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Op-Ed:
Exclusive: A Seat for the Pope at King David’s Tomb
Published:
Friday, February 01, 2013 11:16 AM
Israel seems
to have sold Jerusalem to the Vatican.
Giulio
Meotti
The writer,
an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz
Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal
stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has
appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and
Commentary. He is at work on a book about the Vatican and Israel.
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An historic
agreement has been drafted between Israel and the Vatican. The Israeli
authorities have granted the Pope an official seat in the room where the Last
Supper is believed to have taken place, on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and where
David and Solomon, Jewish kings of Judea, are considered by some researchers,
to also be buried.
It is the
culmination of a long campaign by the Catholic Church to regain religious
stewardship over the place where Jesus is supposed to have broken bread and
drunk wine with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion.
This is an
enormous issue pushed through without any public debate.
According to
our sources, the agreement, which is expected to be ratified next June, gives
the Pope a “special authority” over the second floor of the building, so that
Christian pilgrims will be able to celebrate religious functions like Pope John
Paul did in 2000.
The
agreement constitutes Israel’s capitulation to the Vatican’s efforts to
“Christianize” the holy site, like when a Catholic convent was built in
Auschwitz.
The Catholic
Church has long wanted control over part of the area on Mt. Zion so as to turn
it into an international religious center for Catholics. The blueprint of the
agreement reads as follows: “The Vatican hands over this use of the Cenacle to
the Custody of the Holy Land which will keep the Cenacle open from 6 AM to 8 AM
for the celebration of the Holy Mass”.
In the long
term, the gesture will increase tensions between Jews and the large assets of
the Vatican. The Church has long been working to reduce Jewish rights in
Jerusalem and in the Old City. Now, after the Muslim Waqf authority expelled
the Christians from the Temple Mount and turned it into a mosque, it’s the turn
of the Vatican to lay its hands on the Jewish Jerusalem.
The Custody
of the Holy Land, the Franciscan order who, with Vatican approval, is in charge
of the holy sites, campaigns with the Arabs against Israel.
As far back
as May 2000, Yasser Arafat met Islamic and Christian clergymen at the
presidential offices in Ramallah to back Palestinian Arab sovereignty over
Jerusalem. Among the clergymen who attended the meeting, Diodoros I, patriarch
of the Greek Orthodox Church, Torkom II, patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox
Church, Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah and officials from the Custody of the
Holy Land.
“An official
meeting took place in Ramallah, Palestine, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the State of Palestine”. This is the official note of the Vatican press
office about the meeting between the Catholic officials and the PLO representatives
which took place this week.
The Vatican
is also asking that Israel hand over to the Vatican’s control dozens of sites,
19 in Judea and Samaria and 28 in Jerusalem. The Catholic Church want to
discuss some properties on Mount of Olives, Har Hazeitim, which is the very
history of the Jewish people. If you want to keep Jerusalem united, you have to
keep Har Hazeitim. The Vatican knows that.
In 1989
charges were made by the Catholic authorities that Israel desecrated the
Cenacle on Mount Zion. The charges, which appeared in the Italian bishops’
newspaper Avvenire, said that the Israelis put a memorial plaque on the roof of
the Cenacle. The plaque was put in place after the 1948 War of Independence in
memory of soldiers who fell in the Old City and whose burial place was unknown.
Every year, the bereaved families cleaned the plaque.
Why did the
Catholic authorities complain? Last year a similar charge was made from the
Catholic authorities that Israel wants to “Judaize” Mount Zion.
Should the
Vatican gain sovereignty over Mount of Zion, millions of Christian pilgrims
will flock to the site, and this will threaten the Israeli presence in the Old
City’s Jewish Quarter and Jewish access to the Western Wall.
The Vatican
wants the Jews out of the Old City and apparently Israel’s government is
agreeing with them. Turning the Cenacle into an active church is also a way of
desecrating the holiness of the site known as the Tomb of David.
The Vatican
and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation expressed a common position in the
Basic Agreement of 15 February 2000, intended to support the recognition of a
special statute for the City of Jerusalem. In the memorandum, signed by Vatican
officials and the PLO, an organization dedicated to the mass deportation of
Israel’s Jews, the Catholic Church wants Israel relinquishing sovereignty at
the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. The Vatican-PLO agreement’s preamble on
Jerusalem shows that the Vatican’s attitude on Israel’s capital is still stuck
in the unforgivable anti-Semitic rhetoric of the 1940s.
Until 1948,
Christian access to the Cenacle was severely limited, because it was used as a
mosque. Since then, the State of Israel is committed to protecting the holy
places of all religions, and guaranteeing the right of worship for all faiths.
But no
Israeli government must tolerate any policy of division, “shared control” or
“internationalization” that opens the door to a return to the Arab apartheid of
Jordanian occupation between 1948 and 1967.
Jerusalem is
not for sale. For thousands of years, the Cenacle area was almost always
totally closed off to Jews.
Sovereignty
over Mount Zion is politics, not only religion. The day after the Pope
celebrated a mass on Mt. Zion in 2000, he went to Yasser Arafat headquarter to
support the Palestinians’ right to return.
A few months
later, the Oslo war began. And Jews were sacrified again on the altar of
“peace”. It was their last supper.
This week,
the Vatican in its official documents began referring to the “State of Palestine”.
(For a site
on Christian attempts to gain leverage in Israel, click here)
Since 1993
the Vatican has officially controlled East Jerusalem through the signing of the
Oslo Accord which Cardinal Ratzinger created and which his loyal hofjuden
Shimon Peres signed in over at Washington. Shimon Peres was trained by the
Jesuits in Poland as highlighted in the auto-biography of Rabin. The truth of
the matter is that Jesuit trained King Juan Carlos commands Israel along with all
of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention his amazing powers over the
rest of the World including South America. King Juan Carlos has divine blood
and serves the Temporal Power of the Pope the Supreme Primate commanding the
World for the Jesuit Order who have controlled the Papacy since 1814.
-= The
Unhived Mind
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