban was forced to stand down in February 1994; the Croats and Muslim extremists became allies; and the Serbs and progressive Muslims were driven into desperate exile. (Unknown but not small numbers were killed.) According to most accounts, it was the US that pressured Croatian president Tudjman to get rid of Mate Boban. But according to Mate Granic, Croatian foreign minister at the time, the decisive pressure came from the pope. The US pressure was public but, apparently, the pope's was effective. Granic told Croatian TV that he met with the pope and the vatican secretary of state on Feb. 1 and 2, 1994; the pope made a general statement about Croatia's "main task" being to end Croatian conflict with the "Bosniaks," meaning Bosnian Muslim extremists, who were fighting Yugoslav loyalists Bosnian Muslims and Serbs. The pope's lofty status precludes giving specific orders, so, at lunch, when the pope was absent, his subordinate, the Vatican secretary of state, gave the specific order: get rid of Mate Boban, the Bosnian Croat who was leading the fight with the Muslim extremists. Former foreign minister Granic reports that Boban stepped down one week later, Feb. 9. According to Granic, the vatican's reason for wanting Boban out was its concern for vatican-Islamic relations. Of course, since 'Islam' is not a monolith, and especially not a monolith in Bosnia - Bosnia involved, among other things, a Muslim civil war - this meant 'vatican-Muslim extremist' relations. I think the pope said more but that Granic wanted to to avoid discussing a certain, more important reason for the pope's demand, since discussing it is a no-no on Croatian TV: the need for Croat-'Bosniak' unity in order to launch an effective attack on the Krajina Serbs. In any case, that is what did happen: the horrific unity was achieved; the horrific attack took place. By mid-August 1995 the Serbian Krajina was ghost territory. It is not often that one sees the Vatican operating behind the scenes; but operate it does. Regarding which, notice that former FM Granic reports that "then mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, had to wait 25 minutes for the meeting to end." So there was Chirac, later to be President of France, waiting like a good schoolboy for his own instructional session with the pope. What I wonder was his "main task"? Or was he just in the neighborhood, and dropped by to say 'hi pope'? And what other leaders were waiting there that day? Or the next? -- Jared Israel
Weisgerber can be heard on a Vatican radio audio file
of interviews with Catholic bishops who visited
Israel and the disputed territories in January 2008. It is posted at
The key point here is that Weisgerber is not what he and these other Catholic officials claim to be: an impartial observer concerned only with human rights. (For a member of the Catholic hierarchy, which has been proven guilty of systematic child abuse and the cover-up of child abuse, such that, as a lawyer friend of mine put it, if any other organization did the same thing their assets would be seized, their leaders would be jailed, and they would be closed down - for a member of this hierarchy to talk about human rights is beyond mind boggling.) Weisgerber is not impartial; he is under the discipline of the Vatican, which has been attacking Israel since it was created and promoting the PLO since at least as far back as 1982, when the pope rescued Arafat from the humiliation of his flight from Lebanon by publicly inviting this 'leader of the oppressed' to visit him in the Vatican. About which, see #14. Among Weisgerber's 'evidence' of Israeli oppression of
Arabs: the high unemployment rate
in Ramallah. To which one might reply: if the Arab
economy was not organized around destroying Israel,
perhaps Jews and Arabs alike could benefit
economically (and culturally) from the normal interactions that the PLO and
Hamas are dedicated to preventing, with the peace-loving Vatican's great
help. Archived for educational purposes at Sabbah is a big supporter of the Palestinian Authority (as is the pope),
whose "Amended Basic Law," can be read at So Sabbah objects to state religions? See what I mean about members of the Catholic hierarchy having zero concern for facts, just as long as they attack Israel? And then of course there is the small matter that Sabbah is a functionary of the vatican, a state that in itself constitutes the dictatorial leadership of a religion. (Regarding the Palestinian Authority Basic Law, thanks to GI for his/her analysis at the Camera website.)
[Excerpt from Antisemitism and Modernity starts here] It took centuries of haranguing by the clergy before the ordinary Christian acquired the hatred of the Jews that later seems to be almost inborn. Two Christian teachers were especially influential in this respect, St Chrysostom and St Augustine. The diatribes of St Chrysostom against the Jews were rivaled only by Hitler. He accused the Jews of cannibalism and every other crime of deicide. He declared also that the Jews worshipped demons in their synagogues. [From which comes the expression “synagogue of Satan” – Samantha Criscione] St Augustine, the great theorist, laid down the lines for the treatment of the Jews in future centuries. They were to be regarded as Cain, because of their deicide, but, like Cain, they were to be exempt from extermination, as their misery testified to the judgment of God upon them, and so they acted as ‘witnesses’ to the truth of Christianity. This attitude of partial toleration was a kind of protection to the Jews even during the worst persecutions of later years [as opposed, for example, to the Albigensians, who – writes Maccoby at p. 37 – “were exterminated to the last man, woman and child.” – SC].” -- Hyam Maccoby, Antisemitism and Modernity, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, p. 18. [Excerpt from Antisemitism and Modernity ends here] Augustine does this in
particular in his work Contra Faustum Manichaeum, (Against Faustus, the
Manichean), Book XII, Ch. 9-13. In this text, Augustine argues that the Jews should be suffered to exist in misery as living proof of the validity of Christian doctrine: “That is, It is not as you say, not by bodily death shall the ungodly race of carnal Jews perish. For whoever destroys them in this way shall suffer sevenfold vengeance, that is, shall bring upon himself the sevenfold penalty under which the Jews lie for the crucifixion of Christ. So to the end of the seven days of time, the continued preservation of the Jews will be a proof to believing Christians of the subjection merited by those who, in the pride of their kingdom, put the Lord to death.” -- Samantha Criscione
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Why did about 300,000 people - mostly Serbs, but also tens of
thousands of Yugoslav loyalist Albanians, Slavic Muslims, Roma, and most of the
small Jewish population - flee Kosovo after NATO arrived? See "Driven From Kosovo!" at
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