Israel & the Palestinians
Pfaff, William
packed theaters. What's going on here? Exorcism, of course,...
...after Vatican staff attempted to subdue her...
...Satan is strong enough to possess ten say that the girl displayed "superhuman strength" even thousand people at the same time all over the world...
...Nor does skepticism turned his attention to the young woman, he prayed over seem reflected in the decision of the Archdiocese of Chicago, her, exorcised her, and stayed with her for half an hour...
...nonnegotiable, "unreasonable...
...Exorcism, of course, is an ancient church practice...
...Secretary able epiphany...
...But their parents seem to work Too many choices...
...Neither Barak nor antagonists with one another, and lead disagreement...
...on Israeli television, shaking hands with try is the most powerful in the region, The first is that people in the end will Ariel Sharon...
...This is not an unrea- I to see my family in the Unit- and the things that Americans take for sonable strategy in negotiations...
...and its support from the United States is be reasonable...
...solved...
...My children might not be This trip, I noticed three things that of State Madeleine Albright, Americans so nice had I brought them up here...
...While Barak children are a dime a dozen, and par- satisfied and restless...
...EXORCIST POPE 'CASTS OUT ical origins...
...It was one another on the back, talking about solve themselves...
...or share it, or renounce it in favor of an © 2000, Los Angeles Times Syndicate That is why Sharon's visit to the contested area, meant to affirm Israel's sovereignty over it, proved such a provocation...
...sorship in the peace talks, and must rely WILLIAM PFAFF an the United States to work out a settlement acceptable to the Palestinians and the Arab world...
...Several agreements Raising children in America on secondary issues have nonetheless been held as useful substitutions for the resolution of the ultimate problems...
...killing demonstrators, of water cannons, i baton charges, and new U.S.-developed crowd-incapacitating agents...
...The Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reports that on Sep- But in the aftermath of the pope's actions, the media have tember 6, the pope performed an impromptu exorcism on a been filled with interviews with busy priest exorcists...
...They cer- ularly difficult...
...All four assumptions have proved to gone as far as he could on Jerusalem's This actually happened shortly before be wrong...
...Even if they don't want to The third assumption, related to the unshakable...
...But, as my husband because there is no agreement at all if trip this summer, accompanied by my loves to tell our children, "nothing comes the status of Jerusalem is not settled...
...E closure of Haram al Sharif...
...Everything has been negotiated and tentatively solved except that...
...When the pope This hardly sounds like skepticism...
...The devil is real, he expromptly notified the pope's personal secretary...
...Why should vanilla have been better...
...Skepticism about the alleged physical manifesDEMONS' IN THE VATICAN...
...Jesus himself cast out demons...
...Arafat is weak, depends on U.S...
...During my exist in many places...
...Arafat walked don't exist in the United States...
...fidence building come first...
...At least half the work is done by to this radio station, but maybe that one again using lethal rifle fire and rockets the culture...
...However, the church, especially Guess Who's Back The headlines: "WE'VE NEVER since Vatican II, has recognized that much of what once BEEN BUSIER, SAYS OFFICIAL CHURCH EXORCIST...
...Until that can tions, including his principal sponsors, ligious conviction, they are ultimately be agreed, nothing has really been Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco...
...Arafat has any doubt about that...
...that Barak had gone as far as he could Ehud Barak and the former political ter- Good personal relations and agreement on Jerusalem's status, and that since rorist Yasser Arafat dine at one anoth- at the security level, on the other hand, Arafat wouldn't accept his offer, Arafat er's homes, come out afterward and clap may allow fundamental problems to was responsible for the failure...
...equally true, however, that Arafat had my friend Yasser and my friend Ehud...
...He is accountable for the IslamCommonweal 7 October 20, 2000 is holy places to all of the Islamic na- on Jerusalem by the two sides rest on re- international authority...
...enemies to act like friends...
...On each return visit India is a poor country in some ways about another day...
...I'm not sure I would have The people who chose to watch did so larger and more violent demonstrations, and certainly do not intimidate the Palestinians...
...is playing a song I would like more...
...The though an official exorcism has never been performed there, results were inconclusive...
...sponOF SEVERAL MIN...
...What advantage the Israeli au- either keeping the culture at bay or work- only one TV channel for the entire counthorities see in these measures remains a ing actively to counteract its effect on try...
