Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, part twenty-one

Although the distractions of the world in which we live are many, including the distractions provided by the bread and circuses of sports, so-called “entertainment” and the never-ending mock gladiatorial battles between the false opposites of the naturalist “left” and the naturalist “right,” believing Catholics know enough to look at the world through the eyes of the true Faith and not be distracted with this or that alleged “bombshell” or this or that coverup plotted by the master engineers of social manipulation deep within the lower reaches of The Swamp in Washington, District of Columbia.

Believing Catholics understand that there are genocidal maniacs at work throughout the globe, especially here at home as murderers white coats and blue smocks continue their daily attacks on the innocent preborn, infants who happen to survive surgical attempts to assassinate them before birth and to dispatch with innocent human beings anytime thereafter under a variety of entirely manufactured money-making pretexts based upon pure utilitarianism and sold to the unsuspecting and the gullible with such slogans “death with dignity,” “compassionate care,” “quality of life,” and among many others, “giving the gift of life.” This global genocide was discussed at length in Life, Death, and Truth: Under Attack by Medicine and Law.

The global genocide against the preborn, the “unwanted,” the “useless,” and the suffering is accompanied now by the unmistakable genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank by the murderously Zionist thugs of the Israeli Defense Forces, a genocide that is fueled by the fact that three quarters of the Israeli population believes that there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian human being:

A strong majority of Jewish Israelis indicate support for their government’s deliberate ongoing war crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.

A poll released from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in early June reveals that roughly 75% of Jewish Israelis agree with the statement that “there are no innocent people in Gaza” where — at least since October 7, 2023 — there resided one million children.

A report on the poll from the Israeli publication Haaretz revealed that 64% of the nation’s overall citizenry agreed with the statement while also stipulating that among Arab Israeli respondents, 92% disagreed. Since 17.2% of Israeli citizens are Arab, the figure for Jewish Israelis equates to approximately 75%.

The poll also measured agreement with the “no innocents” phrase across the political spectrum of voters in Israel finding that 87% of those who support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government agreed with the statement, and of those “right wing voters” who do not support his coalition, 73% nonetheless agree.

Of voters who support the centrist parties in opposition to Netanyahu, 63% agree with the statement, with even 30% of “left-wing” voters expressing approval of this assertion as well.

These sentiments have manifested themselves in both the genocidal words and deeds of Israeli government officials since, and even before, October 7, 2023.

During Israel’s full humanitarian blockade against the two million Palestinians in Gaza, Knesset member (MK) Moshe Saada stated in late April on Israeli television that “I will starve the Gazans, yes, absolutely,” further stipulating, “It is our duty to expel the Gazans” and use starvation as a means to achieve this goal. “I want to starve Gazans completely, a full siege.”

In early May, other MKs also indicated that starving the children of Gaza was not necessarily a bad thing or was withholding painkillers from children who have had their limbs amputated due to bombing injuries from the Israeli army.

Anti-Palestinian hate and genocidal malice normative among Israeli leaders, public

In March, LifeSiteNews released a report extensively documenting the genocidal ideology fueled by the heresy of religious Zionism. The extremist teachings of these sects rationalize the expelling or direct killing of the entire Palestinian population by Jews as a supposed fulfillment of biblical prophecy

Having subjected most of the Palestinian population (5.4 million) to a brutal military occupation of their internationally recognized territory for over 58 years, this deadly ideology has continued to grow among Jewish Israelis until it successfully secured power as part of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition in late 2022.

Though tens of thousands of Jews and rabbis wholly reject this heresy the report mentioned above cites many Zionist rabbis approving “indiscriminate killing of civilians,” killing “men, women and children,” wiping out “all of them” (Palestinians) in order to take their land, “do not have mercy on the children. Kill all their children,” “bomb the entire area,” “exterminate the enemy,” block “supplies (and) electricity,” “this is about animals,” “dogs,” the region must be “clean of Arabs” and more.

The article goes on to quote Israeli political leaders who have made similar statements over the years, especially in response to the October 7 Hamas breakout attack on southern Israel. Legitimizing the targeting of every civilian in Gaza, including children, some affirmed the poll phrase above, there are “no innocent civilians in Gaza.” Other comments include, “bomb without distinction!” “These are animals, they have no right to exist,” “erase Gaza. Nothing else will satisfy us,” “we are fighting against animals,” and more.

Other polls show almost 70% of Israelis support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

Naturally, such attitudes have been reflected in public opinion as well with polls revealing the broader Israeli population is in general agreement with these religious and political leaders in their desire to exterminate Gaza’s population.

Despite Israel’s horrendous bombing in the Gaza Strip, with the world being inundated with images of entire neighborhoods destroyed, men lifting the corpses of their bloodied and broken children from the rubble, and dirty frantic hospitals treating patients with missing limbs, one late October 2023 Tel Aviv University poll found that 58 percent of Israeli Jews said the army was using too little firepower in its assault on Gaza, and less than 2 percent said it was too much.

Another poll conducted in December 2023 asked, “To what extent should Israel take into consideration the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza when planning the continuation of the fighting there?” Over 80 percent of Jewish Israelis answered, “to a very small extent” or “to a fairly small extent” (40 and 41 percent, respectively).

Additionally, in January, 2024, an Israeli Channel 12 poll found that 72% of Israelis believe humanitarian aid to the 2 million Gazan civilians, including 1 million children, “must be stopped until the Israeli prisoners are released” by Hamas.

By April, 2024, Israel had dropped over 70,000 tons of explosives on Gaza, equivalent in magnitude to almost five of the single atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. These bombings have destroyed an estimated 69 percent of structures in Gaza including at least 245,000 homes.

