While I still look for it...check this out...talk about extortion...
The Jewish Week (NY), December 26, 2003; Michael Cook:
"The issue, I submit, is not Mel Gibson's movie at all but the future of Catholic-Jewish trust. Either the Vatican and/or the bishops are not tuned into this reality, or they don't care, or they do care but Jews are simply not as high on the priority list as Jews had hoped.
"...The question to be posed to the Bishops and the Vatican and the Pope is not, 'Say, is the movie great, or what?' but rather, 'If this film poses the threat of unraveling five decades of advances in Christian-Jewish relations, then what shall we say about it in that light?'
"...In their own sense of abandonment, Jews may very well abandon the venture of Catholic-Jewish understanding [and turn toward Evangelicals] ...a move I predict has already begun to spread nationwide.
"...As many have said to me, 'You know, it's just like what happened to us in the Six-Day War. Evangelicals may want to end us by converting us, but at least they won't abandon us.'
