Moshe Y Bernstein (玉梦舍)

@ConceptualJames It was not even a low-level error. the cop was only doing as he had been instructed to do by his superiors. Moreover, Pizzabella knew this was the case and made no effort to obtain prior exemption to the Home Front Command restrictions.

The real Pizzaballagate appears to be the mass-scale propaganda push around what amounts to a low-level error by a normal cop. A lot of questions follow. Why? Who pushed it as hard as possible? Why? Why were so many ready to fall for it? Are we over-vulnerable to religious victimhood narratives? Why? How did that come to be? Was it stoked, perhaps in purpose? By whom? Same people who pushed it like crazy today? Why? How should we reflect on our own vulnerability to these narratives and media warfare attacks?

"Jews and Israel Need to Recognize We’re Essentially Alone” Yesterday was wild. Not because of anything Israel or Jews did, but because of something Catholics and the larger anti-Israel world revealed. In one sentence: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa wanted preferential treatment on Palm Sunday and instead received equal treatment. That’s it. That was the story. All religious sites in Jerusalem without adequate shelters faced restrictions due to active Iranian ballistic missile threats. Iranian missile fragments hit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself—on rooftops in the compound—just weeks ago. Narrow Old City streets mean no quick rescue in a mass-casualty strike. So: Kotel empty (Jews haven’t been able to pray there in weeks), Al-Aqsa restricted (Muslims haven’t been able to pray there in weeks), and Holy Sepulchre blocked for large gatherings. The big Palm Sunday procession was already canceled by the Patriarchate itself days earlier. Pizzaballa and a small group tried a private entry. They were turned back politely according to the Cardinal himself. Netanyahu clarified it was out of “special concern for his safety,” with no malicious intent, and quickly reversed to grant full access for Holy Week. Catholics are now getting preferential treatment. Apparently Catholics complaining gets more juice in the Jewish state. Yet the Cardinal felt aggrieved. So he and his PR team unleashed a wildly divisive and misleading statement calling it a “grave precedent” that “disregards the sensibilities of billions” and a “grossly disproportionate measure.” That language lit the match and went viral before the Iran context or equal-treatment facts could land. And here's the intentional misleading part: This is the same Cardinal who complied with full church closures in Jerusalem for all functions during the entire COVID year. Private or public, it was fine then under health pretexts. But temporary wartime security now—with real rockets hitting the church compound—is suddenly an outrage? An outrage that deserves a statement he KNEW would case a firestorm? Is that Christlike? I'm Jewish, but that feel very forgiving. I don't see a single cheek turned there. He knew he was asking for special treatment. His later walk-back (“misunderstanding,” prayed calmly elsewhere) came after the damage was done. One of the first accounts I saw promoting the context-free statement on X was the Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan—their White House Correspondent, way out of her lane, reposting it with zero context and journalistic ethics. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence she’s a devout Catholic. She chose to report it as a Catholic, not as a journalist who knows the full context. Then the pile-on started. Practically the entire Daily Wire roster (past and present)—Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, Jeremy Boering, and the grifters they brought in—joined in. They all failed yesterday’s test (Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klavan didn't seem to be online). They weren’t alone. Ambassador Mike Huckabee—a great friend to Israel—didn’t learn from his Taybeh tumble last July, where he rushed to call alleged settler incidents “terror” needing harsh consequences before facts settled that it had NOTHING to do with them. Ted Cruz threw gasoline on the fire too. “Stalwart friends of Israel” sending verbal catapults at the Kotel. This is what it’s like for Jews and Israel: The world blames you for something someone else (the Cardinal) did and forces an apology, which Israel gave. The Cardinal couldn’t take one holy day of equal treatment, so he blamed the Jews. Super retro Catholicism. Israel gives Christians equal status, equal rights, and equal treatment… as it should. Weird how Syria slaughtering Christians pales in comparison to equal treatment for Christians from Israel. Quite STRANGE how Il Papa seems more aggrieved by Israel lately… Notice the juxtaposition: Christians have brawled for centuries inside their own holiest site, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre—over every inch of control. So much so MUSLIMS literally control the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. That Status Quo exists because Christians couldn’t govern it peacefully among themselves. But Heaven forbid a Jewish police officer treats the Cardinal the same way he treats a Rabbi or Imam under real Iranian threats that hit the church itself. Suddenly Catholics, evangelicals, and parts of the right unite like nothing else. Their reflexive Jew-hatred—or at least this anti-Israel pile-on—is the only glue that brings them together. It felt VERY retro yesterday. Jews around the world: Do you see it now? How many Catholics, Christians, or others brought water to the fire and corrected the Cardinal? And how many brought kerosene instead? Also, not to miss an opportunity, Muslims were conspicuously silent about their own restrictions. Nobody blamed the man who started it all. While the perception is that Jews are weak, they couldn’t last a single day experiencing life as a Jew. Yesterday proved it: No one launched a war of annihilation against Christians on Easter like Israel faced on Yom Kippur 1973. They haven’t watched Christians massacred on Christmas with the world cheering and justifying it like Jews experienced on Simchat Torah 2023. Equal treatment is enough to trigger the tantrum. Jews were left to fend for themselves. But guess what? *Jocko voice* GOOD. It’s not that we’re alone. That would be fine. Preferable, even. It’s that yesterday clarified how many are so actively against us—waiting for any excuse, cheering like ghouls when the match gets lit and applied to the bonfire of Jew-hatred. Here’s the thing about the New Jew: We see it clearly now, and we say “Good!” Don’t hide your hate. Bring it into the open. The ones we’re not sure of have always been the most dangerous. Thanks to yesterday, the fog is gone. Now we know. That’s what we’ll be talking about at our Seders this week. You think Israel and Jews are a problem now? Just wait until we start agreeing with one another… and acting like it. Happy Passover—because our Seders won’t be a Last Supper anytime soon. Next year in Jerusalem!

