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Joel Bainerman |
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ost Israelis have probably never thought very
much about what the Roman Catholic Church/The
Vatican thinks about "end of days" theology.
Jews themselves don't give much thought to what
will happen when "Gog and Magog" takes place.
Jews don't go in for anything the least bit
"next world" but instead are firmly planted in
the here and know. That's good.
However it doesn't matter what Jews think, what
matters is what The Vatican believes, and why it
believes this. Judaism, and modern Jewish
thought pretty much just dismisses the basic
tenets of Catholicism outright and doesn't even
bother addressing the core questions of what is
behind "Catholic theological claims."
Instead of taking what they believe seriously,
we tend to snicker amongst ourselves when we see
those pictures of obscure rituals and
ceremonies, and think the whole religion is near
pagan-like with the "eating of Holy Wafers" and
"sprinkling of Baptism water" on people's heads.
That may be true, but that doesn't matter. What
matters is what they believe and what they plan
to do about making their beliefs become a
reality.
The institution of "The Vatican" is not
understood by Israelis and Jews. The
conventional wisdom you get from the
spokespersons in Israeli government ministries
and the conventional Israeli media is "both
sides have great intentions to do good" and
that's about it. When it comes to Israel’s
bi-lateral affairs, nothing much gets
investigated by the Israeli media. Thus a secret
deal could be done between the Vatican and the
State of Israel and nobody in Israel would ever
find out about it.
In fact, that is exactly what happened.
This essay will provide the background to that
deal, as well as what the Vatican’s intentions
are regarding Israel and The Old City Of
Jerusalem. It will reveal which Israeli
politicians made certain commitments to The
Vatican regarding the issue of sovereignty in
the Old City of Jerusalem. These negotiations
and meetings were all carried out in secret.
During this time period, 1992-l995, the Oslo
Accords was what got all the public's attention.
Oslo was like "throwing sand in the eyes" of the
public. The Vatican is where the real action was
happening. Oslo seemed to be just the cover
story. A “red herring”, if you will.
What Does The Vatican Want?
It can't be that the Vatican is only interested
in "access to their Holy Sites" in Jerusalem.
They already have that as well as legal
jurisdiction under Israeli law for their
institutions and assets in Jerusalem. Also, when
these "Holy Sites" were under the jurisdiction
of the Jordanians from l948-l967, no Pope
demanded the "internationalization of
Jerusalem".
It is something else, which the Vatican wants.
The Roman Catholic Church, need to have certain
versions of events be played out for them to
stand in front of mankind and proclaim: our
Messiah has returned.” Of course, to the Jews,
this Messiah will be as false as the first one
was supposed to be. Don’t matter. This is the
goal of the Vatican and this is what all
Israelis need to worry about.
The Vatican/Roman Catholic’s version of events
is this:
They know this isn't the end of the story that
the Jewish G-d had in mind, but that doesn't
mean they won't try and engineer their own
ending to the story. So what if it is
fraudulent. Doesn't matter, that is their game
plan and that is what matters and that is what
Israeli Jews need to be better informed about.
It is important for everyone to know what The
Vatican have up its sleeve because it directly
relates to our existence and our future destiny
as an independent nation. This a very powerful
force this is scheming to get control of the Old
City of Jerusalem so you better know why and how
the Vatican intends to do this. Once you have
all the facts and the chronological record you
will be better informed deal with this issue and
of foreign control over Israel's political
existence and destiny.
First, you have to realize that for centuries
The Vatican has attempted to obtain control of
Jerusalem, which started with the Crusades. For
them to convince the world that the Messiah they
put on the world's stage is going to be accepted
as genuine, they need to perform this play in
the Old City. The story of this production is
that this "Messiah" will merge the three
monotheistic religions, usher in peace and
harmony in the world, and solve the Middle East
conflict. The location for this "production"
will be in none other than the Old City of
Jerusalem.
This so-called "Messiah" that will be
proclaimed, will be a false one and it will
insist that by having a "world government"
(i.e., the United Nations) the world peace and
harmony will be ushered in. This will be a lie,
and a fraud, but never mind. In our world,
reality isn't important. Public perceptions are.
