George Galloway is a Scot, a Catholic and a Socialist. He has had a chequered political history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway . He recently won a by-election in Rochdale, England, after the death of the incumbent MP. Rochdale is a working class area in Northern England with a large Muslim population and the plight of thr Palestinians was central to his platform. It's doubtful that he will win when the General Election comes around. Due to his opposition to the war on Iraq, there was an attempt at a hit job on him when he was accused by the US of some shady dealings . His appearance at the US Senate hearing is worth watching: The guests on Judge Napolino's Judging Freedom channel are among the best source of information about the wars in Ukraine and Palestine. Some of them are former CIA officers, some have had military experience and one is a former British diplomat who served in the Middle East. It's best to watch the discussions under thr "Live" tab on the channel where there are a few discussions daily on weekdays.
What really grinds my gears are the accusations of 'anti-semitism' against those who choose to oppose the genocide being perpetrated against the people living in Gaza, the latter being entirely semitic. The one thing that can be said for certain is that the Palestinian conflict is not racial. It is primarily a conflict between the tribes of Israel, the Arabs being the descendents of Ismael and all being semitic. The foundation of the conflict is between Talmudic Jews, who regard all non-Jews as less than human (supported by many usefully idiotic American Evangelical Protestants who can't see that Israel passed their mantle to the New Israel of Christ's Church when they crucified Him) and Muslims who regard all non-Muslims as less than human. It's hard to see any good coming of this.
No nation can match Albion for perfidy...and they're still at it. Still, I acknowledge Turkey as a (very-from no lack of desire or effort) distant second; which clarifies my case-they won't hesitate for a moment to exploit Gaza as their pretext to invade Greece (deprived of her defenses which are sent to the Ukraine) and the rest of Southern Europe, in turn.
Indeed, the Turks also have a genocide under their belt and as far as I know the Kurds played no small part in that crime against humanity. Erdogan is a slippery character. He seems to be losing his grip but I wouldn't hold out much hope for anything better replacing him either from his own side or from the more secularist opposition. I watched a video recently about an attempt by Jewish settlers to get hold of Armenian property in Jerusalem. I don't know how accurate the claims were but it seems that some wealthy settler did a deal with a cleric to buy the property behind the backs of the Armenian people in Jerusalem. I don't know whether the cleric had the right to sell the property but the Armenians were sitting in and it appeared that they were being harassed by the settler with the aid of the Israeli police. Strange that a priest would have sole authority to sell a property especially in such an important location. Seems the cleric has taken off. I don't know whether he took the money with him. The cynic in me suspects that there may be some Epstein type security assets operating throughout the Middle East. Then again, maybe the property deal was above board but a few of the faithful were disgruntled. It's hard to tell fact from fiction these days. The world seems to be upside down. People I would have regarded as trustworthy in the past are turning out to be two faced at best and bordering on evil at worst. Now, I find myself nodding my head in agreement with people I would have been vehemently opposed to in the past - people I would still be vehemently opposed to on many important issues. I think the Church should be speaking out more forcefully against the genocide instead of letting the hard left be the voice of the voiceless Cardinal Dolan has given an interview to America magazine following a visit to Israel. No doubt he was well fed there. He seems to have bought the IDF lies about the roasted babies (I'm not sure whether he repeated the babies in the oven or the beheaded babies lie) and the raped women. He did mention having met a Palestinian woman who still had the key to her house in Jerusalem that was taken by settlers decades ago. Rightly, he called for the release of the hostages but he made no mention of the thousands of Palestinians, including children, unjustly detained for years by the Israelis. I don't think it's a stretch to say that they, too, are hostages I know that New York is an AIPAC city controlled by the Democrats and the Cardinal needs to be diplomatic lest they have him cancelled or the Israelis use any kind of criticism as an excuse to clamp down on the Church in Jerusalem, but I would expect better from a Prince of the Church.
[QUOTE="Whatever, post: 447817, member: 7989" The US political class will fight to the last American soldier for the $ because that underpins their hegemony. European political leaders are just vassals, with the possible exception of Orban, but even Orban has a breaking point.[/QUOTE] I agree with the bold comment.
The Catholic Church has surrendered to the Jewish narrative that it is 'anti-semitic' and now bends over backwards to avoid offending them. Traditionally, the Church never thought of Jews as a race, but as upholders of a belief system and identity, as outlined in the Talmud, primarily founded on the rejection of Christ. The Church should be calling out the 'Israel' entity as the imposter that it is. The Church became the New Israel at the moment of Christ's Resurrection and that Israel of the Jews simultaneously ceased to be, as their own Talmud admits, describing how the Temple sacrifice ceased to work for forty years before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70AD. Zionism is a fraud, a mask for imperial colonialism and thieving land plantation, no different to what the perfidious English did to our own country. There are some Jews, supported by certain useful idiots among the American Evangelical Protestants, who aspire to build a Third Temple. They can build as many temples as they want, but they will be unable to restore the sacrifice-it has been Replaced.