“I’m just a modest, smaller account, and I have never experienced the level of harassment, threats & abuse from ANYONE as I have from Jew haters. It is next level.” Same. Only 3 groups have threatened me online: 1.) Trans activists 2.) Abortion activists 3.) Jew haters

Am I? I’m criticizing the Christian world for not pointing out the Cardinal is the one who started this, intentionally. And you’re upset at me? I’m not one of those Jews… This is a New Jew. We don’t apologize for other’s behaving improperly. And MANY Christians failed today

I’m getting extremely sick of this platform- like to the point I might bounce.

Pope Leo: “[Jesus] does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” There is absolutely no biblical basis for this whatsoever. Christians should strive for peace, yes. We don’t revel in death and destruction. And a Christian could make a sound argument against the particulars of many wars throughout history, including the war with Iran today. A Christian could also agree that God shouldn’t be used to justify unjust wars. But to say that God is against war per se is flat out false. All throughout the Old Testament God calls for war in defense of His people. Exodus 15:3 declares, “The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is His name.” David constantly prayed to the Lord while battling his enemies. He says his cries to the Lord “reached His ears” and God answered him. God didn’t just answer David by hiding him away but by giving him lethal strength: “He trains my hands for war” (Psalm 18:6, 34). If you discount these examples because they’re in the Old Testament, you don’t understand Scripture or God. Jesus is God; therefore everything God has ever done Jesus has fully agreed with and participated in, and He does not change (Hebrews 13:8). Mind you also that Jesus Himself promises to come back as a warrior to wage war against evildoers. There are categories of people whose prayers God does not answer: the self-righteous, those who pray with selfish motives. People who wage war are not automatically in one of these categories. I’m so glad our founders did not believe this way. I love this retelling of the story of the pacifist Quaker who allegedly heard Washington praying in the woods at Valley Forge: “He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was His crisis, and the cause of the country, of humanity, and of the world.” Sometimes force is necessary to defeat evil and advance good. When it comes to these matters, Pope Leo has repeatedly proven that he is not wise.

Shut up, Tim. All religious buildings were closed including Jewish ones. No one was even allowed near the wall. Do you want Christians to die from IRGC missiles? There is nothing more retarded that mainstream British politicos.

Go fly to Israel then livestream yourself provoking the @IDF. After you get arrested, start an “I can’t breathe”/ Defund the police campaign.

For you to claim you can speak about the everyday real world when you exist almost entirely on line is one of the great inadvertent jokes of our time.

It was all bullshit. All of it.

@zeynsand @GovMikeHuckabee @IsraeliPM

@MosheYBernstein @GovMikeHuckabee @IsraeliPM Can u please stop? If there was a missile and Cardinal Pizzaballa was hit, that would have been a great PR stunt for Israel! “OH loookkkk iran is killing Christians!!!!” Enough with the bullshit excuse! No clergyman is to be denied entry to Holy sites!!

Glad @IsraeliPM personally & promptly intervened to allow Cardinal Pizzaballa access to Church of Holy Sepulcher. ALL holy sites have restrictions due to Iranian missiles & safety issues, but private access on Palm Sunday was reasonable & issue now resolved. TY @IsraeliPM

@kinsellawarren What about the many wars in the Torah that God not only justifies but commands? Does this Pope reject the martial doctrines of the Old Testament, or is he simply negligent or forgetful here?

Pope uses Palm Sunday Mass to reject claims God justifies war - National | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11750647/…

It does not matter to me what you think, Matt. The truth is that we are at war. Our troops are in harm's way and they need our support. If you can't see that, you're not as smart as I thought you were. Man what a weak set of men we have.

Don't kid the kidder. If the Israelis had allowed the Latin Patriarch into the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday...and he died in an Iranian attack...you anti-Semites would never stop scapegoating the Jews. How can I be sure? Because you anti-Semites never stop scapegoating the Jews.

The fact that the Woke Right knows this and then uses it specifically to recruit to their absolute loser cause, divide the MAGA base, undercut and countersignal President Trump, and divert all productive attention into grifts and Jew hate is basically criminal.

We in Haifa at all churches decided to obey the authorities recommendations and not make any mass gathering out of responsibility for our beloved Maronite community due to the current emergency situation. Why in Jerusalem don't obey? Why the patriarch didn't call PMO office. It would be solved right away? I am afraid there are political reasons behind it. With all that said, I believe the police officer made a mistake by preventing the patriarch to pray in very few numbers. Should have been more smart and sensitive.

@sawnhammers1205 Not true.

Hey Matt. Here's a suggestion for you, you bully. Instead of picking on young Iranian women who support president Trump, bring me on your show & we have a live uncensored one-on-one conversation about your opinions on Iran and "foreigners". Don't keep me waiting too long. :)

Following a productive meeting between the Israel Police and Latin Catholic Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, a mutual framework has been established for upcoming Easter ceremonies. Due to the complex security reality of Operation “Roaring Lion,” ceremonies including the “Holy Fire” will be held in a symbolic, limited format. This coordination ensures that freedom of worship is maintained alongside our shared, primary duty: the protection of human life. In the past few weeks, Iranian missiles and debris have impacted within the Old City. These life-saving restrictions are a direct response to a real and present danger to all worshippers

So there we have it – Netanyahu has made a special allowance for Cardinal Pizzaballa. Meanwhile, Iran still tries to bomb the church. And countries like Saudi Arabia don’t allow churches at all. If we could prioritize our outrage, that would be wonderful.