Feb 17, 2011

Two news items that shock the brain...

 



Republican Presidential Candidates Seek Jewish Backing In Israel 
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-israel-gop-20110205,0,7987345.story 

Though the U.S. presidential primaries are still a year from now, a different sort of contest is underway in Israel . Beginning Saturday, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour will be the third potential GOP presidential candidate to visit the Jewish state since the first of the year, and the second during the protests in neighboring Egypt . Barbour will arrive on the heels of Mike Huckabee, who spent much of the week touring the country, and Mitt Romney, who swung through in January. And like Romney and Huckabee, Barbour is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour some holy sites. 


Jewish Group Praises Catholics For Removing `Holocaust' From Bible 
JTA 
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/02/08/2742894/catholics-decision-to-remove-word-holocaust-praised 

A Holocaust survivors' organization praised the Catholic Church for changing a new English translation of the Bible to eliminate the word "holocaust." A statement by Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, issued Monday responsed to the deletion of "holocaust," with a small h, and its replacement by "burnt offerings" in The New American Bible Revised Edition to be released on March 9

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Peace.
Michael Santomauro 

What sort of TRUTH is it that crushes the freedom to seek the truth?


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