I found this reference: Here is the Talmud Quote I found: Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white; nor did the westernmost light shine; and the doors of the Hekal would open by themselves, until R. Johanan b. Zakkai rebuked them, saying: Hekal, Hekal, why wilt thou be the alarmer thyself? 5 I know about thee that thou wilt be destroyed, for Zechariah ben Ido has already prophesied concerning thee:6 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.7 As you can see, it alludes to the doors opening during the last 40 years, but not sure if this was a regular thing, or if it only happened towards the time closer to the destruction. I guess one clue would be when Rabbi Ben Zakkai became a leader of the temple-- supposedly he lived 120 years, and the last 40 was as a leader. There are some discrepencies as to when he died-- some sources show 90ad and others 80ad-- but forty years prior would be either 40ad or 50ad-- so that seems to lead to a date closer to the actual temple destruction, and more matching with Tacitus and Josephus...
The main problem I see for the Church's mission to evangelise the whole world is that those Evangelicals are seen as the face and voice of Christianity in parts of the world that have yet to properly hear the Gospel. That's a third to half of humanity. We all know that there are Catholics on the ground helping the helpless in conflict zones where people in the West with megaphones and no faith wouldn't set foot in for fear of their lives. Perhaps those suffering Catholics have asked the hierarchy not to speak out lest their immediate troubles are intensified. (I think that something along those lines happened in Europe during WW11). All I know is that the Church appears to be sitting on the fence when the very stones should be crying "Stop". All people of all religions and none possess the dignity unique to humans. Nobody on earth should be treated like worthless animals, herded around and disposed of at the will of the powerful. We have a self proclaimed devout Catholic supplying arms to the perpetrators of genocide and washing his hands by saying he asked them to use smaller bombs. And not a word from his Bishop? When I see what's happening in Gaza at the hands of the Israelis and Americans, I'm reminded of Pearse's words at the grave of O'Donovan Rossa: "The fools. The fools. They left us our Fenian dead". Where's that empire now? May God forgive us all for our failure to forgive each other.
I agree with what you say here, but it's gone way beyond any political human realm, country wise or Church wise. It's boiling down right in front of our eyes - good guys vs bad guys. People of goodwill vs people bent on destruction. Speak your peace, but keep your peace; a difficult thing to master but worth the effort. I was thinking about Mother Angelica the other day, how much she suffered but she was never ever afraid to shout the truth. But the stress of that, I think, took its toll. Speak your peace, in truth and charity, but keep your peace of heart while doing so. Who knows what hearts may be touched in seeing that peace.....
The best way to effectively denounce what is occurring in Gaza is to throw out the just war label in relation to the persecution and destruction of Catholicism in Ukraine at the hands of the Russian state. I believe this will encourage many Catholics to raise their voice without fear of embarking on a left-wing political project. Here in Brazil, we had a radical left party (PCO) openly declaring support for Hamas, and it also expressed support for the special operation in Ukraine starting in 2022. This is a type of attitude that only reinforces the specter that many Christian commandments are at risk of being filtered and instrumentalized by political groups. https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/republica/pco-apoio-hamas-ataques-israel-fim-de-semana/ https://obastidor.com.br/politica/partido-da-causa-operaria-apoia-invasao-da-russia-na-ucrania-2784
You seem to have found an answer to your question. Here are the avowed enemies of Christ, unwittingly affirming His Godhead.
Link won't come up on my ancient iPad (no way am I buying another until it blows up), but I have a hunch it's not good.
During an interview on Easter Sunday, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington delivered a harsh assessment of President Joe Biden's dedication to Catholicism. Gregory, the first black American cardinal, appeared on the CBS News morning show "Face the Nation" and spoke to actions by Biden that seem to cast doubt on how serious the president is about his religious duties. The cardinal did not go so far as to doubt Biden's sincerity, but he did place the president in the same category as too many Catholics in today's world. Biden often has been called a "devout Catholic" but also has been widely criticized for actions that seem to go very much against Catholic teachings. The president has been a longtime member of the church in D.C., and during his CBS appearance, the cardinal was asked if Biden's expression of his faith sets a good example for other Catholics. But Gregory was not sanguine that the president was holding very true to the faith. He added that it is a problem among many Catholics. "I would say that he's very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts," the cardinal said. "There is a phrase that we have used in the past, a ‘cafeteria Catholic’ -- you choose that which is attractive and dismiss that which is challenging," he said. The cardinal was quick to cite Biden's support of abortion as a prime example. "I would say that there are things -- especially in terms of the life issues -- there are things that he chooses to ignore. Or he uses the current situation as a political pawn, rather than saying, 'Look, my church believes this,'" he said, apparently alluding to the president's stance on the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the ruling that nationalized abortion, Roe v Wade. Biden took particular criticism over the weekend for declaring Easter Sunday, one of Christianity's holiest days, as a "Day of Transgender Visibility." He suffered a major backlash for seeming to be pushing his radical political agenda at the expense of his supposed Catholic beliefs. But the president's dedication to his religion has suffered other criticism as well. In 2021, for instance, Joseph F. Naumann, the archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, blasted Biden for his views on abortion. "The president should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic, and acknowledge that his view on abortion is contrary to Catholic moral teaching," the archbishop said in an interview. "It would be a more honest approach from him to say he disagreed with his church on this important issue and that he was acting contrary to church teaching." "He’s declaring that he’s Catholic, and is going to force people to support abortion through their tax dollars. The bishops need to correct him, as the president is acting contrary to the Catholic faith," Naumann added. (this is a portion of my link )
Biden’s sign of the cross at a pro choice meeting is sacrilegious.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bi...g-sign-cross-abortion-rally-disgusting-insult