Yet even as this massive destruction and astronomical death toll was compounding every day, a May 2024 Pew Research survey found comparable numbers to previous polls with 34% of Israeli respondents still saying Israel’s military response against the Palestinians in Gaza had not gone far enough, 39% saying it had been about right, and only 19% believing it had gone too far.

Finally, last February, President Donald Trump shocked the world when during a press conference he announced his plan to “permanently” ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from their internationally recognized native territory.

Despite the plan’s overwhelming rejection by virtually the entire rest of the world, a poll of Israeli adults conducted by the local Channel 12 found that a full 68% of respondents supported Trump’s criminal ethnic cleansing plan, and 20% opposed it with 12% saying they were unsure.

A documented genocide, conservative estimates of over 287,000 dead

As Israel continues to massacre and starve Palestinian civilians on a daily basis, reliable reports of Palestinian deaths number at least 57,418, including 17,400 children, at a confirmed minimum with at least 136,261 people injured. These dead do not include around 14,000 who are missing and presumed dead and buried under the rubble.

According to a rationale presented in a Lancet study in July 2024, one can conservatively estimate total deaths, including indirect fatalities due to causes like starvation, lack of medicine or proper medical care to include 287,090 (126,320 children).

Last December, advocacy groups Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released extensive reports concluding Israeli authorities were deliberately seeking to bring about the destruction of the people of Gaza by various means, including the deprivation of necessities like water, food, energy and medical care, amounting to crimes of genocide.

Additionally, in January 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered a preliminary ruling, finding the charge of genocide against Israel to be “plausible,” and last November the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli defense chief Yoav Gallant “for crimes against humanity and war crimes,” including “starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.” (75% of Jewish Israelis believe ‘there are no innocents in Gaza’: Hebrew University poll.)

As I have mentioned several times in the past, one of the supreme ironies at work in the Israeli hatred for and genocide against the Palestinian people is that this contemptuous attitude and murderous behavior upon “subhumans,” which is how the late Ariel Sharon once described Palestinians, is the exact same attitude that the diabolical practitioner of the occult named Adolph Hitler had for the Jews themselves.

The Zionists have long used the crimes committed by the Nazis as the pretext for invading Palestine and using oppression, thievery, and violence against the Palestinians whose families had lived in the area for centuries to found the State of Israel in 1948 but are now completely oblivious to this irony as the plot the destruction of innocent human beings and their residences as their government imposes its own “final solution” upon Palestinians, most of whom today are Mohammedans among the tiny minority of Christians, with the same kind of soulless determination that motivated the Nazis themselves.

Many of the Nazis had sold their immortal souls directly to the devil; the Zionists, of course, along with the Mohammedans, have souls that are captive to the devil by means of Original Sin. Those who have souls that captive to or possessed by the devil are prone to hatred and the violence that flows so easily therefrom, including direct, intentional attacks upon healthcare workers aiding their fellow Palestinians amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza:

Dr. Marwan Sultan was taking a rare break from work to be home with his family Wednesday when, at 2:15 p.m., he became a grim statistic: the 70th health care worker to be killed by Israeli fire in the past 50 days, according to a Palestinian monitoring group.

Soon after at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, an NBC News crew witnessed grieving family members and colleagues surround the body of Sultan, a renowned cardiologist, who was killed along with his wife, daughter, son-in-law and sister.

In the morgue, hospital workers wiped blood off Sultan's ashen and scratched face as his body lay wrapped in a smeared white sheet. Visitors embraced and kissed him, their wails reverberating around the room, according to the video.

“My father was just a doctor, just a human caring for patients,” one of Sultan’s surviving children, Ahmad, said as his voice trembled.

Ahmad, 17, told NBC News that his family was taking shelter in an apartment in Gaza with five other displaced families when the Israeli bomb hit. Later, he wept in the arms of a relative.

Sultan was the director of Indonesian Hospital, one of the largest medical facilities in northern Gaza, where he had been treating the sick and wounded since the war in the Gaza Strip broke out in October 2023.

“He was a rare doctor,” Dr. Munir Bursh, the director general of the Health Ministry, told NBC News between tears. “A man of deep expertise and an even deeper conscience. We didn’t just lose a doctor — we lost a man who was a lifeline to so many.”

Healthcare Workers Watch, an organization that monitors and verifies attacks against Palestinian health care workers, said that Sultan was the 70th worker to be killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past 50 days.

It added that Sultan, an associate professor at Islamic University in Gaza, was one of the two remaining heart specialists in the besieged enclave.

The United Nations estimates that more than 1,400 health care workers have died in the war.

Bursh was seen embracing his fellow physician, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, as they both wept over Sultan's body.

The Israeli military told NBC News that it had targeted a “key terrorist” from Hamas in the Gaza City area and was reviewing reports of the incident involving Sultan.

It added that it regretted any harm caused to “uninvolved individuals” and was taking steps to mitigate such harm.

The Palestinian Health Ministry praised Sultan's “long career of giving in the fields of medicine and compassion, during which he was a symbol of dedication, steadfastness, and sincerity during the most difficult circumstances.”

Referring to Sultan's death, it also accused the Israeli forces of a wider pattern of killings and detentions of Gaza’s doctors, which it said included Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlout and Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Kamal Adwan Hospital, who have been held in Israeli detention for more than 500 days.

The Israeli military has repeatedly stated that medical facilities in Gaza are being used as operating bases for Hamas, places to store weapons and as spaces for operatives a=thide among the civilian population sheltering in them, an accusation that health officials in the enclave deny. It did not respond when asked if it was targeting doctors in their homes.

