[vox_freedom]

Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI's statement at the close of his visit:

Walls do not last forever

With anguish, I have witnessed the situation of refugees who, like the Holy Family, have had to flee their homes. And I have seen, adjoining the camp and overshadowing much of Bethlehem, the wall that intrudes into your territories, separating neighbors and dividing families.

Although walls can easily be built, we all know that they do not last for ever. They can be taken down. First, though, it is necessary to remove the walls that we build around our hearts, the barriers that we set up against our neighbours.

That is why, in my parting words, I want to make renewed plea for openness and generosity of spirit, for an end to intolerance and exclusion. No matter how intractable and deeply entrenched a conflict may appear to be, there are always grounds to hope that it can be resolved, that the patient and persevering efforts of those who work for peace and reconciliation will bear fruit in the end.

Benedict XVI
Farewell ceremony in the courtyard of the Palestinian Presidential Palace
May 13, 2009

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

•Anti-Jewish Riots in 1920-21, which was characterized by the brutal murder in Jaffa of the prominent Jewish author Y. Brenner
•'Disturbances' of 1929, which included the massacre of the Jewish community in Hebron)
•Many incidents of anti-Jewish violence during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 Source

During the same period, Haj Amin al Husseini (1893-1974), the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who claimed to be a direct descendent of Mohammad’s son Hussein and is said to have been Yassir Arafat’s uncle; Arafat’s full name is Rahman Abdul Rauf Arafat al-Qudwa el-Husseini.) was the religious leader of the Palestinian Arabs. Al Husseini used the Islam to incite the 1920-21, 1929 and 1935-39 anti-Jewish atrocities (“Arab riots’ in the British lingo) in Palestine and was responsible to the murder of hundreds of Jews. Then in 1941, during the war, he went to Berlin to persuade Hitler to extend the Holocaust to the Middle East and help the Arabs to exterminate the Israeli Jews, as part of the NAZI “final solution.” Source

The Israeli Foreign Ministry lists the deaths...mostly from terrorism...in the 1920s...1930s...and 1940s. Terrorism deaths in Israel - 1920-1999

[dennisw]

The Vatican has a wall around it and the UN has a fence. The White House has a nice wrought iron fence and plenty of security....Unlike America’s southern border