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Israel is rebuking Pope Francis for committing a “genocide blood libel against the Jewish state” and reminding the pontiff of the Vatican’s silence during the Nazi Holocaust amid an escalating diplomatic row between the Holy See and Israel.
In a strongly worded letter to the pontiff dated December 18, Amichai Chikli, minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, reprimands Francis for his part in a recent display portraying Jesus as a Palestinian Arab and schools the pope on the Jewishness of Jesus.
“There is no other way to understand the decision to present his image in a cradle, wrapped in a keffiyeh,” Chikli stresses. “Had this been a one-time matter, I would not have written. However, just a few weeks before this strange and false homage, in a more severe expression, you echoed the new blood libel, insinuating that the State of Israel ‘might be’ committing genocide in Gaza.
“It is a well-known fact that Jesus was born to a Jewish mother, lived as a Jew, and died as a Jew,” Chikli writes in his three-page missive. He cites Matthew’s gospel, reminding Francis of the “well-known fact” that “Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea.”
Lessons in Jewish and Roman History
Chikli quotes other biblical texts reiterating to Francis the significance of “Bethlehem” and “Judah” in Jewish history. He notes that Bethlehem is both the city of Rachel’s death and David’s birth, explaining that Rachel is Israel’s matriach and David is Israel’s archetypal king.
“It is also a well-known fact that the term ‘Jew’ originates from Judah, the fourth son of Leah, from whom the Tribe of Judah descended,” the minister points out.
Chikli proceeds to give the pope a lesson in Roman history and the empire’s attempts “to eradicate the connection between the Jews and Judah; one of the most prominent of these was Emperor Hadrian.” He records details of Titus’s destruction of the Second Temple and the Bar Kokhba Revolt, which resulted in the massacre of 580,000 Jews.
“Hadrian was not satisfied with the physical destruction of the Jewish settlement; he anticipated the future, to the day when the Jews would seek to return to Judea. Therefore, he renamed the province of Judea ‘Syria Palestina,’ after the Philistines, the arch-enemy of Israel,” he writes, explaining the origin of the name “Palestine.”
In a dig at Francis, Chikli also notes that the pope can verify the evidence for himself by driving just “13 minutes by car from St. Peter’s Basilica” and examining the Arch of Titus with its depiction of Israel’s conquest and humiliation by the Romans.
Papal Rewriting of History
Referring to the pope’s recent comments calling for an investigation into the alleged genocide in Gaza, reported by The Stream, the minister contends: “This is a desperate and disgusting attempt to rewrite history.”
“As a nation that lost six million of its sons and daughters in the Holocaust, we are especially sensitive to the trivialization of the term ‘genocide’ — a trivialization that is dangerously close to Holocaust denial,” he notes.
Chikli details how the term “genocide” can be aptly applied to Nazi Germany, which “for the first time in the history of nations, set as its ultimate goal the complete annihilation of an unarmed people with whom it had no conflict, and most of whom were not even living in its territory.
“Let us recall that between the Jews, who made up less than 1% of the population of Germany in the 1930s, and the Germans, there had been no prior violent, territorial, religious, or political conflict,” he notes.Recalling the “sickening strategy” of the “Final Solution,” the minister cites as one example the Treblinka death camp, where 845,000 Jews from Poland, including children and elderly people, were murdered in gas chambers and then dumped into execution pits, concluding: “This is what genocide looks like.”
Vatican Silent During the Holocaust
“The Vatican’s silence during those dark days of the Shoah is still deafening,” he writes, asking Francis to “clarify your stand regarding the genocide blood libel against the Jewish state,” a “new blood libel” recently promoted against Israel by the human rights organization Amnesty.
Chikli concludes by drawing Francis’s attention to the the 60th anniversary of the Nostra Aetate Declaration from the Second Vatican Council, which will be celebrated in 2025. The declaration marked a “significant milestone in the relationship between the Jewish people and Christianity,” he maintains, noting that Francis is known to be “a close friend of the Jewish people.”
The Vatican has maintained a diplomatic silence on the minister’s letter, with neither Vatican News nor Avvenire, the Italian bishops’ media, reporting on it.
In response, the pope has doubled down on Israel since Chikli’s letter, twice in public remarks last weekend accusing the Jewish state of massacring children in Gaza.
Francis Falsely Claims Cardinal Banned from Gaza
On Saturday, in his annual Christmas greetings to the Roman curia, Francis claimed that the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa “was not allowed into Gaza, as had been promised.”
“Yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to tell you this because it touches my heart,” the pope told members of the Vatican bureaucracy.
Citing the monk Dorotheus of Gaza, Francis added: “Yes, Gaza, the very place that is presently synonymous with death and destruction, is a quite ancient city, where monasteries and outstanding saints and teachers flourished in the first centuries of Christianity.”
However, a day later Vatican News confirmed that Pizzaballa had visited Gaza and presided at Mass as well as administered the sacrament of confirmation to several young people. The pope’s media did not refer to the Israeli ban on the cardinal’s visit to Gaza.
Instead, it acknowledged that “this is the second time that Cardinal Pizzaballa has managed to enter Gaza and visit the community led by the parish priest Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, following his visit on 16 May last.
“To ensure maximum security on the route, news of the visit was only given after arrival in the community,” Vatican News explained, hinting at the possibility that the pontiff may have been misinformed about Pizzaballa’s visit to Gaza.
The Holy See mouthpiece also confirmed that the Latin Patriarch “will make his solemn entry into Bethlehem, where he will be welcomed by another suffering community and where he will celebrate Christmas Eve Mass in St. Catherine’s Church,” debunking rumors that Israel was restricting Pizzaballa’s visits to his Catholic flock in Judea and Samaria or the Gaza strip.
Undaunted, in his Angelus address at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Francis attacked Israel again, stating: “And with sorrow I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty; of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals… So much cruelty!”
Severing Jesus from His Jewish Roots
Commentators previously slammed the de-Judaization of Jesus under the Francis pontificate.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), a holocaust denier and terrorism sponsor whom Francis warmly welcomed to the Vatican on December 12 as The Stream reported, has redefined Jesus as “a Palestinian messenger” of hope in his 2023 Christmas address. Palestinian officials have also described Jesus as “the first Palestinian martyr,” and as a Palestinian jihadist.
“In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat activist and politician, posted on social media on Christmas 2023.
“Rewriting history that Jesus wasn’t a Jewish resident of the Jewish country of Judea but rather a Palestinian man who was persecuted by Jews is gaining ground around the world, including in the Vatican,” international relations expert Dr. Yvette Alt Miller wrote in response to the Vatican featuring Jesus on a keffiyeh.
“Jesus was a Jew. If he were alive today, the world’s elites would be clamoring for him to be thrown out of Judea as a settler,” wrote British columnist Melanie Phillips in 2015, after the Vatican agreed to recognize Palestine as a state. “And Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, would be amongst them.”
Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral. This article was cross-posted with the author’s permission from The Stream.
Maybe they were using the keffiyeh as a diaper.
The satanic catholic/islamic connection exists…
In fact… the satanic catechism teaches they both worship the same fake god allah…
allah is a fake moon god… once known as Baal…
Thus… the satanic catholic fake church teaches to worship fake gods…
Francis is an imposter, planted to destroy the church.
the pope doesnt represent christianity and is not christian . its not called babylon the harlot for no reason . anyone who has read the two babylons and the bible knows it . he is a fraud .
You may consider doing some more studying yourself… specifically Revelation 17…
The satanic catholic fake church is not the Harlot…
For one thing… catholicism didn’t exist when the Book of Revelation was written…
Rev 7… “And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.”
Rev 10… “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.”
This is talking about the empires… not literal mountains…
1) Assyria> already passed at the time
2) Egypt> already passed at the time
3) Babylonia (Nebuchadnezzar) (Head of gold)
4) Medo-Persia (Two arms and one chest of silver)
5) Greece (Belly and thighs of Brass)
The 5 that have fallen…
6) Rome (Legs of iron) <<< The one that is…
7) The Revived Roman Empire (Feet of iron and clay) (Also note: that the ten toes are alluded to.)
Also note: it says… the other is not yet come
More proof the Pope is a Phony and the Vatican belongs to Satan
Pope Francis won’t be the first pope to end up burning in hell and he probably won’t be the last one.
Isn’t this pope the anti Christ?
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What would one expect from the worst Pope since Pope Pius XII, erstwhile known as Hitler’s Pope.
The papal coup that brought us Red Francis is a permanent stain on the Cardinals who voted for him.
Fortunately Red Francis is old and will not last out the decade, and maybe the Catholic Church can return to it’s mission of spreading Christianity instead of Marxism.
Intrepid… you little muslim…
What part of the vatican using a keffiyeh makes it marxist?
