Thanks for sharing this Marianna. I agree with you 100%. I have made many trips to the Holy Land. I would like to make another visit with a focus on lifting up Palestine as a Christian brother. Perhaps I could learn from you how best to do this is the current shocking circumstances. Dr Garry Willinge
Thank you for this writing Cara! Your voice, along with Caitlan Johnstone and many others finally coming forward may end the Catastrophe for Palestinians.
I do what I can, and living my 81st Year, the Internet is my main connection with the outside World. Home alone on Christmas Eve, I wrote this to the Pope. I have 7 normal working Vatican email addresses to someone in Vatican Societies in the chance one recipient has access to the Pope. The last 2 of the 7 are to the Pope's Apostolic Nuncio/Ambassador to CanaDa and France.
Dear Francis, my Brother in Christ,
Israel’s Amichai Chikli of The Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, wrote to you December 21 to remind you of the Vatican’s Holocaust history and stating, “Jesus was born, lived, and died as a Jew.”
He criticized you for attending a display depicting Jesus as a Palestinian Arab with a keffiyeh and accusing you of trivializing the term “genocide” in a way that borders on Holocaust denial, after you called for an investigation into Israel’s response to Hamas after the October 7 massacre. Israel wants the US West MSM to cover October 7 as the Beginning of Jewish-Palestinian History, ignoring all that came before it.
The Minister's tweet moved me to reply with this tweet;
"Yes, Jesus the Christ was 100% Jewish, and speaking to Jews before Christians came to be, said 'You hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draws close to me with their mouth, and honours me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.'
Obviously, those words are not addressed to those who don't believe in Christ Jesus the Jew, but to those who think they do.
'West Bank mosque set alight, vandalized in apparent settler assault' Muslim house of worship in town of Marda burned overnight, spray-painted with ‘revenge’ graffiti; police and Shin bet say they opened investigations, though no arrests yet - and most likely there will be no arrests.
Israeli settlers in the illegally OCCUPIED West Bank are the latest incarnation of Hitler's Brown Shirts, born again in Jewish settlers terrorizing Palestinians to leave with Israel's current efforts at ethnic cleansing since an Old Testament Jewish Religious Establishment became the base of Netanyahu's government in January 2023.
To cement your Legacy, I strongly urge you to go to Gaza in person, before it is too late. To identify with the oppressed People of Gaza in accordance with the Mission of Christ Jesus the Jew, who says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, this Jubilee Year.
Very beautiful message! The heart and reason call each of us to reflection, to action. The means at our disposal are unfortunately out of proportion to those at the disposal of the forces of evil and, "the moral crossroads" have been jostled and crossed for a long time....however, as they say, it is never too late to do good!....
You are correct in your assessment of the finality of the Gaza atrocity. This particular genocide marks the end stages of humanity's descent into extinction. BUT, you are also a guide for us who hope to finish our time with inchoate love and hope.
America is lost. The creaky machinations of the democratic party gave us genocide joe and now the apathy and disinterest of the voting public gives us the orange Jesus who will be even worse for Palestine and the middle east. I fear I will be dead before all the things going wrong at home and around the world will be moving in a more positive direction. I can't believe we let Israel take it this far... How do America's leaders and lobbyists sleep at night?
Another touching story from your time in the West Bank, Cara. There are so many articles on independent websites such as the Floutist, regarding the Holocaust in Palestine by the murderous Israeli army and Air Force, but by and large, most people are not concerned about the situation in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, and now Lebanon and Syria and anywhere else the Zionist monsters decide to bomb. And questioning it is called "anti-semitism" right? The Zionists and their brethren have molded Gentile minds with refined propaganda making Jewish people
the eternal "victim" ever since they were thrown out of Egypt in ancient time.
With enough Jewish money given to politicians plus media influence slanted favorably toward Israel, plus the $23 billion dollars the US has given them for weapons, ammo, etc, the extermination continues. The West has become so decadent in supplying them with military supplies for continuing the systematic murdering of a whole nation of people. Utterly disgusting!
I appreciate your hard work Cara, but the hard truth is, people in general do not particularly care if Palestinians are being mass murdered. Turning your eyes from the conflict and ceasing to care is much much easier than caring and doing something, so tuning out is what most will do. To me, this conflict has revealed the deficiencies of humanity as well as democracy and self-governance.
