BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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AE - There's nothing sudden about it at all. In fact, the roots
of the desire go back 1200 years to the time of Charlemagne.
He was the Vatican's military tool for converting
Europe to Roman Catholicism. He succeed magnificently
and created what is known as the Holy Roman Empire but
what was then called The Holy Roman Empire Of The
German Nation. Charlemagne's capital was at Aachen and
there he built his first cathedral.
BC - Excuse me but, so?
AE - Next to the yeshiva on Mount Zion is the Dormition
Abbey, built by the Germans starting in 1906. It is an exact
duplicate of Charlemagne's Aachen Cathedral.
BC - How did that happen?
AE - Kaiser Wilhelm II came to Jerusalem in 1898 to build
two churches, a modest Lutheran Church of minor religious
significance and a magnificent Catholic structure on Mount
Zion. In 1898, the ruler of a nation didn't make such a difficult
journey to a diplomatic backwater unless it was extremely
important. The Vatican was worried that the British had an
operating church in Jerusalem and its presence could solidify
and spread. The Vatican provided much of the funds for the
trip and the bribe to the Turkish Sultan, Khamid. Since
Wilhelm had a Protestant population to appease, he put up a
smaller Lutheran church as well, but the real prize was
Mount Zion.
BC - Why all the money and trouble if the Vatican gets the
real estate? What was in it for Germany?
AE - Germany has never given up its dream of reviving the
Holy Roman Empire. At the height of that empire, their
greatest king, Frederick the Great, marched into Jerusalem
and became the city's king. Jerusalem was once part of the
Holy Roman Empire and the dream is that it will be again. In
this empire, the delineation of powers was strict. The pope