Family and friends were still mourning Sultan’s death when Israeli airstrikes over the past day killed 130 Palestinians, including 25 who died while waiting for aid at distribution sites, according to Dr. Marwan al-Hams, the director of Gaza’s field hospitals.

Health officials say more than 56,000 people have been killed in the enclave since Israel launched its military offensive in response to the Hamas-led terrorist attack in which 1,200 people were killed and over 250 taken hostage.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, in a separate statement Wednesday, said that it was “deeply alarmed” by the deaths caused by the “intensifying hostilities” in Gaza over the past three days.

The attacks come as “Gaza’s already-decimated healthcare system struggles to absorb a relentless surge in critical cases,” the ICRC said, adding that nearly all of Gaza’s public hospitals had been shut down or gutted by repeated attacks and restrictions on the flow of medical aid by Israeli authorities.

“The ICRC urgently reiterates its call for the protection of medical personnel and medical facilities in Gaza,” it said, adding, “They must be respected and protected to safeguard a lifeline for the wounded and sick.” (Israeli strike kills renowned doctor Marwan Sultan amid renewed attacks on healthcare workers.)

Dr. Marwan Sultan was simply doing his work as a physician. Then again, according to the demonic “ethos” of the Israeli Zionists, there are no one in Gaza is “innocent,” thus making them legitimate targets for being killed as the Israeli Defense Forces continue to bombard this already devastated area on a daily basis:

Israeli forces have continued to pound the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, as ceasefire talks stall amid a deepening fuel and hunger crisis.

An Israeli attack near an aid distribution point in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least five people who were seeking aid on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The killings raised the death toll of Palestinians killed near aid sites run by the controversial Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to 838, according to Wafa.

In Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza, an Israeli strike on a displacement camp killed nine people and wounded many others. In central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, four people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a commercial centre, Wafa said.

Israeli forces also resumed stepping up attacks in northern Gaza and Gaza City. Israeli media reported an ambush in Gaza City, with a tank hit by rocket fire and later, with small arms. A helicopter was seen evacuating casualties. The Israeli military later confirmed that three soldiers were killed in the incident.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said Israeli forces responded with “massive air strikes in the vicinity of [the] Tuffah and Shujayea neighbourhoods, levelling residential buildings”.

The Wafa news agency said at least 24 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City and dozens more were wounded.

The attacks come as UN agencies continue to plead for more aid to be allowed into Gaza, where famine looms and a severe fuel shortage has brought the already battered healthcare sector to its knees.

Gaza’s water crisis has also intensified since Israel blocked nearly all fuel shipments into the enclave on March 2. With no fuel, desalination plants, wastewater treatment facilities and pumping stations have largely shut down.

Egypt’s foreign minister said on Monday that the flow of aid into Gaza has not increased despite an agreement last week between Israel and the European Union that should have had that result.

“Nothing has changed [on the ground],” Badr Abdelatty told reporters ahead of the EU-Middle East meeting in Brussels.

‘A real catastrophe’

The EU’s top diplomat said on Thursday that the bloc and Israel agreed to improve Gaza’s humanitarian situation, including increasing the number of aid trucks and opening crossing points and aid routes.

When asked what steps Israel has taken, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Saar referred to an understanding with the EU but did not provide details on the implementation.

Asked if there were improvements after the agreement, Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi told reporters that the situation in Gaza remains “catastrophic”.

“There is a real catastrophe happening in Gaza resulting from the continuation of the Israeli siege,” he said.

Meanwhile, stuttering ceasefire talks entered a second week on Monday, with mediators seeking to close the gap between Israel and Hamas.

The indirect negotiations in Qatar appear to still remain deadlocked after both sides blamed the other for blocking a deal for the release of captives and a 60-day ceasefire.

An official with knowledge of the talks said they were “ongoing” in Doha on Monday, the AFP news agency reported.

“Discussions are currently focused on the proposed maps for the deployment of Israeli forces within Gaza,” the source reportedly said.

“Mediators are actively exploring innovative mechanisms to bridge the remaining gaps and maintain momentum in the negotiations,” the source added on condition of anonymity.

Hamas accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who says he wants to see the Palestinian group destroyed, of being the main obstacle.

“Netanyahu is skilled at sabotaging one round of negotiations after another, and is unwilling to reach any agreement,” the group wrote on Telegram.

Netanyahu is under growing pressure to end the war, with military casualties rising and public frustration mounting.

He also faces backlash over the feasibility and ethics of a plan to build a so-called “humanitarian city” from scratch on the ruins of southern Gaza’s Rafah to house 600,000 Palestinians if and when a ceasefire takes hold.

Israel’s security establishment is reported to be unhappy with the plan, which the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said amounts to plans for a “concentration camp”. (Israel bombards Gaza, killing 78, as truce talks stall.)

This ongoing genocide and thorough-going destruction of almost every building in Gaza City is meant to provide a perverse “justification” for the forcible removal of those Palestinians who fight off starvation despite Israel’s limiting of humanitarian aid to Gaza and/or survive the daily bombing attacks into the sort of concentration camp that the Zionist invaders of seventy-seven years ago rounded up those they had displaced from their homes. It is, to quote the late Lawrence Peter Berra, “Déjà vu all over again”:

With Gaza ceasefire negotiations under way and President Trump raising hopes of a deal being reached by week’s end, Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday revealed that the IDF will create what it calls a “humanitarian city” in the wasteland that is Rafah, and then forcibly concentrate Gaza’s entire population of nearly 2 million people inside it.

