All LPJ Catholic articles can be tweaked to attack Israel

 I've come accross this article from last year in the German section of the Latin Patriarchate Journal website which is about getting each diocese to sponsor building a home for a palestinian arab family. If german christians are up to another massive infusion of wealth for their coreligionists in east Jerusalem, then that's fine by me, even if its strange that there is no call to do this for any other christian community in the middle east. Indeed, one might think that christian money might be better spent on all those refugees in Syria and Lebanon, and those thrown out of Iraq in the last ten years. Not to mention the copts who unlike christians under Israeli rule, are having their churches damaged and knocked down all the time.

Als Minderheit zwischen den jüdischen und muslimischen Gemeinschaften, die viel zahlreicher sind, sehen sich die palästinensischen Christen mit den allgemeinen Schwierigkeiten der Bevölkerung konfrontiert – der Besatzung, der Kolonisation, der Einschränkung ihrer Bewegungsfreiheit – und der religiösen Intoleranz.
Laut katholischen Statistiken, leben von insgesamt 450.000 Einwohnern 10.000 Christen jeder Konfession in Ost-Jerusalem und ca. 50.000 in den besetzten palästinensischen Gebieten.
Im Rahmen des Besorgnis erregenden Exodus der Christen des Ostens emigrieren jedes Jahr etwa 600 davon aus Jerusalem, dem Westjordanland und dem Gaza-Streifen.

As a minority between the Jewish and Muslim communities, which are much more numerous, the Palestinian Christians are faced with the difficulties of the general population - the occupation, colonization, limiting their freedom of movement - and religious intolerance.

     According to Catholic statistics, out of a total of 450,000 people are 10,000 Christians of all confessions in East Jerusalem and 50,000 in the occupied Palestinian territories.

     As part of the alarming exodus of Christians of the East about 600 of them emigrate each year from Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The above laments that christians are a minority between jewish and muslim communities whilst identifying with the arabs in the Arab-Israel conflict. And there lies the answer to why the Catholic Church in Israel, is begging money to build arab settlements. It is just doing its bit in the conflict against Israel.

It is interesting how "- and religious intolerance" is tacked on at the end, after all the bits linked to the evil actions of jews to the poor palestinian arab victims. The LPJ knows full well that it isn't Israel which promotes religious intolerance, which is why it is slipped in at the end, leaving the impression that it is indeed the Jews who are oppressing christians, when the opposite is the case. "

Catholic Church welcomes Obama with attack on Israel

Finally we se an acknowledgment on the Franciscan website that christians might not be faring too well in arab lands. Rather than an article this comes as a short book review whereby the statistic of middle eastern christians reducing from 20% after WWI to 10% is explaine as, "in the 2000’s, for several reasons: a low birth rate, a division into several churches (Coptic, Maronite, Armenian, Melkite, Chaldean, Byzantine, Syriac) and especially Islamic fundamentalism."

I would be very surprised if this figure of 10% holds now after Iraq ethnically cleansing a million christians in the last ten years and with the decimation of christian communities elsewhere. The cleansing of christians are most notable after the Arab Spring/Winter in Egypt and Syria but this is also happening in all other arab and islamic countries. As islamist countries invoke sharia law, violence against christians increases, and their population shrinks. Simple isn't it, but you will search in vain for this simple equation on catholic websites.

Of more interest to catholic institutions however is to keep up their ungrateful yet continuous lambasting of Israel. Christians are under attack everywhere in the middle east by islamists whilst in Israel christians lead free and equal lives. This doesn't impress the leaders of catholics in Israel however. To welcome Obama, various catholic websites have been promoting the euphemistically named, "Justice and Peace commission (ACOHL) 'letter', a diatribe containing all the usual apartheid references such as the 'separation wall' (rather than what is mostly is, a security fence built to keep out waves of arab suicide bombers who killed over a thousand israelis).

We, the heads of the Catholic/Christian Churches in Jerusalem, welcome you wholeheartedly on your forthcoming visit to Israel and Palestine. On this occasion we would like to draw your attention to some major problems that deeply affect the Christian presence in these countries.
In this year, the Palestinian people are living for 46 years under Israeli military occupation. The plight of the Palestinian Christians is the same as that of the Palestinian People as a whole, and as a consequence everything that affects the Palestinian people also affects the Christians.
In the occupied Palestinian territories, among the numerous violations of international law by the Israeli authorities we mention only a few:  illegal Israeli settlements, a permit regime which restricts severely access to the Holy places for Muslims and Christians alike, expropriation of privately owned Palestinian land for settlement expansion and the construction of the separation barrier (like in the present case of the valley Cremisan), etc.

It is fanciful to expect that the truly decent new pope will have any effect whatsoever on the legions of jew hating catholic clerics who use every opportunity to attack Israel. I've said it before that the tragedy of christians is their leaders. Whilst muslims are killing and ethnically cleansing their bretheren everywhere in muslim lands, christian leaders continue to berate the one island of safety for christians in the middle east.
Of course this incitement against Israel never mentions the real oppression carried out against christians in palestinian arab controlled areas of Judea and Samaria and Gaza. Confiscations of land, attacks on people. Even the Franciscans finally admitted to an attack on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem recently, whilst trying to avoid reference to who actually did it (coming after an attack on Israel, without close reading of the article, the impression could have been gained that Israeli's may have been responsible). Such a low key response to the third mass attack on a catholic institution by palestinian arabs.

Whilst all these attacks on Israel by catholic leaders will in the long run have little effect on a tiny country that is nevertheless managing to forge an ever brighter future for itself amongst a sea of arab self-inflicted misery, christians will continue to pack their bags and leave arab countries for the West (ot christians in Israel though. They share fully in Israel's success).

Israel's love for America is reciprocated but arab indoctrination is making inroads

The latest Gallup poll shows that americans are becoming increasingly pro-Israel. Whereas last year 61% of americans professed to be pro-Israel, on the eve of Obama's visit this has risen to 64%. And this is in the face of a president who loses no opportunity to criticize Israel, who called into question Israel's very existence in the face of its so-called 'intransigence' recently, and where the mass media apart from Fox news  is solidly anti-Israel.

That americans know who their friends (and enemies) really are should not lead to complacency however. Just as in europe for the last 30 years, american universities are the battleground for the minds of future opinion formers in  the USA. Arab  countries are very active in sponsoring professorships at american universities, even whole departments. And the whole panoply of anti-Israel activities are in full swing.Those who care about Israel in the US should not be complacent as the present anti-Israelism seen in much of old europe began with the arab propaganda effort in the universities.

To some extent the fruits of the arab effort in the USA is already bearing its poisoned fruit. Those who are anti-Israel are increasingly being seen in those who have a university education, with 20% of those with a degree favoring the palestinian arabs over Israel.

So the more educated you are nowadays, the more indoctrinated you will be against the only state in the middle east which gives full equality to citizens no matter what their religion, the only country where arabs are free to lead their lives in equality and without fear of expressing themselves.

The only country in the middle east where a christian can plan his future in safety, where he can see his family grow without one or more daughters being kidnapped and forcibly converted to islam is the country that arab dictatorships are successfully portraying to educated americans as 'apartheid'.

What a world.