Most would interpret it as being satanic islamic… except you… you little allah worshiper…
Hey Scumsrent, I knew you couldn’t keep away from an article that had the Pope in it. Pavlov’s dog much?
Guess what. Good news. The I.F.I.A contacted me directly and apparently you have won their most coveted award.
Yes, the Institute For Illiteracy in America has proclaimed you as the most illiterate person in America. As part of your award they will pay for English As A Second Language. They will also pay for your Strait Jacket. and psychiatric treatments. They found you basically because of your endless blabbering about satanic Islam, satanic Catholics and Lutherans, and your endless blather about the Beema-Bop-a-Loooony Seat. Call them as soon as you can at 1-8003825633
A Doctor from the Institute will be contacting you very soon.
Yes… anyone insulting satanic islam and it’s fake god allah bothers you greatly…
You little muslim…
So is that your newest “lame city” attempt at insult for the new year. Try harder Mr. Illiterate.
Hey, did you call I.F.I.A. Operators are waiting to take your call. Don’t miss out on the free strait jacket.
BTW, had a great time Christmas eve at Church. Played two of the three services, did the usual stuff. Played the Christmas carols, said the Nicene Creed, the Lord’s prayer, and the best was a jazz version “I’ll be Home For Christmas” a favorite of the WWII vets when it was written.
All of your “satanaity” wrapped up in one Christmas package, right?
You couldn’t find the “Jesus Christ” in Christmas with two hands and a flashlight, Mr. Illiterate. What was that IQ of yours anyway? 85?, 86? Have the IFIA Institute check that for you as well when you check in.
Hey dumbass…..I didn’t mention “keffiyeh” Mr. Illiterate. You must have seen that word in a satanic dream.
Not only are you an illiterate, you are effete little narcissistic shmuck who has visions of Muslim garb.
Put the pieces together Intrepid… try to follow along… you little allah worshiping muslim…
The article says…
“Amichai Chikli, minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, reprimands Francis for his part in a recent display portraying Jesus as a Palestinian Arab.”
Why is that Intrepid?
Naturally you’re blinded by your worshiping of the fake god allah of satanic islam… and stepping forward to defend the satanic catholic fake church…
And everyone can easily see how you’re trying to portray the Poop as a communist and distract from the Poop being a muslim like you.
Get this Intrepid… your allah is a fake moon god !!!
No idea what you are talking about. And I don’t care.
Obviously you have the time and inclination to come up with your batshit conclusions based on your own interpretations whatever it is you are thinking. Which are, as usual, based on nothing, so you can never be wrong. How convenient
I guess it makes you feel better because of your massive inferiority complex.
So be it. I will simply keep doing what I do, because I don’t care a whit what you think.
Please keep up the Muslim accusations. They are a hoot and it gives me a laugh.
By the way I am currently watching Led Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains the Same.” Great band. Too bad you will never get them. Because you are an idiot.
Yes… you have no idea…
Because you’re allah worshiping idiot…
What? we all know the pope is a marxist.
The Hitler’s Pope trope is just that, and anti-Catholic propaganda. Rabbi David Dalin exposes that in “The Myth of Hitler’s Pope”. I’m sorry that the government of Israel is repeating that libel. There is enough to criticize in Pope Francis’ actions without stooping that low.
I would think that the chief Rabbi of Rome during WWII could be considered the ultimate expert on the subject. Not only did Israel Zolli receive baptism into the Church in 1945, but he took the baptismal name of Eugenio in honor of Pius XII. He writes of it in his autobiography “Before The Dawn”.
There are always self hating Jews and Nazi/Holocaust deniers. Anyone can write anything in an autobiography.
The pope should be reminded that the New Testament was written by Jews, to Jews, about a Jew. And His apostles, who were all Jews. Seems that Christians owe the Jews a debt of gratitude.
Let’s see… the “New Testament was written by Jews, to Jews about a Jew”…
So then… that makes all Christians… “Jews”… and… all these Christian Jews should owe a debt of gratitude to themselves…
Got it…
You don’t think very well… do ya?
No, it does not. Gentiles who believe that Jesus is the Messiah, according to your errant texts, are considered grafted into Israel making them a part of the Nation of Israel but not Jews. In fact there are numerous errors in the New Testament that should give all those believing him to be the Messiah cause for thought. Two recommended texts are Let’s Get Biblical Volumes 1 & 2.
Before issuing such righteous edicts about others, please understand your own supposedly holy writ.
Truth is according to your texts Hannah Katz is correct!