Though the Israeli government and its advocates will likely to condemn already-widespread usage of the term “concentration camp” to describe this undertaking — likely claiming it’s somehow antisemitic given the parallels to Nazi Germany — it’s unambiguously applicable under the Merriam-Webster definition of the  term:

concentration camp (noun) a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard  

In the first phase, the IDF plans to round up 600,000 displaced Palestinians who are living in the coastal Mawasi area and move them to Rafah, a city in southernmost Gaza that borders Egypt and Israel. Eventually, every Gaza resident will be moved. After security screening, Palestinians will be ushered inside the camp, with IDF guards ensuring that none are able to leave, Katz said.

While the Israeli military will secure the perimeter, the Netanyahu government is looking for some type of international organization(s) to take charge of the interior, to include overseeing the distribution of aid, an enterprise currently managed by the shadowy Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with the IDF dishing out mass killings of Palestinians approaching the aid points; more than 600 are reported dead around the aid stations since late May. Whistleblowing soldiers have told reporters that lethal weapons are being used against unarmed people as brute-force crowd control.

Katz’s announcement contradicts what the IDF Chief of Staff’s office told Israel’s High Court on the very same day. In response to a petition filed by IDF reserve soldiers asking the court to determine if Israel was violating international law by forcibly displacing Palestinians with perhaps the ultimate goal of expelling them, the Chief of Staff’s office said there was no plan to move masses of Gaza residents or to concentrate them somewhere in the territory. However, that assurance is itself seemingly contradicted by the operations order for “Gideon’s Chariots,” the IDF’s latest operation launched in May, which says one objective is “managing and mobilizing the civilian population,” Haaretz reports.

On Monday, Katz also reiterated Israel’s intention to subsequently facilitate Palestinians’ departures to other countries, telling reporters that Israel will implement “the emigration plan, which will happen.” Separately, however, an official told Haaretz that Israel’s overtures to various countries have all been refused. While Israel’s champions commonly claim such refusals prove that Palestinians are dangerously undesirable people, Middle East governments are intensely wary of being perceived by their own populations as facilitating ethnic cleansing by Israel, for fear of domestic backlash up to and including insurrections.

For somewhat similar reasons, Israel is likely to struggle to find what Katz called “international partners” to run the interior of the Rafah concentration camp. Human-rights-oriented groups and foreign governments will recoil at an invitation to serve as a key component of a scheme that most objective observers would characterize as a war crime. Given that, we could see the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fill the void, which would only compound the controversy.

Meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck an optimistic tone about the prospect of mass Palestinian emigration, and characterized the idea as voluntary in nature:

“If people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave. We’re working with the United States very closely about finding countries that will seek to realize what they always say, that they wanted to give the Palestinians a better future. I think we’re getting close to finding several countries.“

Trump echoed Netanyahu’s optimism, saying, “We’ve had great cooperation from … surrounding countries, great cooperation from every single one of them. So something good will happen.”

Though the implementation phase is apparently now imminent, the idea of corralling all of Gaza’s population into Rafah and then moving them out has been circulating since the very beginning of Israel’s response to the Hamas invasion of Oct 7 2023. A Ministry of Intelligence policy paper dated Oct 10 2023 and obtained by +972 Magazine that same month recommended herding Gaza’s entire 2.2 million residents south and then forcing them into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

More recently, as Dave DeCamp notes at Antiwar.com, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich outlined a forcible displacement scheme in candid and grim terms that belie Netanyahu’s characterization of coming emigration as “voluntary.” In May, he boasted to attendees of a West Bank settlement conference that Palestinians will have no choice but to abandon a land rendered uninhabitable by the IDF:

“Within a few months…Gaza will be totally destroyed. The Gazan citizens will be concentrated in the south. They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places.”

Where, exactly, will those “other places” be? (Israel Defense Minister Unveils Plan for 'Concentration Camp' in Gaza.)

How is this not diabolically monstrous as a veritable reenactment of what the Third Reich did to many Jews?

How will this not end badly for those who wind up being “relocated” against their will to Rafah?

Not to be outdone by the Zionists, the faithful Mohammedan zealots who now govern Syria are imposing their own Christophobia upon Catholics and Orthodox in a brutal manner that is not receiving the attention that it deserves:

Anti-Christian violence has continued in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime, according to new details released by the U.S. government.

Despite the new government promising Christians they would have freedom of religious practice, anti-Christian violence has continued in Syria over the past number of months.

A new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) documents the daily reality for Christians and Muslims in Syria after the new Islamic regime took power in Syria late in 2024. The government is currently led by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, after having led the revolt against the Assad regime in December and the takeover of the country by his Islamist militants.

Al-Sharaa, formerly known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, founded the jihadist Al-Nusra Front in 2012 in opposition to Assad’s government. In 2017, he merged Al-Nusra with other groups to form the Islamist paramilitary organization Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and served as its leader until January 29, 2025. The U.S. State Department and international bodies officially listed Al-Sharaa as a terrorist organization.

The U.S. report highlights that “both religious freedom conditions in Syria and related U.S. foreign policy—including President Donald J. Trump’s May announcement to lift sanctions on Syria—remain subject to rapid change.”

Al-Sharaa has attested to forming a society tolerant of religious beliefs and for a “comprehensive” government which would represent “all Syrians, including religious and ethnic minorities.”

Notwithstanding this, the USCIRF report notes that “religious freedom remains under threat from a variety of actors, including loyalists to the transitional authorities, who have targeted civilians with mass sectarian attacks.”