The end result is the stripping of Israel's
sovereignty as an independent nation giving way
to a "regional bloc of nations" in the Middle
East. Israel will be pressured to accede to
these demands by all world bodies and the
superpowers on the claim that "this is the only
way to solve the Middle East conflict). In order
to the Jews to go along they will convince them
that with the "Messiah" having appeared for the
Jews, it is time to start rebuilding the Third
Temple- what they call "Solomon's Temple". This
version of events is widely available through a
simple search on the Internet as there are many
Christian groups and organizations (the majority
of which who are very pro-Israel) who don’t buy
into these beliefs and thus are against them. I
didn’t come up with the theory- I am just
brining it to the attention of the Israeli
public.
Make no mistake about it. The Old City of
Jerusalem, as well as most of the eastern half
of the city, is what The Vatican is after.
Why?
Because controlling the entire Old City of
Jerusalem (and not just Church properties) and
being able to build whatever they want on Mount
Zion is critical for the program they have
planned to put into play in our capital city.
The deal that it has signed with Israel via
Yossi Beilin and Shimon Peres (in secret and
without the approval of the Knesset) gives The
Church not only extraterritorial status to their
properties (which is what the bi-lateral
agreement the Israeli government signed with the
Vatican on December 30th, 1993, put in law) but
of control over the entire city as "custodians"
under UN presence. In this way the Jews will
give up control over the Old City. To the
Vatican the Israeli people would have a problem
with. To the UN, they would say, "we had no
choice".
A Chronology Of The Attempt By The Vatican To
Displace Israel From The Old City Of Jerusalem
The “Chronology of Events” for the Vatican’s
conquest of the Old City of Jerusalem is as
follows- all of which can be verified via the
sources of the information:
October 1991
On October 12th, the head of the World Jewish
Congress, Edgar Bronfman, is appointed head of
the International Jewish Committee of
Inter-religious Consultation to conduct
officials contacts with The Vatican and the
State of Israel.
March 1992
On March 17th, Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek
says: "The Israeli government should meet the
Vatican's demand to apply special status for
Jerusalem."
April 1992
On April 1st, The Vatican announced that it
"favors a Labor victory" in the June 1992
general elections in Israel.
On April 15th, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, one of
the highest ranking diplomats at The Vatican,
visits Israel for the first time but only meets
with Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek.
June 1992
The story of The Catholic Church's attempt to
abscond with the Old City of Jerusalem from the
Jews begins in July 1992. According to the
information on the Foreign Ministry website,
literally from the moment the new Rabin-led
Labor government took over from Yitzhak Shamir's
defeated Likud party, secret talks with the
Vatican and the State of Israel began. What
precipitated these secret talks? Who arranged
these talks, and why? Why were they kept secret
from the Israeli public? What was the end result
of these agreements? Where do they stand today?
The entire subject of Israel's bi-lateral
relations with the Vatican is intentionally kept
locked away in secrecy. It is no wonder that
nobody in Israel knows much about
"Israel-Vatican relations" as it is never, ever
reported on in the Israeli press.
The official story of the origins of Israel's
"secret channel contacts" between Beilin's
negotiating team and the Vatican comes about as
a result of Shlomo Gur, a personal aide to
Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin, who knew
someone who put him in touch with Father David
Jaeger. Father David Jaeger was president of the
Catholic Court in Austin, Texas, and was brought
up as an Israeli orthodox Jew who then converted
to Catholicism and became a Father (not
something that has happened to many Israelis who
grew up Orthodox). From there, which according
to the information on the Israel Foreign
Ministry website was in July 1992 right after
the new Rabin government took over power,
nothing is known about the discussions until the
agreement is signed on Dec. 30th, 1993. Nothing
in the Israeli press. The info given on the
actual agreement signed was very minimal and
general in tone. This is probably one of the
most important political contacts Israel has in
the world's "power structure" yet it isn't
reported on in the press. Thus no Israelis know
about it. That is how it remains hidden.
November, l992
The document which was used as the underlying
ideological basis for the Vatican's secret deal
with Yossi Beilin and Shimon Peres was
personally authored by Beilin. "The
Illegitimacy of Israeli Sovereignty Over
Jerusalem" outlines the Israeli government's
program for the future of Jerusalem and calls
for the division of the Old City into cantons
whose border posts will be under UN control.
The plan which led to the December, 1993
agreement between The Vatican and the State of
Israel was originally discussed in November 1992
at the exact same time the first meetings in
London took place to discuss an agreement
between Israel and the PLO which led to the Oslo
Agreements. The real goal was the Vatican
attempt to take over the Old City of Jerusalem.
