Doesn’t this all get kind of old, stale and boring?

Israel makes a stupid mistake on Palm Sunday, a holy day for Christians a week before Easter Sunday, and the world pounces.   One of my correspondents immediately blurted out in an email, in response to Israel’s security forces preventing the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem from accessing the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Sunday: “This was a declaration of war on 1.4 billion Catholics.”  Seriously?

According to news reports the decision was taken for security reasons during a time when Israel is at war with Iran, where destructive missiles from Iran land here every day. Isn’t it possible that the security services were actually acting to protect both the worshippers and the Latin Patriarch?

No doubt there were better ways to have handled the security issues that caused the dustup on Palm Sunday with the head of the Catholic church in Israel.  Nevertheless, cooler heads eventually prevailed and by Monday a joint accommodation between Israel and the Church........

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