Pope Francis with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican Saturday, May 16, 2015.
Israel blasts what it calls a ‘hasty’ step that damage peace prospects, while Palestinians laude move.

Ha’aretz

REUTERS – The Vatican signed its first treaty with the “State of Palestine” on Friday, calling for “courageous decisions” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a two-state solution.

The treaty concerned the Catholic Church’s activities in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli foreign ministry said it regretted the move, calling the signing of a treaty, which implies there is an official Palestinian state, “a hasty step (that) damages the prospects for advancing a peace agreement”.

But Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, said he hoped the agreement could be a “stimulus to bringing a definitive end to the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which continues to cause suffering for both parties”.

He said he hoped that a peace process directly negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians could resume and lead to a two-state solution. “This certainly requires courageous decisions, but it will also offer a major contribution to peace and stability in the region,” he said.

The Palestinian for their part lauded the move, with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki  saying he was “proud and honored” of the treaty. According to a statement released by the Palestinian Authority, the treaty reinforced the PA’s bond with the Holy See and “the special status of Palestine as the birthplace of Christianity and as the cradle of monolithic religions.”

The Palestinians further said that the agreement “embodies our shared values of freedom, dignity, tolerance, co-existence, and equality of all.  This comes at a time when extremism, barbaric violence, and ignorance threaten the social fabric and cultural identity of the region and indeed of human heritage.”

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2012 recognizing Palestine as an observer non-member state. This was welcomed at the time by the Vatican, which has the same observer non-member status at the United Nations.

Since then the Vatican has de facto recognized a “State of Palestine” and Pope Francis referred to it by that name when he visited the Holy Land last year.

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  1. GREGORY XIII. Declared that Jews “continue to plot horrible crimes” against Christians “with daily increasing audacity.”
    POPE CLEMENT VIII (1592-1605)
    “All people of the world suffer from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian Desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.”
    BENEDICT XV. Warned in 1920 against “the advent of a Universal Republic, which is longed for by all the worst elements of disorder.”
    This is resented by some Jews because of their active sponsorship and direction of such projects as the League of Nations and United Nations. – And in effect, all Popes who have issued editions of the Index Expurgatorius, in which Jewish genocidal and anti-Christian writings are condemned, according to the instructions of the Council of Trent.

  2. The New Bible Dictionary of the Protestants states:
    “A further implication is that Moses would have an Egyptian education, one of the best available in his day.” (The Protestant New Bible Dictionary 1988, p. 305)
    Definitely Pharaoh would never have spoken with Moses in the language of the slaves! After all Moses grew up in the house of Pharaoh from a baby and could never have spoken any language but what Pharaoh spoke! (Even if we want to agree that prophet Mûsâ (Moses) spoke Hebrew, then we must also agree that the communication with Pharaoh must have been in the Egyptian language). There is no Original Old Testament in the Egyptian Language that Moses spoke.
    Another important point: Is it not strange that “Moses” is claimed to have appeared in the year 4004 BC? Yet, the name of the book is claimed to be the Bible (Byblos) which is ‘derived through Latin from the Greek’ language! (New Bible Dictionary Second impression, 1988, p. 137)
    Therefore, there is no ORIGINAL Old Testament in the world! And the claim of the Jews to Palestine is also false!

  3. THE MUMMY OF MERNEPTAH
    One of the most intriguing predictions made by Qur’ân concerns a Pharaoh of Egypt, called Merneptah, who was the son of Rameses II. According to historical records, this king was drowned in pursuit of Moses in the Red Sea. When the Qur’ân was revealed, the only other mention of Pharaoh was in the Bible, the sole reference to his having drowned being in the Book of Bible Exodus; chapter 14 verse 28:
    ‘And the waters returned, and covered the Chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharoah that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them’.
    Amazingly, when this was all the world knew about the drowning of Pharaoh, the Qur’ân produced this astounding revelation:
    ‘We shall save you in your body this day, so that you may become a sign to all posterity.” Qur’ân Chapter 10 verse 92.
    How extraordinary this verse must have appeared when it was revealed. At that time no one knew that the Pharaoh’s body was really intact, and it was nearly 1400 hundred years before this fact came to light. It was a Professor Loret who, in 1898, was the first person to find the mummified remains of the Pharaoh who lived in Moses’ day.
    For 3000 years the corpse had remained wrapped in a sheet in the Tomb of the Necropolis at Thebes where Loret had found it, until July 8, 1907, when Elliot Smith uncovered it and subjected it to proper scientific examination. In 1912, he published a book, entitled The Royal Mummies. His research had proved that the mummy discovered by Loret was indeed that of the Pharaoh who ‘knew Moses, resisted his pleas, pursued him as he took flight, and lost his life in the process.’ His earthly remains were saved by the will of God from destruction to become a sign to man, as is written in the Qur’ân .
    In 1975, Dr. Bucaille, made a detailed examination of the Pharaoh’s mummy which by then had been taken to Cairo. His findings led him to write in astonishment and acclaim:
    ‘Those who seek among modern data for proof of the Holy Scriptures will find a magnificent illustration of the verses of the Qur’ân dealing with the Pharaoh’s body by visiting the Royal Mummies Room of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo!’ (Maurice Bucaille: The Bible. The Qur’ân and Science, p. 241)
    As early as the seventh century A.D., the Qur’ân had asserted that the Pharaoh’s body was preserved as a sign for man, but it was only in the 19th century that the body’s discovery gave concrete proof of this prediction. What further proof is needed that the Qur’ân is the Book of God? Certainly, there is no book like it, among the works of men.

  4. The jews are liers, it’s documented that they (as a whole people) never were in Egypt. And they were expelled from all nations because their supremacism and immoral behavior. F…g usurers, vampires, swindlers and murderers.

  5. Howard. Excellent comment. There is no original OT in any language. The Jews made their own bible by copying passages from other civilizations, the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Hindu civilizations. They provably wrote Hieroglyphics that were translated into Greek all made to their liking and to favor their race. “THE CHOSEN”.

  6. What two state solution are talking about?. Have you see the original map of Palestine in 1946? and the Palestine today?. Does that look like a two state????. The Jews have stolen every thing, there is nothing to negotiate. Shame on the Pope. He is a Jesuit (Bad News), he is one of them, the builders of the NWO.

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