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ROMANS ATTACKING ISRAEL AGAIN

Exclusive: Joseph Farah declares pope 'has soiled his hands' in siding with terrorists

Pope Francis announced an agreement had been reached with the barbaric leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization recognizing “Palestine,” as defined by pre-1967 Israeli borders, as a sovereign state.

Given the checkered history of Rome and the Catholic Church with the Jewish state, this is a hideous act rewarding decades of terrorist attacks by the PLO, vicious anti-Semitism by the Palestinian Authority and anti-Christian persecution that has cause tens of thousands of Palestinian Arabs to flee from the Muslim-dominated PA.

It’s a barbarous act of political and historical tone deafness by the pope that puts the beleaguered Jewish state, the only reliable refuge for outnumbered, forgotten and abandoned Middle East Christians, deeper into the cross-hairs of international busybodies.

Does Francis not understand history?

Some 2,000 years ago, Rome conquered the Jewish state of Israel and occupied it. It crucified the Jewish Messiah called Jesus there. It oversaw the looting and destruction of the Jewish Temple, many of whose artifacts remain in the Vatican to this day. It slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews – men, woman and children, as they fled during the siege of Jerusalem. It conducted a scorched-earth policy against the rest of Israel, killing Jews, enslaving them and dispersing them throughout the empire. It renamed the state of Israel “Palestine” so the world would forget the Jewish state ever existed.

That’s the back story of plunder and violence and theft of identity perpetrated by the Romans of the first century.

And that’s the back story that the Roman Catholic pope has just inherited as a de facto historical successor to Pontius Pilate and Nero and Titus.

Palestine has never been a nation-state in the history of the world. It was an invention of the Romans, a fanciful allusion to the land of the Philistines – long-before extinct by the time of Rome’s genocide against the Jews.

Imagine with that historical backdrop, a Roman pope who speaks of love, peace and rainbows has become one of the first leaders in the modern world to recognize terrorist “Palestine” as a lawful, sovereign state at the expense, once again, of the Jews.

The Vatican’s deal was brokered with Mahmoud Abbas, the organizer of the Munich Olympics terrorist attack on Israeli athletes, a man who wrote his doctoral thesis denying the Holocaust – and still denies the Jewish death toll to this day.

But it gets worse.

The Vatican’s statement calls for the new Palestinian state to have its capital in Jerusalem – Israel’s capital since the time of King David. It calls for the Palestinian state, run by the same people who have overseen the destruction of Jewish religious and historical sites in its own territories, to be responsible for holy sites in Jerusalem and elsewhere.

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This action by the Vatican hardly serves to facilitate serious negotiations on a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, an autonomous entity Israel unilaterally established in its goodwill efforts of never-ending talks with the unrepentant terrorist leadership of the Palestinian Arabs.

What the Vatican did here was declare its unilateral and unconditional support of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization founded by Yasser Arafat.

There’s no other way to interpret this except as a one-sided hostile action against Israel.

This pope has far exceeded his spiritual authority as leader of the Roman Catholic Church here and directly entered a worldly political dispute that is, frankly, none of his business. Worse yet, he has entered that dispute on the wrong side – the one refuses to forsake violence and terrorism and Jew hatred, which is taught like a religion in every Palestinian school and preached on Palestinian TV nightly.

Pope Francis has soiled his hands and stained his reputation with the signing of this misbegotten document.

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My comments: Pope Francis, in siding with the PA and Against Israel, shows himself to be AGAINST GOD and God's PROMISE to Israel. This together with his other anti-Christ remarks makes him and anti-Christ, and perhaps the False Prophet of Revelation 13.