Relations between the Holy See and Palestine were upgraded in 2015 with the signing of an accord expected to lead to the establishment of a Palestinian embassy in the Vatican at some point this year.
Israel was angered by the accord, which came two years after the Vatican recognized Palestine as a state.
Pope Francis has also called Abbas “an angel of peace.” Abbas is a vicious man who incites violence against Israelis. Abbas has pledged that “not a single Israeli” will exist in a future Palestinian state. Abbas’ advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, who is also the Supreme Shari’ah Judge, has openly proclaimed that Jews represent evil and Israel is “the project of Satan.”
Pope Francis is showing himself to be no friend of the West nor of Israel; he is enabling and supporting jihadis under the umbrella of Christianity and the powers of the Papacy. He has also fully supported and facilitated the hijrah into Europe; he denounced an “epidemic of animosity” against Muslim migrants, despite the surge in Muslim migrant crime, epidemic sexual assaults by Muslim migrants, and jihad attacks by Muslim migrants, with calls for more violence. As Robert Spencer stated:
“Pope Francis would apparently prefer that Europeans and North Americans be murdered in jihad attacks than that Muslim migration be slowed or halted in an attempt to prevent this.”
“Pope Francis to Host Abbas on Saturday”, Breitbart, January 11, 2017:
(AFP) – Pope Francis will grant Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas an audience at the Vatican on Saturday, the Holy See confirmed indirectly Tuesday by announcing arrangements for media coverage of the visit.
It will be the third time Francis has met Abbas following an encounter during the pontiff’s 2014 trip to the Holy Land and the Palestinian leader’s 2015 visit to the Vatican to attend a canonization ceremony for two Palestinian nuns.
Relations between the Holy See and Palestine were upgraded in 2015 with the signing of an accord expected to lead to the establishment of a Palestinian embassy in the Vatican at some point this year.
Israel was angered by the accord, which came two years after the Vatican recognized Palestine as a state. Relations with the Jewish state were also strained by Francis describing Abbas as an “angel of peace” during the two men’s May 2015 meeting.
Saturday’s meeting will come against a background of deep concern among Palestinians over US President-elect Donald Trump’s declared intention of moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem….