Pope Francis to Call for Sovereign, Independent Palestinian State

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/pope-francis-call-sovereign-independent-palestinian-state-1401103130

Cardinal Parolin said that the Vatican recognizes Israelis’ rights to live in security inside recognized borders and added that it also recognizes “the Palestinian people’s right to have a homeland, sovereign and independent, the right to move around freely, the right to live in dignity…”

In other words, Parolin is saying that the Vatican condemns the statelessness of the Palestinians, their lack of sovereignty or independence, their inability to circulate freely because of the Israeli pass system, and their inability to live in dignity, given the decades-long Israeli occupation. You put all that together, and you are describing an Apartheid system.

Meanwhile Issa Kassissiyeh, the Palestine envoy to the Vatican, explains that President Mahmoud Abbas when he meets with Francis at Bethlehem on Sunday will express Palestinians’ anxieties about Israeli actions in Jerusalem that harm Christian Palestinians there, as well as about the conditions for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

[MADem]

1. Well, this is quite a development. Here's a Pope actually acting like a Head of State.

I have to say, I'm surprised.

He puts himself in as much danger as if he'd advocated priesthood for women by articulating that POV.

[DeSwiss]

2. Oy!

- Now that's more like it.

K&R

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Stop the killing.......

[vlakitti]

3. What a great thing to do!

If he continues this way, he'll move a lot of this country to the left.

We need a lot more of fresh thinking from our 70 and 80 year olds.