Israel, an illegitimate state

PARIS - Israel is not "necessarily" a legitimate state, the Jewish people is no longer the chosen people, there is no reason to attack Iran … Bishop Richard Williamson, known for his positions, appears in a video posted on the website Dailymotion.

•    Pursued in Germany for denying the existence of Nazi gas chambers, silent the past year, the prelate appeared relaxed and answered in French for about 13 minutes to questions from a anti-Zionist activist, Pierre Panet.
  
     The bishop considers himself in "sabbatical" year, which consists chiefly, as he said, in eating, sleeping, and writing on his blog, "Dynoscopus.”
  
     Asked about Israel, he said that "everyone believes that this state is legitimate, but it is not necessarily that it is", he said.
  
     The bishop said that since the death of Christ on the cross, the chosen people is no longer the people of Hebrews of the Old Testament. "Jews and non Jews are elected if they have faith in Jesus Christ," he said.
  
     About Iran, Bishop Williamson said that "there is absolutely no reason to attack that country, according to Catholic doctrine of right war."
  
     Concerning the Catholic fundamentalists of the Society of Saint Pius X, to which he belongs, he believes that theological discussions held with the Vatican are a "dialogue of the deaf".
  
     Pope Benedict XVI wants to bring back the fundamentalists within the Church while they continue to refuse some of the changes from Vatican II, including ecumenism and dialogue with Jews.
  
     In response to a question, he says he was Prosecute in Germany for having "raised questions about the six million Jews gassed." And doubting about it is a crime under German law, so they attack me," says he.
  
     Bishop Williamson, when he was in charge of the seminar of the Society of Saint Pius X in Argentina had denied the killing of Jews in gas chambers during an interview broadcast by Swedish television January 22, 2009.
  
     It is one of four bishops of the fundamentalist movement of the Society of Saint Pius X for which Pope Benedict XVI had made the decision, much criticized, to lift the excommunication.
      
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