This is linked particularly to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formally identified by the U.S. as a terrorist group.

Some reports shared online about attacks against Christians and other religious minorities carried out by HTS late last year “were inaccurate or even fabricated,” the report documents, suggesting a motive of local actors seeking to cause “sectarian strife or characterizing minorities as hostile to Syria’s new perceived liberators.”

But other attacks the USCIRF affirmed were real. These ranged from foiled attacks, to “full-blown sectarian massacres” of Alawi Arabs.

Most recently, a suicide bombing attack took place in Damascus last month where a bomber killed over up to 30 people at a Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church. The attack was believed to have been carried out by men linked to Islamic State, and – as attested to by Reuters and by eyewitnesses to the attack – was the work of two attackers.

The USCIRF praised the Syrian government for intervening swiftly and cited this as an example of the government appearing to fulfill its promise of tolerating religious diversity.

Nevertheless, the U.S. commission also documented areas of concern at the government level. Legislation promulgated in the spring by al-Sharaa only allowed the toleration of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, leading the USCIRF to speculate about future crackdowns on minority groups. This law also made Islamic law the official legislation of the nation, highlighting fears by religious freedom advocates that the imposition of Sharia law will become widespread against Christians.

Father Peter Fuchs told LifeSite’s Andreas Wailzer:

What was previously unthinkable in Syria is now also happening in schools: the children have to recite Koran verses, including the Christian children. And if the Christian children say, “We don’t want to do that because we are Christians,” then the principal threatens to expel the children from school.

But particularly notable in the USCIRF report was the fact that HTS members occupy “roles within the interim administration, with potentially concerning implications for religious freedom,” including in the military and intelligence field in Syria.

In response to the continued actions against Christians and others in Syria, the USCIRF urged the U.S. government to make religious freedom a condition for the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria, along with executing justice against those who persecute minorities in the nation.

Pope Leo XIV recently urged Christians in the Middle East to remain in their homeland, but with such attacks, continuing the presence of the Christian community in the region remains highly volatile.

In latter years, the number of Christians in the Middle East has suffered a significant decline, as attested to by numerous reports and research groups. Persecutions of Christians at the hands of Muslims and Jews have been documented, especially as conflicts in the Holy Land region have drastically escalated in recent years.

Advocacy group “persecution.org” wrote last year that “places such as Iraq, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, and, to a lesser degree, Egypt and Lebanon have seen a continuation of the historic exodus of Christians during the past decade alone. The decline is especially significant when one considers that these communities are among the oldest Christian communities in the world.”

The Christian population of Iraq and Syria has “shrunk by somewhere between 75% to 85% in the past 20 years, and Palestine’s Christian community is finding itself at threat, highlighted by Gaza’s Christians suffering near extinction in the latest Israeli-Palestinian war,” the group reported. (US gov't must take action against anti-Christian violence in Syria: report.)

As will be noted near the end of this commentary, no amount of “ecumenical outreach” can end this madness. All non-Catholics, including the conciliar revolutionaries themselves, must be converted to the true Faith.

Alas, as bad as the situations in Syria and Gaza are, most of the mainslime media are not reporting on the attacks being undertaken by illegal Israeli squatters in the West Bank who have taken to destroying Catholic and Orthodox shrines, burning the property of Christian landowners, and terrorizing entire families about which Donald John Trump has said not one word:

Priests of the churches in Tabyeh, the last fully Christian town left in the West Bank, have implored help from “international actors” amid a destructive siege by Israeli settlers.

“Israeli settlers are torching holy sites, destroying farmland, and terrorizing families. The priests of Taybeh are crying out for help. The world must hear them — and act,” human rights activist Jason Jones urged on Tuesday.

He shared to X a copy of a statement from priests of the Greek Orthodox Church, Latin Church, and Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Tabyeh, which the Gospel of John (11:54) refers to as “Ephraim” – the place Jesus withdrew to before his passion. The priests described the “ongoing and grave series of attacks” against the Christian town.

“On Monday, July 7, 2025, settlers deliberately set fire near the towns’ cemetery and the historic Church of St. George (Al-Khadr), dating back to the 5th century — one of the oldest religious landmarks in Palestine,” the priests shared, adding that it was only because of the swift response of local residents and firefighters that the damage was not “far more catastrophic.”

The priests went on to tell how settlers have been routinely grazing their cattle in Tabyeh’s agricultural lands, “including family-owned fields” and areas near homes, without being stopped by authorities. In doing so, they “cause direct harm to olive trees — a vital source of livelihood for the people of Tabyeh — and prevent farmers from accessing and cultivating their land,” they noted.

Thus, the eastern part of the town “has effectively become an open target for illegal settlement outposts that expand quietly under military protection,” which “serve as a base for further assaults on the land and its people.”

“We cannot remain silent in the face of these relentless attacks that threaten our very existence on this land,” the priests declared. They then called upon “local and international actors — especially consuls, ambassadors, and church representatives,” to come to the aid of the town by:

  • Immediately investigating the “ongoing assaults on property, agricultural land, and holy sites,” including arson.
  • “Applying diplomatic pressure on the occupying authorities to halt settler actions and prevent them from entering or grazing in Taybeh’s lands.”
  • Send “international and church delegations” to observe firsthand the ongoing damages, and document them.
  • Support the people of Tabyeh “through economic and agricultural initiatives,” and legal help.

Father Bahar Fawadleh, parish priest of the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Taybeh, located east of Ramallah, recently lamented, “We do not live in peace but in daily fear and siege.”

The aggressions by Israeli settlers against the town’s citizens, which include arson attacks upon crops and theft of equipment, are recognized by the Christian locals “as part of a systematic effort to strangle them economically and push them out,” the priest explained.

Religious Zionist settler violence common in Israeli occupied West Bank

Such violence perpetrated by these terrorist settlers is in no way rare in the West Bank. During the calendar year of 2024, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) logged about 1,420 incidents of Israeli settler violence. “These incidents include settlers reportedly killing five Palestinians, including a child, and injuring 360 other Palestinians, including 35 children, and vandalising more than 26,100 Palestinian-owned trees.”

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Amnesty International described these attacks as “part of a decades long state-backed campaign to dispossess, displace and oppress Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, under Israel’s system of apartheid.”

“Israeli forces have a track record of enabling settler violence and it is outrageous that once again Israeli forces stood by and in some cases took part in these brutal attacks,” an April 2024 report states.

Colonial ‘settlers’ espouse ideology of Jewish supremacy, ethnic cleansing, building of third Temple

Jewish “settlers” in the West Bank are most often associated with the influential international heresy of religious Zionism which embraces an ideology of radical Jewish supremacy and thus a justification for the horrendous violent crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people as a means of taking over the Holy Land and building an exclusive Jewish ethno-state.

With the takeover of the land complete they aim to build a third temple for animal sacrifice in Jerusalem and welcome their Moshiach (Messiah) of whom their expectations share a close alignment with what Catholic authorities expect from the Antichrist. And from Jerusalem, these religious Zionists anticipate this figure to subject all other peoples under Noahide Laws, vanquishing Christianity as “idolatry,” and even executing the death penalty against Christians for this supposed crime.

The illegal settler communities also enjoy indirect financial support from billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars which support Israel’s military forces and thus serve to assist settlers and settlements to effectively expand in the West Bank. Private American interests also provide significant funds to further develop illegal settlements, paramilitary groups and IDF units which operate in Gaza and the West Bank as well.

In July 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s 58-year military occupation of internationally recognized Palestinian territory was illegal under international law. The United Nations General Assembly followed up on this ruling in September, overwhelmingly passing a resolution demanding Israel end its illegal occupation of these territories, including the evacuation of their settlements on the West Bank, within 12 months.

The unanimous and constant voices of the Catholic and Orthodox bishops in the region have characterized Israel’s illegal occupation of these Palestinian territories as the “root” aggression of the conflict, an ongoing “sin” that must be resisted and remedied should there be any hope of peace in the region. (Priests in the last fully Christian town in the West Bank beg for help amid siege.)

It must be remembered that Benjamin Netanyahu’s late father, Benzion Netanyahu, wrote several books, including The Marranos in Spain, about how Catholics had “persecuted” Jews in the Middle Ages, specifically citing the Spanish Inquisition in The Origins of the Inquisition in Spain, which was an effort, in part, to ferret out false Jewish converts to Catholicism, including those who had become bishops and priests, who wanted to use their influence within the Church to destroy Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals. The elder Netanyahu went to far as to imply that the Crucifix itself has always been a sign of antisemitism, although he was careful not to state this explicitly.

Benzion Netanyahu’s Christophobic is shared by his shore, Benjamin Netanyahu, and this hatred of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Divine Redeemer of the human race, has been taught for decades by Talmudic rabbis in Zionist institutions of mind control (schools, military training, centers of rabbinical studies, etc.), thus fomenting the rabid hatred of zealous Zionists for Christians, who are also deemed as subhumans and idolater, and thus the “justification” for attacks upon them, their shrines, and their property.

It is sadly the case, however, that such attacks will continue in perpetuity as long as the lords of conciliarism, no matter their well-meaning and various appeals for the end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and for the protection of Christians in the West Bank against the assaults of the illegal Israeli settlers, do not seek with urgency the conversion of all non-Catholics in the Holy Land, including Jews and Mohammedans, to the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order.

Pleas, such as one that are discussed in the report below, made by various conciliar and Orthodox representatives must fail until such time as the conciliar revolutionaries themselves are converted to the true Faith and after the restoration of a true pope of the Throne of Saint Peter in a miraculous manner as prophesied by numerous mystics:

Top church leaders and diplomats have called on Israeli settlers to be held accountable during a visit to the predominantly Christian town of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, after settlers intensified attacks on the area in recent weeks.

Representatives from more than 20 countries including the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Japan, Jordan, and the European Union, were among the delegates who visited the village in the West Bank on Monday.

Speaking in Taybeh, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III and Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa denounced an incident last week when settlers set fires near the community’s church.

They said that Israeli authorities failed to respond to emergency calls for help from the Palestinian community.

In a separate statement, the patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem demanded an investigation into the incident and called for the settlers to be held accountable by the Israeli authorities, “who facilitate and enable their presence around Taybeh”.

The church leaders also said that settlers had brought their cattle to graze on Palestinian lands in the area, set fire to several homes last month, and put up a sign reading “there is no future for you here”.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Doha, said church leaders have been calling this a “systemic and targeted attack” against Christians.

“About 50,000 of them live in the occupied West Bank, a small but very proud minority,” Ibrahim said. “They also consider themselves under attack, not just because they’re Christians but because they’re Palestinians.”

The church has been trying for years to “enhance the steadfastness of the Christian community in Palestine”, Ibrahim said.

We’ve been seeing how Israeli settlers have been pushing them out of their lands, out of their homes.”

Settlers, who are often armed, are backed by Israeli army soldiers and regularly carry out attacks against Palestinians, their lands, and property. Several rights groups have documented repeated instances where Israeli settlers in the West Bank ransack Palestinian neighbourhoods and towns, burning homes and vehicles.

