Dear Pope Francis
I am shocked, profoundly shocked to read in a Sydney newspaper that …
“He will not celebrate a public Mass in the country, but in a first for a visiting pontiff, he will lay flowers at the tomb of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the global Zionist movement.”
Zionism is the movement to take over the WHOLE of historic Palestine for the Israeli people.
Your gesture will be a shameful act of normalising the illegal brutal occupation, the illegal theft of Palestinian land with the expansion of the illegal settlements.
What about your Papal moral and religious responsibility to the Suffering Christ in the evicted Palestinians who weep on the rubble of their demolished homes, farms, uprooted olive groves and livelihoods,
to the Suffering Christ in the ethnic cleansed Palestinian refugees refused their inalienable right of return by Israel,
and to the Suffering Christ in the Palestinian families mourning their murdered martyred children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters..now buried in their martyred homeland ????
You could not do anything worse that this heinous flower-laying except ride in an Israeli Merkava tank and blast the hopes for Palestinian justice.
Please renounce this unworthy act of honouring Herzl.
Sincerely
Dr Vacy Vlazna
Sydney, Australia
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