Oslo, or, "peace between Israel and the
Palestinians" was just a good cover story to
hide what was really going on in another sphere
of Israel's foreign affairs.
September, 1993
On the 10th of September, just three days before
the signing of the Oslo Accords Washington, the
Italian newspaper La Stampa reported that then
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres concluded a secret
deal with the Vatican to hand over sovereignty
of Jerusalem's Old City to the Vatican. the
agreement and it was included in the secret
clauses of the Declaration Of Principles signed
on September 13th, 1993 in Washington, DC.
In the same week that Israeli Foreign Minister
and chief Oslo architect Shimon Peres signed the
Declaration of Principles with Yasser Arafat in
Washington, the Israel-Vatican commission held a
special meeting in Israel. Under the Vatican
agreement the Israelis would give over control
the Old City to the Vatican before the year
2000. The plan also calls for Jerusalem to
become the second Vatican of the world with all
three major religions represented but under the
authority of the Vatican. Jerusalem will remain
the capital of Israel but the Old City will be
administered by the Vatican.
Arafat agreed to the plan just before the famous
"handshake" in 1993, but when he realized that
the Vatican was also going to let Israel share
in the temple mount, he rejected it. (To get
Arafat and the Palestinians "on board", on
February 14th, 2000, the PA did sign an
agreement with the Vatican which recognized the
Palestinians' claims to East Jerusalem. The
outbreak of the "Al Asqa Intifada" seven months
after this agreement was signed may have been
part of the commitment Arafat gave the Vatican
as to what he would do for him in return for the
Vatican acknowledging Palestinians claims to
East Jerusalem and the right to statehood. The
violence in the Middle East serves the Catholic
Church's interest especially if Jerusalem is the
subject to discuss. By Arafat getting guarantees
from the Vatican that no matter what he does the
Europeans will not abandon him, then it makes
sense for him to declare war on Israel in Sept
2000. The "Barak gave him everything at Camp
David" is propaganda. Nothing was offered that
the Knesset would have approved. The intifada
could only have happened if Arafat had gotten
assurances from major European powers that he
would survive. The agreement on Feb 2000 would
have made more sense if it had occurred three or
four years previous. However its timing when it
was makes the Sept 2000 intifada seem logical
from Arafat's perspective.
November 1993
In a report in the Jerusalem weekly newspaper
Kol Ha'ir, it was revealed that: "for the past
six months, The Israeli government has been
taking advice on the future of Jerusalem from a
planning commission headed by a close aide of
Teddy Kollek, Raanan Weitz, formerly the
settlement director of the Jewish Agency. At a
secret meeting on September 9, 1993, one day
before Prime Minister Rabin signed the
recognition agreement with the PLO in Israel,
the forum met secretly and approved in principle
a plan for Jerusalem concocted by Weitz, which
he calls, "Metropolitan Jerusalem."
December, 1993
With absolutely no media coverage in Israel, on
December 30th an "historic agreement with the
Vatican" is publicly acknowledged. Called: "The
Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See and
The State of Israel", it declares:
"Mindful of the singular character and universal
significance of the Holy Land. Aware of the
unique nature of the relationship between the
Catholic Church and the Jewish people, and of
the historic process of reconciliation and
growth in mutual understanding and friendship
between Catholics and Jews;
"Having decided on 29 July 1992 to establish a
'Bilateral Permanent Working Commission', in
order to study and define together issues of
common interest, and in view of normalizing
their relations"
Already within one month of taking power there
was a special committee to further
"Israeli-Vatican Relations". From where did this
initiative come so soon as the new government
took office?
April 1994
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Shmuel Meir announces
at a Jerusalem press conference that he had
received information that properties promised to
the Vatican in Jerusalem would be granted
extraterritorial status. (In early 1996 Meir was
killed in a very suspicious car crash whereby
the driver who drove a UN truck into Meir's car
was not even charged.)
May 1994
Marek Halter, a French intellectual/philosopher
and a close friend of Peres, tells the Israeli
weekly magazine HaShishi that he personally
delivered a letter from Peres to the Pope in
Sept, 1993 in which Peres promised to
internationalize Jerusalem, granting the UN
political control of the Old City of Jerusalem,
and the Vatican hegemony of the holy sites
within. The UN would give the PLO a capital
within its new territory and East Jerusalem
would become a kind of free trade zone of world
diplomacy.