Wrong…
If your belief is that the New Testament is all about Jews… written for only Jews… and about a Jew…
Then… according to your beliefs… all the rest of us don’t count. <<< Period. Especially since it wasn't written for "Gentiles"…
You don't see how messed up your thinking is… do ya?
Q: How many times have you read your Jewish New Testament? Since it was written for you?
I am Jewish and the Messiah as represented in the New Testament fulfills ABSOLUTELY NONE of the requirements for being the Jewish Messiah through the lineage of King David.
Save your vitriol for someone else.
You’re flipping the subject… but ok… I’ll play along…
Evidence that Christ Jesus fulfills prophecy:
There are well over 300 Old Testament Messianic Prophesies fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
*Place Of His Birth*
O.T. Prophecy: Micah 5:2
N.T. Fulfillment: Matthew 2:1-6
*Of The Seed/House Of David*
O.T. Prophesy: II Samuel 7:12-14 & Jeremiah 33:14-15
N.T. Fulfillment: Luke 1:32 & Matthew 1:1
*Born Of A Virgin*
O.T. Prophesy: Isaiah 7:14
N.T. Fulfillment: Matthew 1:18-25
*Called out of Egypt*
O.T. Prophesy: Hosea 11:1
N.T. Fulfillment: Matthew 2:15
I think you get the idea…
These are just a few of the amazing prophecies fulfilled by Christ Jesus… not even mentioning the crucifixion.
It has been calculated that the odds of one person being able to fulfill the 300 prophesies is 84 then 123 zeros after that!
Well, you certainly don’t count, Mr. Illiterate. This comment comes pretty close to third grade text.
Yes Intrepid…
An allah worshiping muslim like you couldn’t comprehend the miracle of Christ Jesus fulfilling 300 prophecies and being the Messiah…
It’s getting about time for you to make your lifetime Hajj pilgrimage to satanic Mecca… aye?
Isn’t the Muslim accusation meme getting a little worn out? Or are you worried that it will apply to you.
After all you are the one obsessed with the Muslims each and everyday. Afraid you will be found out?
As I said “You couldn’t find the “Jesus Christ” in Christmas with two hands and a flashlight, Mr. Illiterate.”
You try so hard to convince everyone of your piety. When all you really are is another faux Christian grifter with an endless rap about satanic “poops”, Catholics and Lutherans and the grand world wide Muslim conspiracy to take over the world,,,,,,that no one is buying. Sucks, doesn’t it?
Not much difference between you and the faux televangelists from the 80’s and 90’s, except you ain’t on TV. They made the big bucks. You didn’t.
Maybe you need a new grift. The world wide Muslim conspiracy thingy isn’t working. Since you really don’t believe in anything how about taking up a TV Jihad grift? You could change your name to Slumsrent al Fascisti al DooDoo. Mohammed al Yabba Dabba Do might give you some shekels.
Say Hi to the psych Doc at I.F.I.A.
Yes it really bothers you…
Especially since your homosexual, satanic ELCA Lutheran fake church teaches how you worship the fake god allah… making you a muslim…
You can’t see how satanic islam is saturating everything… you refuse to see it… since you are a muslim…
Naturally you’re blinded by your (fill in the blank)
And everyone can easily see how (fill in the blank)
Especially since your (fill in the blank) making you a muslim…
Have you ever heard of projection? It’s a typical tactic of the left and the uneducated. You set up the premise and then you get to draw your own conclusion, so you always win in your own mind.
Premises:
1) Naturally you’re blinded by your
2) And everyone can easily see
3) Especially since your………making you a muslim…
These are your three most overused conclusion tactics.
“Naturally” by whose standards. Yours?
Every can see. Did you talk to everyone? How do you know everyone thinks like you do.
Especially since your …… making you a muslim? Well, you have no proof of anything beyond that of your broken imagination.
Besides this low traffic site are you published anywhere? My guess is no. Who would publish the ravings of an illiterate lunatic.
Before you draw your warped conclusions, based on your own untested premises, maybe you should find out if your theories actually hold water with anyone else. Maybe you could enlist your sock puppet friends who give you the occasional upvote.
Never mind that your premises never get tested by anyone else, so you are nothing more than a stupid childish uneducated nutcase with some end times books.
But please do go on. Your idiotic ravings are really all you have. Not impressed.
As a Christian, I agree wholeheartedly.
