THE VATICAN AND ISRAEL:
Kortenaar, Henry Ten
and financial disclosures by officeholders; stress on an its prospects in 1976 may not be as bad as they at first official commitment to the rule of law for all offenses, appear. from...
...14, while Henry Kissinger was com- Vernon Mawanga of Zambia...
...Vietnam, defense spending, the SST and various other Taken all together, Senator Percy's recommendations crucial issues, what would be the reaction of independent will be seen by many Republicans as plain horse sense...
...reminiscent of the saw about the two housewives arguing Revenues to keep the budget afloat, it should be over the back fence-they disagree because they're noted, still come from you and me...
...and liberal voters to his candidacy...
...More antiseptically the most sincere of intentions, the federal budget may stated, the federal budget is "both a statement of our be, often is, statistically misleading...
...places, and it was also a well known fact that it had The old project, which had been dormant for almost never protested against the prohibition for Jews (one of two decades, was at once revived by Pope Paul, who, "the three monotheistic religions" the Vatican had so even before the ceasefire, demanded the internationaliza- much at heart) to visit the Western Wall of the Temple, tion of the city...
...Nobody had forgotten how easily the Church The situation changed again radically in 1967, when had adapted to the Jordanian occupation of the holy the whole of Jerusalem was occupied by Israeli forces...
...Fiscal year 1975 arguing from different premises...
...For example, headCommonweal: 5...
...In the follow- The diplomatic activity of the Vatican after the Yom ing years the Pope referred to the problem in more cau- Kippur War shows that its aims are still unchanged...
...In short, a realistic facing ordained candidate...
...WASHINGTON REPORT THE REALITY OF THE BUDGET The federal budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 national objectives and a plan for achieving them," as is now before the Congress-all 1071 pages of it-and the opening sentence of the budget summary states...
...met by a firm refusal of the government...
...She must not was immediately contradicted by Alessandrini, who mini- cause scandal to the whole world...
...But what if the party manages the Democrats do, therefore, as well as on Republican to clear its skirts of the dirt of Watergate and create efforts to cleanse their own house...
...Msgr...
...This will it is too early to write off GOP chances for 1976 entirely...
...tration-is that it is not only an economic but a political And, as to where it goes, 29 percent will be spent for document...
...can had always opposed any such plans on the strength The internationalization of Jerusalem had been a conof the Concordat, which obliges the Italian government stant goal of Vatican diplomacy since the declining years to ban anything detrimental to the sacred character of of the Ottoman Empire, but especially since the rise of the city (on the same ground the police once forbade Zionism had made it likely that one day the city might the Roman performances of Hochhuth's play The Depu- fall into the hands of the Jews...
...During the than before...
...Francois Delpech wrote: "The remarkable event, for the Vatican had never recognized role of the Church is not to defend rights, but to live the State of Israel, and no head of the Israeli govern- the Word of God and to witness to it...
...The little present had probably been intended for the two World Wars, the project had been close to sucthe Egyptian foreign minister Ismail Fahmi, who was ceeding, but the idea of setting up an international consupposed to visit Rome early this year, but Kissinger's trol board had to be abandoned, when the Vatican rerapid progress made it advisable to anticipate the an- jected the British condition of a Protestant chairman...
...offended...
...Given Senator Jackson's stance on up to the sins that led to the present GOP plight...
...A few years ago, in an article on Jerusalem and On Jan...
...But President James Green of Liberia and Foreign Minister after the annexation of the Old City by Jordan, Gori 8 March 1974: 4 (who meanwhile had become Patriarch of Jerusalem) Jerusalem...
...prejudices, private-sector pressures, campaign commit- One other fact to keep in mind is that, even with ments and post-election compromises...
...This hasty intervention, at a moment nor against the looting of their synagogues and cemewhen the government had already announced its inten- teries...
...It disputes over its orientation and apportionments are is, of course, both more and less than that...
...It is shot through with ambitions, tendencies, activities labeled "national defense...
...stress on an its prospects in 1976 may not be as bad as they at first official commitment to the rule of law for all offenses, appear...
...But she must reherself spoke rightly of a "historical occasion," but she main poor...
...an end to the kind pose too that GOP leaders have sense enough not to of duplicity and secrecy in government that mired us get locked in with Vice President Ford as their prein Vietnam and Watergate...
...Pio Laghi, the Apostolic Delegate same period, however, the Osservatore Romano contin- in Jerusalem, has certainly had the most unpleasant job ued to insist on the necessity of internationalizing Jeru- of his life, when on Jan...
