EWTN News portal reports on a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Christian soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), held on April 26, 2026. The article describes how Catholic and evangelical Christian soldiers shared their experiences with Netanyahu, who praised their service and claimed Israel “fights for the rights of Christians around the Middle East.” The piece highlights the appointment of George Deek as special envoy to the Christian world, the destruction of Christian religious symbols by IDF soldiers in Lebanon, and the rising tide of anti-Christian incidents within Israel itself. While the article presents this meeting as a positive gesture toward Israel’s Christian minority, it systematically omits the fundamental theological impossibility of Catholic soldiers serving a state that rejects Christ the King, ignores the Masonic-Zionist foundations of the Israeli state, and remains silent on the spiritual catastrophe of Catholics participating in military actions that destroy Christian sacred objects and persecute fellow Christians in occupied territories.
The Theological Impossibility of Catholic Military Service to a Christ-Rejecting State
The very premise of this article — that Catholic soldiers can faithfully serve in the Israel Defense Forces while maintaining their Catholic identity — constitutes a fundamental betrayal of the Social Kingship of Christ Our Lord. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established with irrefutable clarity that “Christ possesses dominion over all creatures, not by force but by essence and nature,” and that “angels and men are to be obedient and subject to His dominion as Man: that is, through the hypostatic union, Christ has authority over all creatures.” The State of Israel, founded in 1948 by Zionist revolutionaries — many of whom were Freemasons and atheists — explicitly rejects the divinity of Christ, the authority of His Church, and the obligation of all nations to publicly recognize His royal dignity.
When Catholic soldiers swear allegiance to such a state, they place themselves in a position of disobedience to the Divine King. Pius XI taught that “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations” and that “not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Israel does not honor Christ. Israel does not obey Christ. Israel, in its very constitution as a secular-Zionist state, represents the abomination of desolation — the rejection of God’s sovereignty over a territory that was once sanctified by the Blood of Our Redeemer.
The article’s claim that “Israel fights for the rights of Christians around the Middle East” is a blatant falsehood contradicted by the very facts presented in the same article. The IDF destroyed a statue of Jesus Christ in Debel, southern Lebanon. An IDF vehicle destroyed solar panels belonging to a Lebanese Christian village. There were 180 reported anti-Christian incidents in Israel in 2025 alone. These are not the actions of a state that “fights for the rights of Christians.” These are the actions of a state that persecutes Christians while cynically using Christian soldiers as propaganda tools.
The Masonic-Zionist Foundation of the Israeli State
The article remains conspicuously silent on the Masonic and revolutionary origins of the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned “secret societies” as “pests” that aim to “undermine the foundations on which [the Church] rests, to contaminate its splendid qualities; and, moreover, to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it, and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth.” The Zionist movement was deeply intertwined with Freemasonry from its inception. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, moved in Masonic circles. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 — the diplomatic foundation of the Israeli state — was issued by a British government saturated with Masonic influence.
The article’s description of Netanyahu praising Christian soldiers while his military destroys Christian sacred objects in Lebanon reveals the diabolical duplicity of the Zionist project. This is not a state that values Christians. This is a state that instrumentalizes Christians for its own geopolitical purposes while simultaneously persecuting them. The appointment of George Deek — an Orthodox Christian, not a Catholic — as “special envoy to the Christian world” is a classic divide-and-conquer strategy, designed to create the illusion of Christian-Zionist solidarity while the IDF continues its destruction of Christian communities in the Middle East.
The Spiritual Ruination of Christian Soldiers
The article quotes Juergen Buehler, head of the evangelical International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, who described the meeting as “extraordinary” and “gratifying.” This enthusiasm for political recognition from a state that rejects Christ reveals the profound spiritual blindness of those who have substituted the Kingdom of God for earthly political alliances. Our Lord Jesus Christ declared: “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36). The soldiers who serve in the IDF — regardless of their personal intentions — are participating in military operations that have resulted in the destruction of Christian sacred objects, the displacement of Christian communities, and the deaths of Christian civilians.
