This headline in today’s Jerusalem Post drew my attention:
Vatican official backs right of return
My initial reaction? Finally, the Vatican is going to return all of the Jewish artifacts they stole from us!
Unfortunately, this is not the right of return to which the Vatican official is referring.
A Vatican official said Wednesday that Palestinian refugees have the right to return to their homeland, and said he hoped Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would address the issue.
Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the Vatican’s office for migrants, said an agreement to restart peace talks, reached Tuesday in Annapolis, Maryland, was encouraging and that he hoped by this time next year concrete measures would be under way.
“It is my hope that all the parts of the problem are taken into consideration such as that of the Palestinian refugees, who like all other refugees, have the right to return to their homeland,” Martino said.
What I want to know is, given that the Vatican support a palestinian state as a homeland for the so-called palestinian people, why don’t they support these “refugees” returning to that state if it is established in the future?
Also, why aren’t the Vatican talking of the right of return of Jewish refugees from Arab lands?
But the real question is who the hell do the Vatican think they are?
Oh, I know. G-d’s representatives on Earth. Which makes their conduct towards the Jews and Israel even more perplexing .. and abhorrent.
