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by Douglas Murray
• September 29, 2015 at 5:00 am
- Shortly after the
IRA had tried to wipe out the British cabinet and assassinate Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984, Jeremy Corbyn invited the Sinn
Fein/IRA leaders to Parliament.
- Jeremy Corbyn did
not spend his time bolstering the crucial moderate forces in Northern
Ireland. Instead he pushed forward the most violent and
anti-democratic forces in the conflict.
- Most sinisterly,
he has been a constant champion of Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami, two
men who were convicted of the 1994 bomb attacks against Jewish and
Israeli targets in London.
- Rather than admit
to having spent decades palling up to the worst anti-Semites and
Israel-haters worldwide, Corbyn is trying to claim that he has in fact
been involved -- deep undercover, away from the eyes of any
respectable negotiator -- in a "peace process."
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In 2009, Jeremy Corbyn (left) said: "It will be
my pleasure and my honour to host an event in Parliament where our
friends from Hezbollah will be speaking. I also invited friends from
Hamas to come and speak as well." Pictured in the middle is
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Pictured at right is Hamas leader
Ismail Haniyeh.
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Whatever political angle you come from, the election of Jeremy Corbyn
as Labour Party leader is a seismic change in British politics. Political
wonks in the UK have become fond of comparing him with Michael Foot, who
led Labour to a disastrous election defeat in 1983, and whose party
manifesto for that election was famously described as the "longest
suicide note in history." The election of Corbyn is principally of
interest at home and abroad not because of his far-left wing views on
economics, nationalization and the rest, but for the fact that it
mainstreams current bigotry and racism.
by Susan Warner
• September 29, 2015 at 4:00 am
- "Nostre
Aetate," released in 1965, called for friendship and dialogue
between Catholics and Jews, instead of the centuries-long repudiation
of Jews by Catholics; St Joseph's University became the first to
respond by establishing the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations.
Is Pope Francis picking up where Pope Paul VI left off?
- Can Pope Francis'
hopes and dreams for reconciliation of Catholics and Jews override
some unfortunate but pressing realities, such the Church's desire to
placate the Palestinians?
- If Pope Francis
is serious about a "journey of friendship" with the Jewish
people, perhaps he would not be so quick to approve President Obama's
Iran nuclear deal in the name of a hoped-for peace that will most
certainly ignite an unhoped-for war between Iran and Israel.
- By assisting the
UN in establishing the "sustainable development platform,"
the Pope is offering his permission to the UN -- one of the most
anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bodies on the face of the earth -- to usurp
power on behalf of a shared utopian agenda. Sustainable development
notwithstanding, the UN should be encouraged to clean up its own house
before it tries to clean up the world.
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"Ecclesia et Synagoga": The original 13th
century sculptures from the Strasbourg Cathedral (left), and a recent
example from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia (right) that Pope
Francis blessed this week.
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A lot of water as passed under the bridge between Catholics and Jews
in the past 1800 years or so. Most of it has been polluted by the evils of
anti-Semitism perpetrated by the Catholic Church against the Jews of
Europe, starting with the earliest published Christian writings by the
early ante-Nicene Church Fathers, such as Tertullian. His document
"Judeos Adversos" has stood for centuries as one of the key
church position papers against the Jews.
During those seemingly endless centuries, the Catholic Church
continuously demonized the Jews, stripped them of their livelihoods, and
frequently their lives.
In the Catholic mindset, the Covenant that God made with the Jews had
been replaced by the Church as God's new "chosen people."[1] God
no longer had any use for the Jews, and the Church vowed never to let them
forget it.
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