The article mentions that “an Arab Christian soldier told Netanyahu that he doesn’t face any challenges in the IDF for being Christian, but when we go home, it’s a different reality.” This admission reveals the double life that Christian soldiers are forced to lead — serving a state that tolerates them instrumentally while their own communities face persecution and emigration. The article notes that “Christian emigration from both Israel and Palestine has increased in recent years, fueled by wars, financial instability, and anti-Christian acts by both Jews and Muslims.” Yet the article presents the meeting with Netanyahu as a positive development, completely ignoring the structural impossibility of Christian flourishing in a state founded on the rejection of Christ.
The Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
The most damning omission in this article is its complete silence on the Social Kingship of Christ and the duty of all nations to publicly recognize His authority. Pope Pius XI taught that “the annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The State of Israel does not honor Christ. It does not obey Him. It does not recognize His Church. It is, in the words of Pius IX, one of those “states that thought they could do without God and that their religion was impiety and contempt for God” (Syllabus of Errors, 1864).
The article’s framing — presenting Christian military service to Israel as a positive development — constitutes a relativization of Catholic doctrine regarding the obligations of states toward Christ the King. This is precisely the error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907): “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (proposition 57) and “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity” (proposition 65). By presenting Christian service to a Christ-rejecting state as acceptable, the article implicitly teaches that Catholic faith can be reconciled with political arrangements that deny Christ’s sovereignty — a proposition that is heretical.
The Destruction of Christian Sacred Objects: A War Crime Against the Faith
The article mentions, almost in passing, that “an IDF soldier destroyed a statue of Jesus in the village of Debel in southern Lebanon” and that “a video showed an IDF vehicle destroying a large solar energy panel near the same Lebanese Christian village.” These acts constitute sacrilege and persecution of the faith — yet the article treats them as minor incidents rather than as evidence of the anti-Christian nature of the Israeli military occupation.
The destruction of a statue of Jesus Christ is not a random act of vandalism. It is a deliberate attack on the Sacred Humanity of Christ — an attack that echoes the iconoclasm of the heretics condemned by the Second Council of Nicaea (787). The Church has always taught that “the honor paid to an image passes to its prototype” (St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto 18:45). To destroy an image of Christ is to attack Christ Himself. That this destruction was carried out by a soldier of a state that claims to “fight for the rights of Christians” reveals the satanic hypocrisy of the Zionist project.
The Instrumentalization of Christians for Zionist Propaganda
The entire meeting described in the article is a propaganda exercise designed to create the illusion of Christian-Zionist solidarity. Netanyahu’s statement that “Israel has Christian soldiers who fight for the defense of Israel and for our Christian brethren throughout the area” is a lie contradicted by the facts. The IDF is not fighting for Christian brethren. The IDF is fighting for the expansion and security of a state that persecutes Christians. The Christian soldiers who serve in the IDF are being used as human shields — not against physical attack, but against the accusation that Israel is an anti-Christian state.
The article’s failure to expose this instrumentalization constitutes a betrayal of the Christian soldiers themselves. These young men and women are being led into a spiritual trap — serving a state that will discard them the moment they are no longer useful for propaganda purposes. The article should have warned them that “you cannot serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24) — that service to a state that rejects Christ is incompatible with the Catholic faith.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Christian Service to the Enemies of Christ
This article, published by EWTN News — a portal that claims to represent Catholic media — constitutes a scandalous betrayal of Catholic teaching regarding the Social Kingship of Christ, the obligations of states toward the true Church, and the spiritual dangers of serving Christ-rejecting governments. By presenting Christian military service to Israel as a positive development, the article implicitly teaches that Catholics may serve states that reject Christ, persecute Christians, and destroy sacred objects — a proposition that is heretical and condemned by the perennial Magisterium of the Church.
The true Catholic position is clear: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21). When Caesar claims to be God — or when Caesar rejects God — the Catholic must render to God alone. The State of Israel, in its current form, is a Masonic-Zionist construct that rejects the Social Kingship of Christ. No Catholic can serve such a state without betraying his faith. The Christian soldiers described in this article are, however unintentionally, serving the enemies of Christ — and the article’s failure to expose this constitutes a grave sin of omission.
Let us pray for these misguided souls, that they may come to understand that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) — and that this name is not Israel, but Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
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Christian IDF soldiers meet Netanyahu amid rising tensions (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.04.2026