israel wants to tax Vatican on their dead
When you get past all the flowery talk about Judeo-Christian culture, it always comes down to money - where israelis invariably end up on the receiving end.
Diplomats from Israel and the Vatican have resumed talks in Rome over disputed church properties and taxes in Israel after a five-year silence.After crafting a treaty in 1993, the two countries established formal diplomatic ties a year later, but long-standing disagreements remained over the Roman Catholic Church's tax-exempt status in Israel, a Los Angeles Times correspondent reported from Rome.
While Israel wants the church to pay taxes on churches, shrines, monasteries, and cemeteries, the Vatican claims that their tax-exempt status was defined centuries before Israel became a country in 1948.
Talks are further complicated because of disagreement over whether Israeli law or the Vatican treaty should prevail, the report said.
That's easy - since israel is an illegitimate terrorist state, israeli law is null and void.
In a joint statement issued after the first meeting Monday, the sides said that there was an atmosphere of "great cordiality, mutual understanding, and goodwill," although Vatican negotiator Father David-Maria Jaeger, an Israeli-born Franciscan friar, said, "there is a lot, lot more work to be done."
Something tells me that the outcome of this dispute ultimately tuns on israel's ability to maintain its aura of military invincibility, i.e., its nuclear monopoly.
Incredible!
By the way, how much tax does the average synagogue pay?
Or AIPAC?
Come to think of it: How many churches and other properties does the Catholic church have in Israel?
The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth is the only one I can think of. The rest are located in Palestine.
Is Israel working to extort money from the Catholic church for property located in illegally occupied Palestine?
This is an important question to have answered.
Vatican negotiator Father David-Maria Jaeger, an Israeli-born Franciscan friar, said, "there is a lot, lot more work to be done." Guess who's gonna win this contest of greed
I can't believe the depths of their greed.
“In a joint statement issued after the first meeting Monday, the sides said that there was an atmosphere of "great cordiality, mutual understanding, and goodwill."
… in other words, the Vatican is close to caving in.
Made Brani is right. Let’s tax all Jewish graves, synagogues, shrines, holo-hoax memorials, and so forth.
By the way, there are also problems with the Greek Orthodox Church, which owns choice land in Palestine.
Israel keeps seizing that land to build Jewish “settlements” on it.
Greek Orthodox people who live on it (Arabs, some of them Palestinians) appeal to the Greek Orthodox Church, but the Greek Orthodox Church has also been infiltrated.
Caving in? The Vat will probably be offering them interest... from the faithful's pockets!!!