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Saturday's Haaretz carried this explosive report...
Vatican meeting demands Israel end occupation
Bishops also condemn all forms of terrorism and anti-Semitism in statement.
Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned by the pope to Rome have demanded that Israel accept U.N. resolutions calling for an end to its occupation of Arab lands.
In a final statement Saturday, the bishops also told Israel it shouldn't use the Bible to justify injustices against the Palestinians.
The bishops issued the statement at the close of their two-week meeting, called by Pope Benedict XVI to discuss the plight of Christians in the Middle East amid a major exodus of the faithful from the birthplace of Christianity.
On Sunday, Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the US during Shrub's administration, unleashed this tirade...
Deputy FM: Anti-Israel bishops have hijacked the Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI and Middle East bishops demand that Israel accept U.N. resolutions calling for an end to its occupation of Arab lands.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Sunday that a meeting of Middle East bishops was hijacked by enemies of Israel, after the gathering at the Vatican largely blamed the state for conflict in the region.
In a communiqué at the end of their two-week meeting, the bishops demanded that Israel accept United Nations resolutions calling for an end to its occupation of Arab lands...
"We express our disappointment that this important synod has become a forum for political attacks on Israel in the best history of Arab propaganda," Ayalon said in a statement Sunday.
"The synod was hijacked by an anti-Israel majority," he said.
Damn it, Danny...! Why didn't you call the whole lot of 'em anti-semites already and be done with it...? Danny must be slacking...! He must know in his charcoal heart that the Pope is an anti-semite... After all, the Pope is a German, and, his hands are not exactly clean, in regards to the holocaust. *gah*
But I digress...
As the AP reported...
...The Mideast meeting at the Vatican involved about 185 participants, including nine patriarchs of the Mideast's ancient Christian churches and representatives from 13 other Christian communities. A rabbi and two Muslim clerics were invited to the meeting as well. [...]
"Peace is possible. Peace is urgent," Benedict said in his homily. "Peace is also the best remedy to avoid the emigration from the Middle East."
The pope also called freedom of religion "one of the fundamental human rights, which each state should always respect" and said the issue should be the subject of dialogue with Muslims. [...]
The Palestinians welcomed the synod's conclusions in a statement released by Saeb Erekat, a senior aide to the Palestinian leadership. "The international community must uphold its moral and legal responsibility to put a speedy end to the illegal Israel occupation," Erekat said.
Another smear recently floated by the Israelis...
Jimmy Carter "refused to meet" soldier's family
Radio Israel has reported that former US President Jimmy Carter rejected a request for a meeting with the family of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza. [...]
Sergeant Shalit's father, Noam, told Radio Israel that the ex-President said "he does not have time for this". His son's situation, he added, is "still the same - there's nothing new". Mr. Shalit is pessimistic, with Israeli and international efforts to free his son carrying on "but to no avail".
Hmmm... Why then did Haaretz recently report this...
Carter: Hamas eager to renew talks for Shalit's release
The Elders hold meetings with Hamas officials, discuss stalled negotiations for Shalit's release and Middle East peace talks.
Former American President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that Hamas was interested in renewing negotiations for a prisoner swap deal in exchange for captive Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.
"They let us know... they are very eager to proceed," Carter told reporters in East Jerusalem several days after meeting Hamas officials in Syria.
Sounds like Carter wanted nothing to do with the Shalits', to me...!
One would think the paranoia needs to stop at some point...
Foreign Ministry drawing up options for Iran bomb threat
Policy options considered for "day after" Iran gains nukes; official: Teheran with bomb would be disaster, but we must be prepared for it.
...Revelations on Sunday of a Foreign Ministry team working on these contingency plans was the first admission that the government is giving serious thought to adjusting to a reality where Israel is no longer, according to foreign sources, the sole nuclear power in the region. [...]
In Israel, the government official said, the feeling is very much that Iran with a bomb would indeed be a disaster, with no positive side to it.
Nonetheless it is a disaster which Israel, even while trying to avert, must prepare for, the official said.
The Foreign and Defense ministries regularly draw up contingency plans for any number of unwanted scenarios.
The Foreign Ministry, for example, also has a team also preparing options to present to the septet, security cabinet and government if the Palestinian Authority carries out its threats to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines.
*gah*
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