Useful Idiots, Part II

JERUSALEM (CNS) -- The United States has a responsibility to play a vital role in restarting Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' international policy committee. "We have a certain responsibility. By not being engaged at this level it will certainly involve us in ways we do not want to be involved in (later)," said Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla. "There needs to be a negotiated solution. "The status quo is not tenable," he said. "The two partners are not on equal strength ... and the USA has to prevail on Israel to negotiate in good faith and not take advantage of the Palestinian weakness."

You mean the Palestinians who destroyed pictures of Christ, bibles, and crosses while vandalizing a Catholic Church and school in the Gaza Strip last weekend? The ones who have bombed the Gaza Bible Society two years in a row? The ones who invaded and desecrated the Church of the Nativity in 2002, stealing every thing that wasn't nailed down while taking more than 40 monks and nuns hostage?

Perhaps the Bishop may want to reconsider using the term "good faith".