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Pope's 'man of peace' says murdering Jews not a crime

At the same event at which Pope Francis I called  'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen a 'man of peace,' the peaceful man had some choice comments about murdering Jews. This is from Tom Gross.

(4) There is also concern in Israel that the Pope called Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas a “man of peace” today at an event where Abbas, in the Pope’s presence, repeated his demand that any Palestinian who murders an Israeli must not be punished at all.

Gross also has some comments about the infamous picture of the Pope praying at the 'security fence.'
But none of the Western media I have seen have drawn attention to the exact spot that the Pope chose to pray: in front of large graffiti comparing Bethlehem to the Warsaw Ghetto.

The photo above is from the main EU-funded Palestinian media outlet, the Maan news agency.

(There is another version of this photo below.)

A few comments:

(1) Comparing Israel with Nazi Germany forms part of the working definition of anti-Semitism formulated by the EU and others.

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(2) Bethlehem is a relatively prosperous town where restaurants and juice bars are packed, and BMWs, Mercedes and Humvees compete for parking spaces in the center or town. By contrast, 400,000 Jews were herded into the Warsaw Ghetto and those who weren’t beaten or starved to death there, were taken to be exterminated at nearby camps.

(Yes, there is of course a political problem between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and one day, one hopes, the security barrier can be removed without its removal leading to increased terrorism, but this has nothing to do with the Warsaw Ghetto. One wonders why the Pope’s Vatican handlers were eager to choose that spot – or are so insensitive as to allow the Palestinian Authority to guide the Pontiff to that spot.)

(3) The Pope represents an organization, the Vatican, which even today, after seven decades of repeated appeals, is still refusing to make public its wartime archives detailing the full extent of its collaboration with the Nazis before, during and after the Holocaust.

 Read the whole thing.

Labels: Abu Mazen, Argentina, Bethlehem, escaped Nazis, Holocaust, Nazis, Pope Francis I, security fence, Warsaw Ghetto

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:13 PM