The Spanish government recently withdrew its ambassador from Rogue state/Pariah nation Israel. ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu continues making life miserable not only for the people in the Middle East, but for the people and economies of the EU, the US, and now Australia who is facing a gasoline shortage.

Pope Benedict XV used his emissaries at the post-World War One treaty negotiations to have the Holy Lands (Palestine) given to the Vatican to make up for the lost money-making Papal States following the 19th-century Italian Risorgimento.

The efforts failed and Palestine ended up a British mandate.

A few years later, Pope Benedict XV (or his successor) lamented after seeing prostitution and gambling sites discreetly opening up in the Holy Lands under the British mandate:

"Blech. The Holy Lands were better off in the hands of the [Muslim] Ottomans." [sic]