Three Blind Bishops

Will the Germans never change, they just want to justify their horrors and what the churches in particular let be done to the Jews. Their comments are untrue and unspeakable.

The comparison is that this Bishop said that in the afternoon they visited the GHETTO of Ramallah. Either he does not know what a Ghetto really is, or he was deliberately distorting facts. Ramallah is an open city sitting on a hilltop within view of Jerusalem and its people come and go as they please - no wall, gates or guards (unless they themselves set guards). The people of Ramallah are NOT starving and they have access to whatever resources THEIR leaders - not Israel - allow them. And no one comes weekly to cart them away to death camps. This bishop is very blind indeed.

B"H

1 Nissan 5767

The three monkeys

Remember the three monkeys? One don't see, one don't hear, one don't talk, ad to that a head monkey with the view s--t happens.

It is just like you have said Rabbi; if one has his mind made-up that is the way they are going to see it. Hear in Australia they believe that massacre of five hundred Palestinians in Jenin did take place. It is a sad and sorry state of affairs.

May I share en experience with you and the readers? A classic case of a "scholar" with the lights on upstairs but no-one is home.
Some time late last year, in a dialog between communities, I was listening to a "scholar" who was attacking Israel as if he was the head of Hammas information ministry.
Where did you get your facts? From newspapers and television? I asked.
Yes, was his reply.
I asked him, But didn't you said, just last week that hardly ten (10) precent of what we hear or see in the media is true?
Yes, was his reply, but in the case of the Palestinians it's all-true.

Anti Semitism is a virus forever changing, this time it has taken the shape of three monkey-bishops
What concerns me the most is that the media is the lifeline and the vessel that transfers this virus worldwide.

definitely gave me something to think about
B'ezras Hashem may it be for all of us, something to act upon as well

thank you

feivel

This article is another reminder not to put our trust in any man, but in The Almighty.

There is another way to handle these kinds of people: Hate the sin, not the sinner. The name calling should come from HaShem. Our words can either justify or condemn us. Let us not make the mistake of being like them, but let us emulate what HaShem taught us: To live peaceably with all men as much as posssible; to be merciful and kind, as The Almighty has shown mercy, kindness and forgiveness towards us, let us mirror those attributes so that others may see and be ashamed. It doesn't become us to hold a grudge. HaShem has a scorecard and His day for settlement is called Judgment Day. To be bitter and hateful is negative energy -- it takes the positive energy from us and it distorts our focus -- to look after one another and to complete our mission -- tikkun olam.

There is power in prayer and we should pray that HaShem show them the error of their ways and they see the need to confess and repent. They will have to give an accounting, but how much more wonderful in this world if we teach them what real love of neighbor means.

Shalom.

I read with deep feeling this loving commentary that has such wisdom embedded in it by Rabbi Yaakov Salomon. Surely it is about opening to what is seen and surely it is so very painfully true, that we are somehow conditioned by what we have been taught and so we are all of us, wearing blinders. But when it comes to the depth of sorrow that has been created in this world, how is it that some can walk through this completely unmoved and not gather the messages that are everywhere, strewn like flowers? Surely Yad Vashem is about the deepest heart break. What heart can bear this and not feel? I think we all need to think about this and about those things that block our consciousness because to put the E back into humane, is the task we are given. Tikkun Olam. The key lies in the opening of that door. Turn it and see! We need to listen better. We need to contemplate. Our minds are a temple. How is it that in the word contemplate itself is temple and how is it that we do not see when it comes to putting back the "kind" in mankind?

The comment you quoted from the first bishop....sounds like a simple itinerary...inthe morning we went to....in the evening we went to....
Where is the comparison?
The second comment...is one opinion....none of them as individuals or collectively....could disparage the fine work that has been done to reverse the past. Jews are respected among the Catholics I know.

I am not surprised by the comments of these bishops. The Catholic Church still teaches their followers hatred against the Jewish people.

They are the ones that began teaching hatred against the jews thousand of years ago. Religions that broke off the Catholic church continued to teach hatred against our people.

They claim to believe in Jesus, which was a jew, but they hate the people that he came from. They have claimed him as their own, and have used him and his name as an excuse to persecute our people throughout the centuries. I just don't know how they can love him, a jew, and hate his people.

I wonder what he would say to these people if he was here. Would he defend his brothers? Would he approve the hatred and persecution that the world has done to his own?

It is shameful that man of the cloth continue to campaign against our people. They will have to answer for what they have done and do to our people some day.

Nothing new under the sun (Erik Maria Remarq) What can you expect from a catholic priest? Remember all the wars...but now my concern is ONLY ISRAEL. The rest is baloney......

Once....I was born in Warsaw-as a catholic and I belived in G-o on this way, but quicly I d learnd that not all was O.K.Deep in my hart I feeld not happy.Now ,after meny years of learning ,I understend why ....You see,Warsaw is a very special place ... on one side this is a City of terible massa mord of Holly peaple -Jews ,but Warsaw is a City of great culture of this nation ! and when you are there you can feel it .
This bishops are not only blind ,but a very bed peaple too!
Shalom from Amsterdam

It's a first time I hear of these bishop fools. The comments are pathetic & despicable, but I am not surprised.