Assaults have grown in scale and intensity since Israel’s brutal war on Gaza began in October 2023. These assaults also include large-scale incursions by Israeli forces into Palestinian towns and cities across the West Bank that have killed hundreds of Palestinians and displaced tens of thousands.

Pizzaballa, the top Catholic cleric in Jerusalem, said he believed the West Bank was becoming a lawless area.

“The only law [in the West Bank] is that of power, of those who have the force, not the law. We must work for the law to return to this part of the country, so anyone can appeal to the law to enforce their rights,” Pizzaballa told reporters.

He and Theophilos prayed together at the Church of St George, whose religious site dates back centuries, adjacent to the area where settlers ignited the fires.

The visit comes as Palestinians report a new surge of settler violence.

On Monday, Israeli settlers and soldiers launched several more attacks across the West Bank, including in Bethlehem, where settlers uprooted hundreds of olive trees in al-Maniya village, southeast of the city, and Israeli authorities demolished a four-storey residential building.

The head of the al-Maniya village council, Zayed Kawazba, told Wafa news agency that a group of settlers stormed al-Qarn in the centre of al-Maniya, set up four tents and uprooted approximately 1,500 olive saplings belonging to families from the al-Motawer and Jabarin clans.

A day earlier, hundreds descended on the village of Al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya, south of Taybeh, for the funeral of two young men killed during a settler attack on Friday.

The occupied West Bank is home to more than three million Palestinians who live under harsh Israeli military rule, with the Palestinian Authority governing in limited areas separated from each other by a myriad of Israeli checkpoints.

Israel has so far built more than 100 settlements across the West Bank, which are home to about 500,000 settlers who live illegally on private Palestinian land. (Church leaders, diplomats, condemn Israeli settler violence in West Bank.)

Ecumenical “prayer” is no way to win the favor of the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity, but gone are the days when men such Fathers Alphonse-Marie and Theodore Ratisbonne work for the conversion of Jews to the true Faith:

Meanwhile, his brother, Father Theodore, had left for Rome. Received by Pope Gregory XVI, he told him the desire that haunted him: “Oh, how happy I would be if one day I was told: Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Mt. 10:6).” This is the origin of the initiatives Father Theodore launched: the Catechumenate of the Children of Israel, the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, and then, in 1847, the Congregation of Priests of Our Lady of Sion. Marie-Alphonse closely followed his brother’s initiatives, helping as much as obedience permitted. He soon expressed his desire to leave the Society of Jesus to join him. In December 1852, Father Marie-Alphonse was released from his temporary vows by Very Reverend Father Roothan, and entered the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race … and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ (Rom. 9:3, 5)—this was the wish of the two brothers. Theodore died in Paris on January 7, 1884, and Marie-Alphonse in Jerusalem, the following May 6th. His last words, “God is my witness that I offer my life for the salvation of Israel,” echo the words of Saint Paul: My heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved (ibid., 10:1).

May his sensational conversion, effected by the miraculous medal, encourage us to see in recourse to Mary Immaculate a powerful bastion against the attacks of the devil, and the chief means of winning souls for God. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee! (Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne.)

We need to pray to Fathers Marie-Alphonse and Theodore Ratisbonne for the conversion of the Jews and to Saint Francis of Assisi, who attempted to convert Sultan Malik al-Kamil in the Holy Land during the Fifth Crusade in 1219, for the conversion of the Mohammedans:

An early font presents the following account of the discourse of the Franciscans: "If you do not wish to believe," said the two friars, "we will commend your soul to God because we declare that if you die while holding to your law, you will be lost; God will not accept your soul. For this reason we have come to you." They added that they would demonstrate to the Sultan's wisest counselors the truth of Christianity, before which Mohammed's law counted for nothing. In answer to this challenge, and in order to confute the teaching of the two missionaries, the Sultan called in the religious advisers, the imams. However, they refused to dispute with the Christians and instead insisted that they be killed, in accordance with Islamic law.

But the Sultan, captivated by the speech of the two Franciscans, and by their sincere concern for his own salvation, ignored the demand of his courtiers. Instead, al-Kamil listened willingly to Francis, permitting him great liberty in his preaching. He told his imams that beheading the friars would be an unjust recompense for their efforts, since they had arrived with the praiseworthy intention of seeking his personal salvation. To Francis he said: "I am going to go counter to what my religious advisers demand and will not cut off your heads . . . you have risked your own lives in order to save my soul." (Frank M. Rega, St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of the Muslims, TAN Books and Publishers, 2007, pp. 60-61.)

There is no evidence that Sultan converted, but Saint Francis of Assisi did his duty, has did Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P., whose preaching did convert thousands upon thousands of Jews and Mohammedans to the true Faith on the Iberian Peninsula and in southern France at the end of the Fourteenth and the beginning of the Fifteenth Centuries:

The Mahometans, like the Jews, were spread throughout different parts of Spain. In proportion as the noble-hearted Spaniards recovered possession of their provinces which had been subjugated by Saracen invasion, they re-established Christianity in all its rights, and favored by every means in their power the conversion of the followers of Mahomet, who dwelt in the country. There were many, however, who resisted this influence. Like the Jews, they were possessed of wealth and industry; it was necessary, therefore, to deal gently with them. St. Vincent labored with all his might to reclaim them from their unclean errors; he spared neither suffering nor fatigue to lead them to the saving waters of baptism. And to this end, wherever he preached he compelled the Mahometans, by the king's order, to be present at his discourses, reserving for them, as in the case of the Jews, the most convenient places.