June 1994
On June 15th, the Israeli government signs an
agreement with The Vatican allowing the Catholic
Church to participate in negotiations to
determine the future of Jerusalem.
July, 1994
On July 9th, 1994, the Vatican's Foreign
Minister, Jean-Louis Tauran, announces in Amman,
Jordan: "Before territorial problems are
resolved, we have to find international
guarantees to safeguard the uniqueness of the
city and assurances that never again one party
should claim Jerusalem as its
possession."
November l994
Israel signs a peace treaty with Jordan which,
according to reports in Haaretz, Maariv, and
Yediot Achronot, included secret clauses
concerning water and Jerusalem. The agreement
had been negotiated in London eight months
before between Rabin, King Hussein, and Lord
Victor Mishcon. As part of the agreement, Jordan
would receive control over the Islamic Holy
sites within a Vatican-controlled Old City of
Jerusalem.
March 1995
A cable from the Israeli Embassy in Rome to The
Foreign Ministry was in Jerusalem is leaked to
radio station Arutz Sheva, confirming the
handover of Jerusalem to the Vatican. Two days
later the cable made front page of Haaretz. In
the widely distributed minutes of a meeting with
President Clinton in 1997, Peres ended the cable
with the words, "as I had previously promised
the Holy See."
April 1995
Member of Knesset Avraham Shapira announced in
the Knesset that he had information that all
Vatican property in Jerusalem was to become tax
exempt and that large tracts of real estate on
Mount Zion were given to the Pope in perpetuity.
February l996
A delegation from the Vatican met in Jerusalem
with Palestinian Authority Religious Affairs
Minister, Hassan Tahbob. Father Serge Sebastian,
Secretary General of the Vatican, announced that
the Holy See recognizes Palestinian sovereignty
over East Jerusalem. After Shimon Peres had
replaced Yitzhak Rabin as Israel's prime
minister, Internal Security Minister Moshe
Shachal refused to allow a Palestinian Authority
meeting at the Vatican's Notre Dame Hospice in
Jerusalem. According to Shachal, the
Palestinians were planning to "use the Vatican
to circumvent the Oslo Accords."
November, 1997
On November 10th, the State of Israel and the
Vatican sign the "Legal Personality Agreement"
whereby the State of Israel agrees to "assure
full effect law to the legal personality of the
Catholic Church itself." (What that means in
plain english is anyone's guess.)
February 2000
Hedging its bets by having bi-lateral agreements
with both sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict, on
February 14th, Pope John Paul 11 meets Arafat in
Rome to sign an accord to normalize relations
between Roman Catholic churches in Jerusalem and
PA. Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker
Ahmed Qurei told The Jerusalem Post that the
agreement is "recognition by the Catholic Church
of the Palestinian claims to the eastern half of
Jerusalem." According to Arafat's spokesperson,
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, "Arafat had been lobbying
for the idea of sharing undivided Jerusalem, and
for creating a Vatican-style sovereignty in the
Old City." (Somehow we are supposed to believe
that Arafat initiated this, and not the
Vatican). The agreement calls for Jerusalem to
be "an international city based on international
resolutions and an international guarantee."
The pack was signed despite the Vatican having
signed an agreement with Israel six years
earlier on December 30th, 1993 which gave legal
jurisdiction under Israeli law over the Church's
own institutions and assets in the Holy Land.
March 2000
The Pope visits the Holy Land and repeats the
Holy See's insistence that" international
oversight- 'a special statute, internationally
guaranteed'- would best safeguard the city's
holy sites and all its religions. The city of
Jerusalem is the main obstacle to peace in the
region."
On March 27th, the Palestinian Authority says
that The Vatican no longer insists on
international status for the Old City of
Jerusalem, and that The Vatican accepts the
political division of the Old City between
Israel and the Palestinians. (One has to wonder
if this agreement had anything to do with
Arafat’s decision to wage war on Israel six
months later?)
October 2000
In a speech to the United Nations on October
30th, Archbishop Renato Martino declared: "The
"unique character" of Jerusalem as a city sacred
to three great religions makes it essential that
religious leaders, not politicians, control the
holy sites." In his meeting on October 26th with
Lebanese Ambassador to the Vatican, Fouad Aoun,
Pope John Paul 11 said that the city of
Jerusalem should be given "specially guaranteed
international status."