Shameless antisemites and racist Arians. Yet, what else are they saying? They seem to envision a single secular state including Israelis and Palestinians in one Palestine with 1967 Israel borders. Our questions to them must be: How could this possibly work? How could it not lead to an even more barbaric end for the Jews than what the German Third Reich did, if such a thing were possible? Even if we were all highly versed in logic and educated in history and the law, how do they propose to deal with the hatred (not a matter of logic or reason) in hearts fueled and fanned by the Koran against all Infidels, specifically Jews and Christians? Have they in mind perhaps the carving out of a region of Germany, dedicated to Jewish autonomy, where about six million Jews could find refuge as they are being pushed into the sea by the Arabs? Do these three visionaries know of some other place that would do that? Or would they put the Jews in gettos like Warsaw, waiting for decades for someone to accept and absorb them? Would Jews wait in German gettoes forever like the Palestinians of Ramalah, because their fellow Arabs have no room for them, because the Arab hatred of the Jews is greater than their love for their own kind? In the absence of a satisfactory answer from the three bishops, one must conclude that they wish the contunuation of Jewish extermination they feel was unfinished by Hitler's willing barbarians. Think about it. My mother survived, then I was born to remind them, to remind them that this time they cannot hide behind the cloak of a false and hypocritical civilization with decrepit moral turpitude at its helm; this time, they are transparent, these undeserving tribesmen of Kant, Goethe and Schiller, just to name some of their greats who are turning in their graves with eternal agony for what was done to the 6,000,001 Jews in Europe. This time it will not happen.

When will Jews realize that the Catholic Church was never there for them and never will be? ...for Jews to look for any kind of support, sympathy or understanding from the Catholic Church is like looking for those things from Ahmadinijad himself or Hamas or Hezbollah.

Yes, those may sound like bitter or harsh or even inflammatory words. Jews don't want to face the reality but the fact is, the words are true.

These three stooges (they certainly haven't the intellects to be anything more) epitomize the pathy of history the "church" has elected to take throughout history. Bigotry. Racism. Antisemitism. Well, about coming out changed...I visited Auschwitz in 1994 and I came out changed. I came out needing to be a Jew and nine years later, because of that and many other reasons, I became one, baruch ha-Shem. One of the reasons was that I was sickened by the hypocrisy of the "christian" facade. These vile "bishops" epitomize everything that is awful about the Jew-hating Roman "church". Beware the "warp and woof."

Rabbi Salomon, the brazen ignorance so evidenced in those quotes by the 3 Bishops should be source of shame to any person who believes, professes and seeks to follow, and believe in the same, ONE and only G-D of Love, the G-D of Jews and Christians; the G-D of Mercy, Compassion and Forgiveness WHOM those 3 profess to Worship Such thoughts, verbalized so boldly by those 3 Bishops, tragically reveals an unrelenting undercurrent of blatent, incredible, vincible ignorance of truth and a betrayal of a proclaimed belief and insight into the very concept of the G-D they profess to worship. Even more frightening is that they subconsciously cannot help but, seemingly, 'to pass along' their cold hard-heartedness to others whom the seek to influence. I don't perceive how they those "men of the cloth", could not, at the least, subtly, poison the minds of all of those people as they go about prosthelitizing and seeking others to emulate their beliefs and 'their' faith(?) in the very same G-D they profess to worship! Ignorance begets naught but more ignorance, exponentially. Has their Leader made effort to confront those 3 men to search their very own souls?; or is that expecting too much from one emerged from the very same contaminated soil as the 3? HOPE seems to be our sole constant in this world which so easily slips further in ignorance of the very ESSENCE of G-D'S MOST NOBLE CREATION. It is a challenge to each of us to dispel the darkness of ignorance with the LIGHT of TRUTH and we CANNOT be dependent on the 'urginga' of the likes of those who proclaim to be the sole owners of that TRUTH. It is we, individually, who must ceasingly seek the LIGHT of TRUTH, to dispel the darkness of evil ignorance and not depend solely upon the words and examples of others, such as these 3 pathetic, misguided Bishops.

The Holocaust happened. How could any one deny it?
Any one on earth who can say that Remalla is like the warsaw Ghetto have never seen the pictures Ive seen.
Every person on earth that denies the Holocaust should realy think about it could happen to them.
True Christians know the truth about Jews and will stand up for them. And whoever calls themself a Christian and hates Jews are not true Christians!

BEFORE THIS STORY I DID NOT KNOW OF THESE THREE FOOLS. THE THREE NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT THE NAZI'S HAD NO LOVE FOR CATHOLICS AND KILLED THEM ALMOST WITH AS MUCH DELIGHT AS THEY DID JEWS AND OTHERS...THE VATICAN NEEDS TO SET THEM STRAIGHT AND TAKE A STRONG POSITION AGAINST THE STUPITITY SPOKEN BY THEM AND OF COURSE REMIND THEM THAT THEIR SAVIOR WAS A JEW!!

This is the first I have heard of these bishops, and let me say it sounds deplorable---as Rabbi Saloman said, it sounds as though they had no intention of really "seeing" the true horrors that have been committed; this sounds political. Visit a Holocaust museum in Israel, now you're an expert on anti-Semitism and the Middle East conflict? I don't think so.

God bless.