Thanks for sharing this Marianna. I agree with you 100%. I have made many trips to the Holy Land. I would like to make another visit with a focus on lifting up Palestine as a Christian brother. Perhaps I could learn from you how best to do this is the current shocking circumstances. Dr Garry Willinge
Thank you for this writing Cara! Your voice, along with Caitlan Johnstone and many others finally coming forward may end the Catastrophe for Palestinians.
I do what I can, and living my 81st Year, the Internet is my main connection with the outside World. Home alone on Christmas Eve, I wrote this to the Pope. I have 7 normal working Vatican email addresses to someone in Vatican Societies in the chance one recipient has access to the Pope. The last 2 of the 7 are to the Pope's Apostolic Nuncio/Ambassador to CanaDa and France.
Dear Francis, my Brother in Christ,
Israel’s Amichai Chikli of The Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, wrote to you December 21 to remind you of the Vatican’s Holocaust history and stating, “Jesus was born, lived, and died as a Jew.”
He criticized you for attending a display depicting Jesus as a Palestinian Arab with a keffiyeh and accusing you of trivializing the term “genocide” in a way that borders on Holocaust denial, after you called for an investigation into Israel’s response to Hamas after the October 7 massacre. Israel wants the US West MSM to cover October 7 as the Beginning of Jewish-Palestinian History, ignoring all that came before it.
The Minister's tweet moved me to reply with this tweet;
"Yes, Jesus the Christ was 100% Jewish, and speaking to Jews before Christians came to be, said 'You hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draws close to me with their mouth, and honours me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.'
Obviously, those words are not addressed to those who don't believe in Christ Jesus the Jew, but to those who think they do.
'West Bank mosque set alight, vandalized in apparent settler assault' Muslim house of worship in town of Marda burned overnight, spray-painted with ‘revenge’ graffiti; police and Shin bet say they opened investigations, though no arrests yet - and most likely there will be no arrests.
Israeli settlers in the illegally OCCUPIED West Bank are the latest incarnation of Hitler's Brown Shirts, born again in Jewish settlers terrorizing Palestinians to leave with Israel's current efforts at ethnic cleansing since an Old Testament Jewish Religious Establishment became the base of Netanyahu's government in January 2023.
https://timesofisrael.com/west-bank-mosque-set-alight-vandalized-in-apparent-settler-assault"
To cement your Legacy, I strongly urge you to go to Gaza in person, before it is too late. To identify with the oppressed People of Gaza in accordance with the Mission of Christ Jesus the Jew, who says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, this Jubilee Year.
With Peace and Blessing,
Ray Joseph Cormier
Hull, Quebec, CanaDa
https://rayjc.com/2013/09/01/signs-of-the-times/
Very beautiful message! The heart and reason call each of us to reflection, to action. The means at our disposal are unfortunately out of proportion to those at the disposal of the forces of evil and, "the moral crossroads" have been jostled and crossed for a long time....however, as they say, it is never too late to do good!....
You are correct in your assessment of the finality of the Gaza atrocity. This particular genocide marks the end stages of humanity's descent into extinction. BUT, you are also a guide for us who hope to finish our time with inchoate love and hope.
America is lost. The creaky machinations of the democratic party gave us genocide joe and now the apathy and disinterest of the voting public gives us the orange Jesus who will be even worse for Palestine and the middle east. I fear I will be dead before all the things going wrong at home and around the world will be moving in a more positive direction. I can't believe we let Israel take it this far... How do America's leaders and lobbyists sleep at night?
Another touching story from your time in the West Bank, Cara. There are so many articles on independent websites such as the Floutist, regarding the Holocaust in Palestine by the murderous Israeli army and Air Force, but by and large, most people are not concerned about the situation in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, and now Lebanon and Syria and anywhere else the Zionist monsters decide to bomb. And questioning it is called "anti-semitism" right? The Zionists and their brethren have molded Gentile minds with refined propaganda making Jewish people
the eternal "victim" ever since they were thrown out of Egypt in ancient time.
With enough Jewish money given to politicians plus media influence slanted favorably toward Israel, plus the $23 billion dollars the US has given them for weapons, ammo, etc, the extermination continues. The West has become so decadent in supplying them with military supplies for continuing the systematic murdering of a whole nation of people. Utterly disgusting!
I appreciate your hard work Cara, but the hard truth is, people in general do not particularly care if Palestinians are being mass murdered. Turning your eyes from the conflict and ceasing to care is much much easier than caring and doing something, so tuning out is what most will do. To me, this conflict has revealed the deficiencies of humanity as well as democracy and self-governance.