January 2001
Israel TV journalists secretly film under the
Shrine Of Omar, the 7th century Islamic building
which may have been deliberately constructed
over the Holy of Holies, them most sacred prayer
room of the ancient Jewish Temple. The video
revealed a new and massive tunnel aimed directly
at the most sacred core of Solomon's and later,
Herod's Temples. During the Crusades the early
12th century chivalric order, The Knights
Templer, dug under the ruins for nine years and
found a network of tunnels where the Jewish
priests hid their treasures form the marauding
Romans in 70 CE. It was also assumed that the
original records of the Jerusalem Church which
prove that the Vatican was not practicing
Christianity as its founders had intended, was
buried in this spot. A pope with exclusive
rights of divine interpretation was not part of
G-d's plan. If these scrolls were made public
they would jeopardize Rome's legitimacy. Thus it
is imperative to The Vatican that the Jews be
removed from the Temple Mount so that they don't
find these important scrolls. The PA is serving
as the Vatican's "building contractors" in this
arrangement in the hope that the Vatican will
side with the Palestinians in the conflict with
Israel.
July 2002
Israeli, US and German delegations at the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe in Berlin have to fight a surprise
proposal to internationalize Jerusalem’s Old
City by the Italian delegation to the meeting.
The head of the Italian delegation told Rabbi
Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the US-based
Simon Weisenthal Center, that the main concern
of the Italian government was that “in the
future when there are peace discussions, the
Palestinian entity will be given control of the
Christian Holy sites.”
Why the secular government of Italy should be
worried about this was not explained in the new
item. (The Jerusalem Post, July 8th, 2002)
So What Is The Vatican Planning And What Can
Israeli Jews Do About It?
For centuries the Vatican has been pushing its
"replacement" doctrine which states that the
Catholic has replaced Israel as "the New
Israel".
The Roman Catholic Church wants Israel to lose
sovereign control over the Old City of Jerusalem
so that "the promises to the literal descendents
of Abraham will be applied to the 'New
Jerusalem.'" If Israel controls Jerusalem it is
evidence that Rome's claims are not legitimate
and that the literal interpretation of
Scriptures is correct. There is no place for the
restoration of the nation of Israel in its
theology. How can the Vatican claim to be "the
New Jerusalem" and "rightful heir to the Kingdom
of God" if the Jews control Jerusalem? How is
the Catholic Church going to convince the world
that their version of theology is correct?
The Vatican is going to have everyone believe
this "mysterious individual who will "unite the
faiths" and appear in Jerusalem which will be
under the control of an authority headed by The
Vatican. " That deal to have the Vatican come
into Israel and take over these properties and
to "control and dominate the Old City of
Jerusalem" already exists and has been fully
documented and reported in the world's media.
The end goal of The Vatican is to seize control
of the Old City of Jerusalem out of the clutches
of the state of Israel. To that end they have a
secret agreement with Israel which obliges
Israel to respect the "extraterritorial" claim
to their physical presence in the city. In
short, "we have accepted the Vatican's rights to
have little Vatican sovereign embassies
throughout our eternal capital of Jerusalem.
That same Vatican has committed itself, in
public and in a written agreement, to ensure
that the Palestinians have sovereignty in the
Old City of Jerusalem.
The public record shows a secret deal has
already been conducted behind the backs of the
Israeli public whereby the Vatican was promised
to take over the Old City. There is ample proof
in the public record to prove that a secret deal
was done with the Vatican by two Israeli
government representatives, Yossi Beilin and
Shimon Peres. As it was concocted covertly it
can’t serve the Israeli public- but someone
else. Thus these agreements need to be made void
and nullified.
It doesn't matter if religious Jews or Israelis
think that "Catholic theology" is "strange
looking" or extremely "ritualistic." What
matters is that all Israelis understand that The
Vatican has a secret agenda and it includes
stealing the Old City of Jerusalem away from the
Jews. That is what you need to know and
understand. Unfortunately, this agenda is being
carried out in secret and behind your back and
that is why you are ignorant of its true aims.
The purpose of this essay is to warn you of
these exact intentions of The Vatican so that
you will be an "informed consumer" when it comes
to Israel's relations with the Roman Catholic
Church. Even the overt clauses of the Vatican
agreement, the exchange of ambassadors and the
opening of the Vatican archives to Israeli
researchers, have not been fulfilled by The
Vatican. From an Israeli perspective, the
"Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See and
The State of Israel" has been a complete failure
and should be immediately rescinded.
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