Israel – Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said the Vatican “doesn’t have to teach us about interpreting the Bible”, in a comment to remarks by a archbishop who said that the theme of the Promised Land “cannot be used as a basis to justify the return of the Jews to Israel and the expatriation of the Palestinians.”
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“For Christians, one can no longer talk of the land promised to the Jewish people,” Archbishop Cyrille Salim Bustros, the Lebanese-born head of the Greek Melkite Church in the United States declared, in a press conference after a Vatican Middle East Synod.
“The priest doesn’t have to teach us about interpreting the Bible. We don’t teach them how to interpret the New Testament,” Rabbi Metzger told EJP in Berlin where he is attending a conference of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC).
He however expressed the hope that this won’t create a diplomatic incident with the Vatican.
On Sunday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon slammed the Vatican synod statement hugely critical of Israel as “political attacks on Israel.”
“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. “The Synod was hijacked by a anti-Israel majority.”
Bishops and patriarchs from the Middle East held a two week long meeting at the Vatican chaired by Pope Benedict XVI on the plight of Christians in the region.
In their statement, they called on the international community “to end the occupation of Arab lands.”
Absolutely stunning. Of all places in the Middle East, Israel is pretty much the only one where Christians can practice their faith in the open without fear of molestation or persecution. Celebrating mass in Saudi Arabia is a criminal offense, and in Lebanon, Christians live in fear of Hezbollah– Syria is a police state that tolerates Christians but keeps an eye on them.
they can say this because they have no fear of retaliation from israel when the lebanese moslems started to slaughter lebanese christians the only country to defend them was israel and for that the church also critizied them
Chazal say:
Hachonef Lerosho, Sofo Nofel Beyodov.
These “Israeli chief Rabbis” were looking for approval from this Avi Avos Hatuma, by giving him gifts (pictured in this article photo), in hopes to satisfy their need for approval from the Avi Avos Hatuma.
Once Yidden show, how low they can stoop, (as the Merglim had said) “Vehayinu B’Enehem Kachagovim” – Chazal Explain that this is only because and caused by the Yiden’s own inferiority complex, of them (first seeking the Goyim approval, and) “looking down” at themselves, “Vechen Hayinu B’Enehem” – meaning that because the Yidden’s inferiority complex, and BECAUSE the had assumed that they are only like Grasshoppers in the eyes of the Giants, indeed this had caused for the Giants to “look down” at them, in that way.
it continues to be a nays that the vatican doesn’t come running every time the yishmaelim yemach sh’mom make their idiotic claim about there not being a bais hamikdosh. When they say that, they are in turn saying the xstans made everything up as well!!