Posted on 05/02/2014 6:08:33 AM PDT by marshmallow
That's nonsense...That land was given to Israel long before a church ever showed up...
“That land was given to Israel long before a church ever showed up...”
The Israel it was given to ceased to exist 2,000 years ago. There was no Israel for over 1900 years.
“No one owns any religious property in Israel except Israel...”
That’s not what Israel believes.
I wasn’t thinking of the Palestinian Catholics but the church hierarchy that at the very least is oriented towards a UN-style “global perspective” (aka: anti-Israel).
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from later in the same article:
> However, last July the Israeli deputy foreign minister, Zeev Elkin, denied rumors that the government was prepared to recognize Vatican ownership of the building.
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