Contra Christiansen & Aldajani, Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Contra Christiansen & Aldajani, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I would respond that on settlments, Israel has about as much due process as it can handle.  Most of their neighborhood is not a fair comparison - they claim to be a western style republic.  Any Zionist would shudder at what any US District Court would do if given the case of Israel and the Territories.  Palestine should not exist as its own state.  It should be part of either a larger Arab multi-state or Israel proper with full citizenship to the Palestinians - something the Israeli Arabs really don't even enjoy.



I am not and have never been a friend of Hamas, but the firecrackers they launched at Israel deserved no response at all, while I would love to see how a federal court in the US would deal with how Israel treats Gaza.



The claims by Drew and Ra'fat are not a claim about land, but about personhood.  Unless someone can point to either a mass migration or a slow one, the reality is likely that the Palestinians had been Christians when the Muslims invaded and before that were Samaritans - the first mass converts.  It is their land, to be shared with the tribe of Judah and with those Samaritans who are in exile, the Romany (my people). This is why resettlement is an insult.  The Palestinian cause, which they do not yet know about, is inclusion as full citizens - or it has to be independence under its own flag and sovereignty - or that of an Arab state.  It shall not be anything that looks like Gaza, which I have heard is not a state but a concentration camp.



Attacks on Fr. Drew from third party sources are undignified without giving him a chance to answer them.  Nor is it up to Fr. Drew to keep track of the retractions of other authors he admires.  As for Fr. Drew being the tool of anti-Semites - let me continue that all Arabs are Semites - Palestinians are doubly so for the likelihood of their membership in the Samaritan community (do you really think the small band we see on TV every Passover sticking lamb into a pit is all that is left of half of the original Canaanites?).



To end, MSW seems to think his Zionism is the Goyim Catholic's burden.  It might me.  So is affirming the rights of the Romany who died in the Holocaust in what we call the Parajmos. Look into it MSW.  The brothers of those who died are the Palestinians.  The question is not whether there is anti-Semetism in Hamas.  Of course there is.  Like I said yesterday, if the English took over a financially failed U.S. and was faced with Irish American violence, how would MSW characterize that?  The fatal flaw in Israel is that it claims to be an American style state.  Yet if you look closely, it is not.  Period.