The Pope has recognized the PLO and Fatah and their various sub-organizations as equal to Israel in legitimacy.
This is a significant turning point and will require strength in response.
My expectation is that Israel will equivocate. Western-left Jews will do or say nothing, because for the most part they're too "chicken-shit" to challenge Arab and European hatred of the Jewish State and, over the years, have come to accept the "Palestinian narrative" of total victim-hood.
We are, in fact, in the process of being run down by much larger forces.
To European Jews: If you can go, you should go. Europe is hostile territory and things seem to be getting worse. There are only a few places on this planet where Jews can live without significant hostility, for the moment. These places include North America and Australia. They do not include Great Britain.
In Israel, of course, the West has given the signal to Arabs that it's Jew Killing Season.
They honestly think that 300 to 400 million Arabs have every right to go after 6 million Jews because those Jews were mean to the "Palestinians."
To American Jews: Your faith in Barack Obama was misguided from the start, as was mine. One thing that differentiates you from your more thoughtful co-religionists is that some of us were not so ideologically blinkered as to fail to acknowledge that which is before our nose. Now that the Pope has turned on Israel we can expect American Catholic support for the Jewish people to erode, with the full passive-aggressive support of the American President.
To Israeli Jews: Declare the final borders of the State of Israel and fight like hell.
