Subj : Hamas & Israel
To   : ALL
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Wed Mar 13 2024 04:36 am

Hello Everybody,

Give the Devil his due, as he sure does know how to get his way.
At least, according to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro
Parolin (in reference to Hamas and the IDF in Gaza) -

"The two situations certainly have in common the fact that they have
dangerously widened beyond any acceptable limit, that they cannot be
resolved, that they have repercussions in different countries, and
that no solution can be found without serious negotiation."

Does the Israeli Prime Minister negotiate with terrorists?
Does the leader of Hamas negotiate with terrorists?
Does the President of the United States negotatiate with terrorists?
Does any other leader in the world negoatiate with terrorists?

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Who is to say who is fighting for freedom, and who is fighting
for something else? What exactly qualifies as "freedom? Is it
"freedom of" or "freedom from"? Perhaps it is none of the above,
as freedom could be just another word for nothing left to lose.

Cardinal Parolin claims warring parties should have "the courage
to negotiate, which is never to surrender." His words, not mine.
Of course, he is mimicking what Pope Francis has said the other
day, expressing his own desire for Ukraine to "raise the white
flag" - without expressly telling Ukrainians to surrender their
own land to Mother Russia.

Carinal Parolin then went on to say which side should raise the
white flag first, as "It should be the aggressors who cease fire
first and then the opening of negotiations."

Oh, my. Russia invades Crimea (a part of Ukraine) in 2014. And
then claimed Crimea as part of its own land. With no negotiations
at all with any other country. And then, Russia went back for more,
in 2022, invading more sections of Ukraine. With no negotiations
with any other country.

And still, Cardinal Parolin continues his mantra, claiming "...
negoatiating is not weakness but strength. It's not surrender but
courage."

My, my. The Vatican Secretary of State most certainly is deluded.
So is the Pope, who is always dressed in white, as if to make himself
appear innocent of all that is going on around him.

It doesn't take much research to find out when and where the white
flag principle began. It has been around for centuries, in various
cultures around the world. Easily understood by all what it means.

In fact, the white flag was written into the Geneva Conventions
in the 19th century as the official international symbol of surrender.
So how could the Vatican Secretary of State, and the Pope, not know
the very basic of the meaning of the white flag? It means SURRENDER!

According to the Geneva Conventions, it is illegal to feign surrender
with a white flag. Can anybody in their right mind imagine any warring
party faking it in order to keep themselves from getting slaughtered?

The Pope and all his Swiss Guards must be mad. Truly mad. Stalin
was right when he asked the question - "How many battalions does the
pope have?"

Now we know why the Pope never excommunicated Hitler.

The white flag is still the international standard and it is used
both in combat situations and popular culture. So when did it come
to mean something other than "surrender"?

For Life,
Lee

-- 
You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there's a luxury tax and rich
people can go to jail.

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