{"id":4077,"date":"2009-05-15T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/did-pope-plan-chief-islamic-judge-tamimisnotre-dame-institute-outburst\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:16:44","slug":"did-pope-plan-chief-islamic-judge-tamimisnotre-dame-institute-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/did-pope-plan-chief-islamic-judge-tamimisnotre-dame-institute-outburst\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Pope Plan Chief Islamic Judge Tamimi&#8217;s Notre Dame Institute  Outburst?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, this blog posted a piece about Ashkenaz Chief Rabbi Metzger&#8217;s announcement which indicated that the<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/chief-rabbi-metzger-pope-agreed-vatican-to-stop-missionizing-jews\/\"><strong>&#8216;Pope Agreed Vatican to Stop Missionizing Jews.&#8217; <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And this blog posed the question;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If the Pope walked out of the festivities at Notre Dame Pontifical Institute in Jerusalem after Chief Islamic Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi&#8217;s unscheduled, unsolicited verbal attack upon Israel, just why did<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1242029499952&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Army Radio report that the Pope shook Tamimi&#8217;s hand on the way out?<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Please note that in a subsequent update, the Post no longer cites Army Radio as reporting the handshake, but attributes the fact of the handshake to itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, 3 days later, Israel National News  reports<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/165164\"><strong>Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of Tsfat as saying, in a Parsha HaShevua distributed in many shuls for Shabbos, that the pontiff planned the anti-Israel outburst.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The above-referenced report continues:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The rabbi said Tamimi&#8217;s interruption of the pope&#8217;s opening words was one of a series of petty exercises carried out by the pontiff. The rabbi wrote, &#8220;The warm handshake that the pope gave him afterward showed that <em>Tamimi&#8217;s words were words that pope wanted heard publicly but he could not say.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>So this blog must again ask, why the pope would leave the premises after Tamimi&#8217;s uttered his vicious attack on Israel and yet shake Tamimi&#8217;s hand on the way out?   Oh, the intrigues of hatred, loathing and bias&#8230;      MB <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary; On Tuesday, this blog posted a piece about Ashkenaz Chief Rabbi Metzger&#8217;s announcement which indicated that the &#8216;Pope Agreed Vatican to Stop Missionizing Jews.&#8217; And this blog posed the question; If the Pope walked out of the festivities at Notre Dame Pontifical Institute in Jerusalem after Chief Islamic Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}