Unholy See

Maybe it is time the Holy See actually started to vet representatives for anti-Semitism bias rather than using it as a litmus to act as emissaries in Israel. Potentially, relations might just improve if representatives from the Vatican didn’t make a point of going around offending their host nation on a regular basis. The Jerusalem Post

Israel's identity as a Jewish state discriminates against non-Jews, the Holy Land's top Roman Catholic clergyman said in a pre-Christmas address on Wednesday. "If there's a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against," Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah told reporters at the annual press conference he holds in Jerusalem before the Christian holiday.

In his address, which he read in Arabic and English, Sabbah said Israel should abandon its Jewish character in favor of a "political, normal state for Christians, Muslims and Jews." "This land cannot be exclusive for anyone," he said. With his statements Wednesday, Sabbah, a longtime advocate of the Palestinian cause, waded into a debate that has marred the fledgling peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

Israel has defined itself as the homeland of the Jewish people since it was established in 1948.

Who knows, maybe the Latin Patriarch is just sore that Christians are losing the demographic war to the Jews in the Israeli state.