...on in Chicago that we don't know about...
...I'm listening national reprobation of Israel for once they...
...out because the others would not agree tainly do...
...Is there something going in his twenty-two years as pontiff...
...embody the aspects of American culture and Israelis insisted on security agree- This is not to say that nice children which make raising nice children particments to stop the violence...
...Bishop Gian- ther Gabriel Amorth, seventy-four, president of the Interni Danzi, secretary general of Vatican City, "realized who national Association of Exorcists, is frequently quoted...
...The abundance AmerAt an emergency meeting in Paris on thirteen, and ten-I had an uncomfort- icans enjoy comes at a very high cost...
...Then Barak appeared preemptive compromises), but his counsumptions...
...Should I really accused him of responsibility for the vi- ents receive no special credit or praise have ordered a shot of hazelnut...
...status...
...Only when cratic convention that his firm public The second is that small steps are best reliable security arrangements exist be- commitment to Israel was no obstacle because they accustom people to change, tween the two sides will they be will- to his election since the United States make it seem less threatening, acquaint ing to move on to the heart of their itself is pro-Israel...
...The choice was between on and off...
...He now is politithe Israeli-Palestinian con- the worst in the history of Israeli-Pales- cally weak (a paradoxical incentive to flict has rested on four as- tinian relations...
...was inside the girl" because she was "screaming insults in a Amorth claims to have exorcised more than three thousand cavernous voice" in Italian and "unknown languages...
...And they are not from the National tations of the devil is the rule for Catholics...
...In India, nice American principle leaves people distigate the cause of the crisis...
...October 4, convoked by U.S...
...It was meant to provoke, to under- JO McGOWAN cut any concessions Barak might offer...
...Or does the need This is all fairly ominous, especially since the 1973 for an exorcist have more to do with the condition of the hit, The Exorcist, was rereleased on September 22 to Chicago Bulls since Michael Jordan's retirement...
...Vice-presidential candidate be reasonable, the cost of unreasonable- second, is that security steps and con- Joseph Lieberman said after the Demoness will compel them to accept reason...
...Final-status" problems would be talked ty years...
...have lived in India for twen- the necessary energy...
...mystery...
...He people over the past fifteen years...
...from gunships against rock-throwing American parents spend so much time In India, until very recently, there was civilians...
...On Norwegian initiative and under American sponsorship, Palestinians and Israelis have spent nearly a decade in negotiations leading up to what now is the crucial problem, the status of Jerusalem-site of the holy places of all three great monotheistic religions...
...Prime Minister Barak has not had to he American approach to the recent outbreak of violence, some of be very reasonable...
...Witnesses ists," Amorth says...
...The essential political question-the status of Jerusalem-has thus far been im- TOO MUCH, TOO SOON, TOO OFTEN possible to resolve...
...It was John Paul II's third exorcism to appoint its first full-time exorcist...
...He has had to comISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS promise, to be "reasonable...
...Would olence, Arafat was able to exploit inter- for their children's behavior...
...The ments, since addressing them provokes settlement, the White House spin was aim has been to have the ex-general emotional and "irrational" responses...
...Friends of Israel should acquaint ACME its leaders with the methods of European STORAGE riot police, and the advantages, over CO...
...should be...
...This cherished to an international commission to inves- much harder at it than I do...
...They inevitably provoke even their children...
...It has ed States, I feel as if I am see- granted (like electricity, for one) do not not worked in the Israeli-Palestinian case ing America for the first time...
...Fanineteen-year-old girl in Saint Peter's Square...
...As the claims made Commonweal 8 October 20, 2000...
...That is what Palestinians and What Jews call the Temple Mount is Neither side has proven willing to Israelis have discovered during the rewhat Muslims consider the sacred en- yield sovereignty over the holy places, cent violence...
...His only Peace process flawed from the start leverage is street violence, and violence may escape his control...
...EXORCISTS FIGHT passed for demonic possession had psychological or physVATICAN TO KEEP HOLD OF SATAN...
...This follows The final assumption is that it is use- When President Bill Clinton's latest from the American practice of person- ful to postpone the essential disagree- Camp David talks failed to produce a alizing international relationships...
...Or at least it Enquirer, but London's Independent, Sunday Times, and Times...
...three very nice children-ages sixteen, without a price...
Vol. 127 • October 2000 • No. 18
