The defense of Israel is an important issue to me, maybe the most important. Most of my Jewish American friends honestly could care less about the future of Israel.

I guess the great thing about this country is you don't have to be Jewish to support Jews who are treated unfairly. Hence why Yamamoto, in trying to convince the Japanese in 1941 that America was not as weak as they had thought, cited his education at Harvard where he learned about America's strong sense of justice.

Every heard of the "Concordat"? It was signed in 1933 between the same Pius that your link points to and the world's leading anti-Semite (Hitler) in 1933. It was the -grounds- for Hitler's ascension as a "Reich", the first Reich being the Holy Roman Empire.

Ignoramus indeed.

The fact that the same pope opened the Vatican to Jews mere months before Allied forces occupied Rome speaks only to his desire for self-preservation.

It isn't "anti-Catholic" to point out the situation Jews faced was in part due to failures of the Roman Catholic church. I suppose you can tell me who assisted Nazi leaders who fled Germany successfully after WWII into Roman Catholic countries in South America?

The Jews would still be living in Europe save for the Catholic Church's support of Hitler.

Most Jews moved to Israel to escape persecution and genocide that the Catholic Church was all too often a part of.

Now they put words in the mouth of the Israel government to deprive them of the last place they are safe from bigotry and persecution in the Old World, and many Catholics will distort this truth to take even that away from them.