Mahmoud Abbas and the Church

Pope Francis exchanged gifts with Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, during their meeting at the Vatican on Saturday.

Pool photo by Alberto Pizzoli

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO:

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis praised Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, as an “angel of peace” during a meeting at the Vatican on Saturday. The Vatican also expressed hope that Israel and the Palestinians would resume talks “to find a just and lasting solution to the conflict” that has roiled the Middle East for decades.

The encounter came days after the Vatican announced that it would sign a treaty recognizing the “state of Palestine,” tacitly endorsing the Palestinians’ bid for sovereignty.

Mr. Abbas is in Rome for the canonization on Sunday of two Arab nuns who lived in Ottoman-ruled Palestine in the 19th century.

Mr. Abbas also met with the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and “great satisfaction was expressed” over the bilateral accord reached on Wednesday, which concerns “various essential aspects of the life and the activity of the Catholic Church” in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, the Vatican said in a statement.

The treaty will be signed “in the near future,” the Vatican statement said...Continue reading... 

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Posted by Tracy W January 21, 2015

  PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS JEWS TRAPPED INSIDE BUS - Palestinians celebrate with cartoons and the hashtag "Je suis couteau," I am knife - How Western governments and the Church do NOT regard Palestinians killing Jews as terror, and treat terrorist Mahmoud Abbas with reverence. 

 Give them a state?

A Palestinian man stabbed 17 people on a Tel Aviv bus, seriously wounding 4 of them.

Israeli police described it as a terror attack, while it was praised by Palestinians

Supporters are now taking to Twitter with 'I am knife' hashtag 

The tweets are often accompanied by a graphic showing a bloody knife

'Moderate' Fatah has officially honored a previous Muslim killer of 8 Israelis.

Western leaders don't regard the murder of Jews by Palestinians as terror

Terrorist Mahmoud Abbas, who routinely eulogizes terrorists who kill Jews, was a guest of honor at the recent Paris march against terror in France, while the Israeli PM was told to stay home because he made the French "uncomfortable".

The Vatican has always strongly sided with the Palestinians.  Recently Pope Francis justified Muslim terror against those who offend Islam. 

The Orwellian morality of our times.  Perpetrators of terror are treated as heroes, while the Jewish victims are called "Nazis".

This attack on bus passengers is the latest in a series of attacks to hit Israel in recent months, in which babies and rabbis praying at a synagogue have been singled out for murder...Read here.