The Africans will have to save the Catholic Church. I hope they are given a chance
… Fair Point. …
disgraceful column. gomes should know better apparently Chikli’s reading on issue seems limited to the odious “Hitler willing executioners”. John Cornwall who wrote a scathing biography of Pius XII RETRACTED after becoming familiar with the facts. I guess Golda Meir and Einstein were also duped. Pius found that even mild remarks resulted in catastrophic outcomes such as the punitive raiding of. a carmelite convent where Edith Stein and her sister were taken to auschwitz and murdered. He helped thousands of jews his apartment at Castel d’ angelo had his private rooms converted to a obstetrical ward for pregnant jewish women with kitchens told to prepare kosher food. When Col. Kappler commandant of Rome ordered the surrender of a large amount of gold from the jews to avoid deportation Rabbi Zolli chief rabbi of city went to Pius to ask him to fill the short fall. He ordered vatican vaults to provide it and saved them. Zolli converted after war taking the baptismal name eugene to honor his friend. Most of what is claimed about the Church and Pius is pure unadulterated slander and part of a plan from the KGB described by Ian Pacepa from romanian secret services as an attempt to destroy his reputation. This started with the publication of a play The Deputy by an east german communist operative Hochhuth. Only thing he could have done was walk up to the gates of auschwitz himself. Any other actions would have resulted in catastrophic outcomes for more innocents.
Typical of the church that it values its traditional hatred of the Jews above the historic reality of Jesus’ life.
Does the Pope ever publicly criticize the 1400-year ongoing genocide of Jews and Christians by Muslims?
Or even the worldwide persecution of Christians in many parts of the Muslim world. Especially the egregious crime of rape in Pakistan ,Nigeria, and England( The Pakistani grooming gangs) Israel is the only non-Christain country in which the Christian community has grown in numbers this century.
I have yet to hear a Papal condemnation of Bashar al-Assad’s death pits – a true genocide.
This is the result of men attempting to make G-d Almighty in their own image.
This “pope” is a communist, pedophile protector, Islam crusader, and New World Order adherent; just about as diametrically oppositional to G-d Almighty as one can get while admonishing others. This necromancer with evil consistently remains silent to the blatant atrocities committed by Hamas and the other barbarian proxies for the Sharia-loving Iranian regime.
Why Catholics are not up in arms about this traitor to their G-d and Messiah is unfathomable to me and all of Catholicism will be judged by this deafening silence.
Poop Francis is an Islamofascist… not a communist.
Communism doesn’t have religion…
satanic islam is a totalitarian government cloaked in a religion…
Communism is a religion. Marx posited history beginning with primitive communism and ending with the final stage of communism. That is congruent with religion that starts with Eden and ends with Heaven. Marx used a religious-philosophical framework for his “scientific socialism,” which was less scientific in fact than what he called utopian socialism. Communism has true believers and excommunicates sinners. Communism unites the power of government and state. Communists say that religion promises pie in the sky when you die. Communism promises pie on earth when millions are killed that you cannot get because of counter revolutionaries. Religion has a devil. Communism has devil theories of history. Lenin was preserved, entombed, and displayed like a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. Communism crusades for converts and territory. Marx and Lenin were said to be never wrong at any age.
Communism has failed… but Islam, with its twist of religion is every bit communistic. A totalitarian government that is designed to control every part of what a human does.
Advocating the rubric; “What is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine”… communism failed to see that human nature will not keep those two balanced propositions in symmetry.
Like a female black widow spider consuming her mate, the latter part of the formula makes a meal of the former.
In contrast, political systems do well if they can persuade people to adhere to “What’s mine is mine and What’s thine is thine” maxims.
Spreading the wealth will go on for just a while… remember… “And he causeth all, both small and great, RICH AND POOR, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:”
(This is indicative that there will still be the rich and the poor… all participants in the One World Global Economic System.)
Only if a strong religious incentive is added does such an idealistic formula have any long-term chance. And we can be sure that they want it to work!
Even then success will be like mixing iron with clay. But communism excluded religion. This they recognize now! And that mistake was the final nail eventually clamping the lid on communism’s coffin while still in its infancy.
With that said Islamism, as the new world government meats this criteria hand over foot… and yet the masses are oblivious to it… that in itself should cause red flags to go up…
Frances was a left wing nut from the beginning, supporting marxist type causes in South America already when he ascended.
Communism is dead…
And right now Poop Francis is an Islamofascist… working towards spreading satanic islam…
This woke and morally-challenged pope is treasonous to his faith.
He is an affront to truth and humanity.