Michael Sabbah, the Palestinian anti-Israel Catholic priest tells Israel that there should be no Jewish state. Because it’s discrimination.
”If there’s a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against,” Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah told reporters at the annual press conference he holds in Jerusalem before Christmas. In his address, which he read in Arabic and English, Sabbah said Israel should abandon its Jewish character in favor of a ”political, normal state for Christians, Muslims and Jews.”
Sabbah denounced Israel’s demand to be recognized as a Jewish state by the Palestinians and said “God made this land for all three of us, so a suitable state is one who can adapt itself to the vocation of this land.
Okay, if you’re gonna quote God, I’m going to have to point out that when Israel was created, there were no Christians, and no Muslims. That would mean God meant Israel for, gee, who’s left? Oh, that’s right—Jews. In fact, if Sabbah was in the least bit honest, once again, since he’s quoting God, he’d take a look at his Bible and find the parts of it that direct the Jews to Israel and grant Israel to the Jews (in perpetuity). It’s in his version of the Bible, too, not just ours.
Now, if we want to take God out of the equation (and I don’t, as I’m not an atheist, but some of you are, so let’s go do that), you can simply point out the lie that Israel discriminates against people by religion. It is the Muslims in the Middle East who are doing that, and have done it for about 14 centuries now. Shall we mention Hebron? Joseph’s Tomb? The desecration of the graves of Joshua and Caleb this very week?
Or take a look at how many Jews could visit the Temple Mount from 1948 until June of 1967. Zero would be the accurate number. In fact, Jews can’t worship on the Temple Mount now, even though Muslims can. So the only religion being discriminated against in Israel would be—Judaism. Fancy that.
Just in case that wasn’t enough, Sabbah also manages (as usual) to blame Israel for the entire Palestinian problem.
”This land cannot be exclusive for anyone,” he said, adding that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had unleashed “forces of evil” across the Middle East and that it was Israel’s obligation, as to end the warring. “The one who will decide is Israel. If Israel decides for peace, there will be peace… Until now, there has been no peace, simply because there has been no willingness to make it.”
Sure. Because it’s the Israelis who are lobbing rockets at themselves, not Palestinian terrorists.
You know, I think the state of Israel should nationalize all the land that’s claimed by the Catholic church and give Sabbah something to really complain about.
Technically this can be considered correct as it is up to Israel to stop supporting and enabling the terrorists (such as setting up the PA or having antiIsrael organizations like “Shalom Achshav”). In fact just as alcoholism is a disease, terrorists suffer from a mental disease that can only be “cured” by tough love and not by enabling the behavior that must be “cured”. Unfortunately, this is a fatal disease that can often only be cured by “giving” the terrorist what he claims he wants (death) rather than by surrendering to him and attempting to bribe him (such as with the state of Israel).
Oh. Was the good patriarch referring to Saudi Arabia, perhaps?
I assume, then, that he intends to speak out against all other nations with state religions – like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and, oh I don’t know – perhaps Italy.
I’d tell him “we’ll consider it when you decide to make Vatican City a secular state”.
Just one thing wrong with Tom Clancy’s books is the peace deal Jack Ryan brokers. Jerusalem becomes an overseas province of Vatican City, with Swiss Guards providing security.
And guys like Sabbah in charge, presumably.
Never mind what the Orthodox would say about the allocation … and how the Umma would take the sacred sites being under dhimmi domination! If Italy becomes Islamicized, no doubt we will learn that the Prophet also visited the Vatican in his travels, and so it is an Islamic holy site.
The Muslims are driving out all the religious minorities from their countries in the Middle East. This includes the Palestinian Authority. Some 75-80 peercent of Palestinian Arab Christians now live in Israel, and towns that used to have Christian majorities, like Bethlehem, now have Muslim ones. Pretty soon the only state in the Middle East where Christians will be able to live without fear of persecution will be the Jewish one, which is truly rich irony. Patriarch Sabbah Al-Kadhaab (the Liar) had better think about that reality, instead of sucking up to the persecuters of Christians.