...If the Republican man were Senator had decided not to seek reelection next time around- Percy or someone like him, many such voters might even a good indication of their conviction that popular re- find him preferable to Senator Jackson and cast a Resentment directed at the President extends to other mem- publican vote, Watergate or no...
...She must not aim at power...
...nouncement, as a signal of the Vatican's continued After 1947 it became increasingly unrealistic, as it was friendly feelings towards the Arabs and of its interest clear that internationalization would not satisfy the aspiin another Holy City: Jerusalem...
...It is quite normal ment had ever been received by the Pope...
...Much depends on what bers of his political party...
...take some doing, of course, but if the GOP succeeds in While they still have a chance of shedding the Nixonthis, by following the lead of men like Senator Percy, Watergate image, the Republicans are down but not out...
...rations of either Israel or the Arabs...
...22, Jerusalem had been forcefully upheld by Pius XII, who dedicated two enthe topic of an unprecedented meeting in the papal cyclicals to the subject, and by the majority of Palestipalace, where Paul VI received Emperor Haile Selassie nian Catholics, led by the Franciscan Custodian Alberto of Ethiopia, President Gaafar Numeiri of Sudan, Vice Gori, unwaveringly hostile to the Zionist claims...
...estimates are that individual income taxes will account The obvious premise underlying the budget-be it for 42 percent of revenues for that year...
...To his unusual visitors the muting between Cairo and Tel Aviv, the Vatican made Pope explained his project for the future of Jerusalem its own modest move in the Middle Eastern game...
...Until then, the Vati- U.N...
...from mugging to Watergating...
...He pointed out in the Middle East, the danger of scandal is greater that the Prime Minister had not been invited, that the than ever...
...2 he carried out the instrucsalem and published periodic attacks on the Israeli tion to explain the Vatican position to the Israeli governauthorities for the "Judaization" of the city...
...At one time, between ty...
...Nevertheless it was One month earlier, on Dec...
...opposi- not run in 1976 and that presently front-running Senator tion to "big brother intervention in our daily lives" by Henry Jackson wins the Democratic nomination...
...which consisted in the internationalization of the city Federico Alessandrini, head of the Vatican press office, and its administration by a mixed religious commission, told journalists that the Pope no longer objected to the chaired by a representative of the Catholic Church...
...second largest that drafted by a Democratic or a Republican adminis- source is from corporation income taxes, 16 percent...
...Supwiretapping and secret surveillance...
...disowning the use of Just suppose, for example, that Senator Kennedy does "national security" as a cloak for illegal activities...
...Certainly, however, some distance between itself and the President...
...If the GOP candidate Even before the election to fill Mr...
...Meir reacted with utmost courtesy ("I soon established a friendly modus vivendi and for the certainly did not invade the Vatican," she said mildly), time being the subject of internationalization was quietly but the press and public opinion in Israel felt bitterly dropped...
...Holy See had cordial relations with all Arab countries, HENRY TEN KORTENAAR and particularly insisted on "the native and inalienable (Henry ten Kortenaar is Commonweal's regular correrights of the three monotheistic religions" concerning spondent in Rome...
...The construction of a mosque in Rome (provided, of course, scope of the meeting (which appears to have been sugthat "as for the location and outward dimensions, due gested by King Faisal and President Bourghiba) was to regard would be paid to the special character of Rome invite the African countries to sponsor the plan in the as center of the Catholic Church...
...At a time when mized its importance in what was easily the rudest state- others are making the first serious efforts towards peace ment ever released after an audience...
...Ford's seat, there were Rockefeller or Reagan, the result might be a staywere a growing number of Republican officeholders who at-home standoff...
...15, 1973, Golda Meir visited the Pope-a the Holy Places, Prof...
...Meir that she should desire basic freedom...
...0000000000000 FROM ROME TItZ VATICAN AND ISRAEL' On Monday, Jan...
...Not unnaturally, Rome was accused of anti-Semtion to respect the rights of Christians and Moslems to itism, and the whole long story of old and recent griefs their holy places, was deeply resented in Israel and was against the Church was retold...
...and tious terms, notably in his message to the Islamic con- if the Arabs may now prefer internationalization to the ference of Rabat (1969), when his careful avoidance Israeli administration, there is no reason to suppose that of the word "internationalization" was taken by many to to Israel the Pope's intervention is any more acceptable indicate a change of tactics, if not of policy...
Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 1