But why constrain such people to hear him, since the law of Mahomet especially forbids his disciples to listen to Christian sermons? "This," said the Saint, "is one of the wicked artifices of this Antichrist, by which he directly closes the door of salvation to his followers. The Divine Word is the first condition of the success of the Gospel. He who hears it is easily drawn as by a kind of necessity to embrace the holy faith, provided it be announced with becoming dignity."

The Saracen King of Grenada, Mahomet Aben-Baha, moved by the renown of his miracles, was desirous to see St. Vincent, and to afford him liberty to preach in his kingdom. He therefore sent ambassadors to him, as to a prince, who informed him that he would have unrestricted license to announce the Gospel throughout the kingdom of Grenada. The Saint was then in the neighborhood of Genoa, in Italy. He forthwith set out on foot to Marseilles, where a vessel was placed at his service. A favorable wind soon brought him to the port of Andalusia. On the morning following his arrival at Grenada, St. Vincent commenced a course of sermons in presence of the king, his whole court, and innumerable people. The Mahometans, unaccustomed to hear discourses addressed to a great multitude, were filled with astonishment and admiration. Such was the effect of his preaching that, after three sermons, eighteen thousand Moors were converted to the Christian faith. St. Vincent promised himself an abundant harvest in this new field of labour; but the enemy of mankind sought to stifle its growth by sowing therein the seeds of discord.

Aben-Baha himself, with his whole court, had resolved to receive baptism; but the chiefs of the Mussulman superstition, determining at any cost to impede so great a good, menaced him with revolt, civil war, and the subversion of his throne. "If you embrace the Gospel," said they, "your subjects who believe in the Koran will never consent to be ruled by a prince who has abjured the law of Mahomet to become a Christian." Aben-Baha feared to lose a perishable crown of the earth. Dismayed by the threats of those fanatics, he called St. Vincent to him, and bade him depart from his kingdom, assuring him of his own personal esteem of him. "Return," said he, "into the countries of the Christians, and do so speedily, lest you oblige me to have recourse to violent measures against you. I should do it with regret, but I cannot allow you to remain." The Saint would gladly have exposed himself to persecution and death; the thought of martyrdom filled him with joy; but he was unwilling to excite the anger of the Mussulmans against the new converts, or to expose them to the danger of apostasy.

He, therefore, quitted the kingdom of Grenada, beseeching God to destroy in that country the reign of the crescent, and to establish in its stead that of the glorious Cross. A century later and the desires of the Saint were accomplished. Grenada was in its turn conquered, and the barbarous Mussulman was driven back to the shores of Africa. We may not unreasonably suppose that the band of converts formed by our Saint increased as years rolled by, and that when the missionaries of the Gospel arrived in that country they would find the hearts of its people better disposed to embrace the great truths of Christianity.

St. Vincent's zeal did not slacken in consequence of these accidents. Some time later, when an opportunity occurred to him, he resolved to go into Africa to preach to the people of Mauritania and to the Arabs of the Desert; but circumstances independent of his own will interfered with the accomplishment of this grand project. He, however, indemnified himself by laboring with renewed ardor for the conversion of the Mussulmans who were established in Christian countries. Ranzano, one of the Saint's biographers, relates that eighty thousand of those infidels were brought to the true faith. This is a high figure, and far exceeds the number given by Father Teoli, whose account appears to be more reliable, since in comparing the number of Jewish conversions with that of the Mahometans, the latter is found to be considerably less.

But to resume the thread of our narrative. St. Vincent was truly another St. Paul, sent by God to bring back to the faith of Christ a multitude of Jews and Mahometans, to convert innumerable sinners, and to harmonise the faithful of every nation and condition of life in the most perfect bonds of Christian fellowship. We are thus able to see at a glance the general effect of the miraculous apostolate which he received from Christ Himself at Avignon. The Saint was not afraid to affirm it with his own lips. In one of his sermons which he preached in Castile, in the year 1411, we read thus: "The end of the world cannot be far distant, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Has not our Lord Himself said that the bearing of the fig-tree foreshadows the coming summer? Behold, then, the fig-tree of the Christian people. Each day records its reconciliations, and we witness souls forgetting and forgiving the greatest injuries. The delicate, sensual, and vicious do penance. Obstinate sinners are converted, and approach frequently the Sacraments. Nor is the Jewish fig-tree any longer barren; for we see it daily producing its abundant and choicest fruits in every city in Spain." He might have added heretics and Mussulmans likewise. Truly, then, St. Vincent exercised in the Church an apostolate such as never was witnessed since the establishment of the Gospel. (Reverend Father Andrew Pradel, O.P., St. Vincent Ferrer, of the Order of Preachers: His life, spiritual teaching, and practical devotion, tr, from the French by Reverend Father T.A. Dixon, O. Praed., and published by R. Washbourne, 18 Paternoster Row, London, 1875.)

Although perhaps quite redundant by now, I will never cease reminding the readers of this site that the refusal of the conciliar revolutionaries to seek the conversion of non-Catholics, including Jews and Mohammedans, to Catholicism is one of the reasons why warfare and hatred in the Middle East continue unabated as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself told the Jews of His own time that there will never be peace until one and all exclaim:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus, Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

May our Rosaries today, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, the Commemoration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, help plant a few seeds for the conversion of souls to the true Faith and in reparation for our own sins so that, just as Saint Elias destroyed the false idols of Baal on Mount Carmel, so will Our Lady destroy all heresies as we shield ourselves with her Brown Scapular and use the weapon that is her Most Holy Rosary.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.