Picking a Pope

 

I’m not religious but I do feel some excitement (especially after watching that movie called “The Conclave” on Netflix during the past weekend) that tomorrow 122 wee pompous pious white caped funny hat wearing horses will line up at the starting gate of what is know as the conclave within the Sistine chapel where like a sequestered jury they will quibble and squabble then elect a new Pope.  

Will the next big man be a progressive, a liberal or follow the conservative direction? Maybe the papacy will return to its pizza and pasta guzzling roots, perhaps another European or South American just like we departed Frankie Boy…or an Asian or African? 

Whoever wins in the square ring of the Sistine during the follow days I hope they don’t kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party like the last one and that the Sino-Vatican agreement gets thrown in the stove with the final ballot papers.

The human rights crisis in China was conspicuous by its absence from the dearly deid wee bar of soap Frankie’s prayers and reflections during his term although he did like to voice the more fashionable concerns such as Gaza, Sudan and Yemen… yet never heard him send up his public prayers and messages about atrocities in Tibet, the crackdown in Hong Kong or the Muslim Uyghurs who are facing true genocide (pro-Palestine supporters may need to look up the word “Genocide” is a dictionary) let alone any outcry about the Catholic clergy in China including Bishop James Su Zhimin who disappeared 27 years ago and is believed to be held in a Chinese detention centre.

There are four Brits in the running but unfortunately none as Scottish since our very own Eminence Keith O'Brien resigned from his public role in the Catholic Church in 2013 for his “fondness” of children then was recalled to Planet Ork in 2018.

Let’s watch out for Pietro Parolin of Italy, Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle and Luis Antonio Tangle of the Philippines…don’t know what the odds are but one of these wee ponies are perhaps worth a flutter each way.

Now I’m no expert but my money is on Pietro Parolin to get his furry cassocked arse first over the finish line …so let’s see…let the battle commence!! 

The Ignorant and Disingenuous Parade

These “Stop the Genocide” protests recently in Scotland (and all over the world) really boils my blood.  Are these “protesters really so ignorant not to know what genocide really is or are they just being disingenuous to propagate antisemitism? 

When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the population of Gaza was around 1.3 million. Today it is more than two million, with a male life expectancy higher than in parts of Scotland. During this same period, the Palestinian population in the West Bank grew by a million. Either the Israelis weren’t committing genocide, or they tried to commit genocide but are uniquely bad at it…I believe in the prior because if the Israelis really wanted to commit genocide they have the weaponry and technology.

If you really want to know what real genocide is that you have to look at what’s in the charter of the governing body of Hamas, the party which the Palestinians elected, a charter which promises the intent to murder every Jew!! Basically a new holocaust!! This is what the slogan "From the River to the Sea" really means, when you hold up a placard demanding "Intifada" you are no better than the Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany during World War Two.

The Nazis ruled Germany as a one-party, totalitarian dictatorship from 1933 to 1945. The Party used its power to persecute Jews. During World War II, Nazi propaganda portrayed “the Jews” as Germany's true enemy and depicted their destruction as necessary for the Germans' survival, a true intent of genocide just as do Hamas.  

Did we get our knickers in a twist at the bombing of Dresden when 25,000 German civilians died?  

Unfortunately the collateral of civilian casualties are a fact of war but it has always been Hamas’s intent not to distinct between civilians and military targets, they fire missiles indiscriminately at Tel Aviv, on Oct 7th Hamas (and not forgetting other Palestinian militant groups) coordinated a massacre on Jews including storming a peace concert and civilian populated kibbutzs.

Hamas fire their rockets from the roofs of schools and hospitals and build their command centres under such public buildings. 

Totally opposite to Hamas never before in the history of warfare has a force attempted to limit civilian casualties as much as Israel had done. 

Their Air Force has dropped leaflets over Gaza that warn civilians to avoid being present in the vicinity of Hamas operatives. These leaflets urge civilians to move away from Hamas targets, making clear Israel’s intention to minimize civilian casualties (instructions which Hamas command their own civilians to ignore or execute them if they attempt to flee the areas)

They also do something called “Roof knocking where the Israeli air force targets a building with a loud but non-lethal bomb that warns civilians that they are in the vicinity of a weapons cache or other target. This method is used to allow all residents to leave the area before the IDF targets the site with live ammunition.

The IDF also makes phone calls and sends text messages to civilians residing in buildings designated for attack warning them to get out the area…in what war have are ever heard such concern to limit civilian casualties?

Yet so many “useful idiots” want to paint Israel as the bad guys!! 

Across in the states Trump has the right idea deporting these terrorists supporting “activists”, it’s time our government here in the U.K. treats these terrorist supporters similarly…but they’d be up in arms about their “human rights”, perhaps they should go and volunteer their efforts in Gaza and see how their human rights are honoured by the common Palestinians!! 

Oh so how easy it is to act like a proxy for Iran from as far away as Scotland! 

"Shame" parades of antisemitic hate!!