Arutz Sheva - Israel National News: "Pope Refuses to Back Down; Porush: Vatican Returns to Hatred

14:18 Jul 31, '05 / 24 Tammuz 5765
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

The Vatican told critics of its failure to condemn terror against Israel it 'cannot take lessons' from others on what to say. MK Porush said the pope has returned to a policy of hatred of Jews.

Israel initially expressed anger that the new, Pope Benedict XVI, omitted Israel in his condemnation recent Arab terror in Egypt and Britain.

After the Vatican did not respond, except for issuing a statement that it could not react to every attack in Israel, the Foreign Ministry charged Pope Benedict with encouraging violence against Jews.

The Vatican responded, 'The Holy See [pope] cannot take lessons or instructions from any other authority on the tone and content of its own statements.' It added that the pope's predecessor, John Paul, often refused to condemn Arab terror against Israel because Israel's retaliations were 'not always compatible with international rights.'

Knesset Member Menachem Porush (United Torah Judaism-UTJ, and pictured above) said that the Pope's statements and lack of condemnation of Arab terrorism against Israel show that the reign of Pope John was a temporary lull in the 'hatred that characterized the Vatican throughout history, reaching its worst during the Second World War.

'The people of Israel always will remember the normal relations [the Vatican] established with the Third Reich,%u2026[its refusal] to denounce the Holocaust and its being careful not to mention the word 'Jew' in all of its officials declarations' on the mass murders by Nazis.

The Vatican's reasoning for not condemning terrorism against Israel because of retaliation actually 'claims that Jews can be murdered but cannot defend themselves as is accepted among other nations,' according to Porush."