BBC: Vatican rejects Israeli complaint

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4726833.stm

Quote by: BBC: Vatican rejects Israeli complaint. "The Vatican has rejected Israel's criticism that Pope Benedict XVI failed to condemn Palestinian militant attacks against Israel in his recent remarks. A Vatican statement said it could not condemn every Palestinian strike because Israel's own response had sometimes violated international law. Israel had complained that the Pope on Sunday left the country off a list of those recently hit by terror attacks. The Pope deplored the attacks in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and Britain.

Did I think the day would come when a pope would stand up to the bully tactics of Israel. Now we can all hope that other leaders will show the same backbone. The 'victim' state-let has cried wolf too often. I cannot stop thinking of my last posting...

Now if Israel does not recognize this as a mild statement, I would like to tell them that this statement should have said "Israel's own response had 'FREQUENTLY' violated International Law." Further from the BBC...

Quote by: BBC: The latest statement from the Vatican said "It's not always possible to immediately follow every attack against Israel with a public statement of condemnation." It said this was mainly because "the attacks against Israel sometimes were followed by immediate Israel reactions not always compatible with the rules of international law". "It would thus be impossible to condemn the first (Palestinian attacks) and let the second (Israeli retaliation) pass in silence". The statement added that "the Holy See cannot take lessons or instructions from any other authority on the tone and content of its statements".

Now they really must have pissed the Vatican off big time to get this response. This is far from the diplomatic language that the Vatican is famous for. There's NO misunderstanding the intent of this. O boy, but there is a lot more behind this than is written down. I dare that Israel bully to try again.

I would not try to interpret exact what the Vatican meant by " immediate Israel reactions not always compatible with the rules of international law". However as a Christan leader I'm sure he might have being thinking of Christ's words about 'turn the other cheek ' rather than the jewish 'eye for an eye' and soon we are all blind. And worst, it was one eye for one eye but not today. Now it's ten Palestinian eyes for one, as unfortunately for Palestiniens 'all men were 'NOT' created equal". The BBC goes on to say...

Quote by: BBC Earlier this week, it criticised the Pope for failing to mention a 12 July suicide bombing in Netanya that killed five Israelis. The foreign ministry said the pontiff's speech would be interpreted as "granting legitimacy to... terrorist attacks against Jews".

This cannot be right. Is their foreign ministry saying that not "terrorist attacks against jews" ....are now "granted legitimacy". Now I've seen recently where their UK ambassador - could not speak english, had a daughter in prison for smuggling drugs for him/her, was involved in other crooked deals, - so maybe this statement should not be taken on face value. No where did the Vatican say anything about "granting legitimacy to... terrorist attacks against Jews". The only one "granting legitimacy to... terrorist attacks against Jews" is the ministry itself.

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