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To: Mrs. Don-o
Can you explain to me why Pope Francis referred to Palestine as a state, when the Lord has promised to enter into judgment with the people who divide up His land (Joel 3:2)?

I think that was Mrs. Glick's main complaint with the Pope, that he acknowledged Judea and Samaria as Palestine, not Israel.

2 posted on 06/09/2014 5:18:09 PM PDT by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: Former Fetus

“Can you explain to me why Pope Francis referred to Palestine as a state, when the Lord has promised to enter into judgment with the people who divide up His land (Joel 3:2)?”

I can explain it. Whether you like it or not, whether I like it or not, most people around the world think Palestine should be an independent nation. Thus, Francis, like most people on the planet called Palestine a state - which in fact it is in that it has its own laws, own flag, own territory, own parliament, own police force, own history (however artificial), etc. Thus, none of those people outside of Palestine and Israel are diving up the land. They are merely recognizing what is already obvious.


3 posted on 06/09/2014 5:37:56 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Former Fetus
The Pope didn't have a hand in this dividing...

...and the legal drawing and re-drawing of of the lines have been done over and over, over and over again by Jews and Gentiles, Empires and Rebels since it was united as a "State" under David and then divided after just one generation, after Solomon.

You might want to ask most religiously observant of the Israeli Jews, the nearly million-strong Haredi, why they support a State of Palestine, when the secular agnostic Jews do not?

18 posted on 06/09/2014 6:43:08 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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