Pope says Bethlehem wall "can be taken down"

Yahoo ^ | 5/14/09 | Philip Pullella & Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh

[Salvation]

**Can a Poe be impeached?**

A Pope is selected through a discernment process in the College of Cardinals. (Usually from among their own ranks, but not always.) Monks and priests have been selected as Popes.

A Pope serves his entire lifetime.

Do you remember anything about the death of John Paul II and the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new Pope?

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Are you really going to compare an assassin with a single target, to all the terror attacks Israel has had to endure for decades?

[B Knotts]

I’m just sayin’...there are terror threats against the Vatican. It’s one of the Islamists’ dream targets.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

But it barely any comparison to the living hell the Palestinian death-culters have made for the Israelis.

[rmlew]

The Muslims are slowly expelling the Christians from Bethlehem and the Pope is playing lets invent a reality.
I understand that this is very Jesus like and all, but I live in the real world where the Romans were pagan occupiers ethnically cleansing Jews and the Muslims wish to kill us.

[mtnjimmi]

No!

he has to die or abdicate, not all popes have died of natural causes though, this one is in his 80's

[Pyro7480]

Can you say Photoshopped?

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Umm, no. It wasn’t Photoshopped.

The photograph is from the Pope’s visit to Jordan, about 3 or 4 days ago. You could probably find the video report of the same, if you looked for it.

[RegulatorCountry]

I know Photoshop pretty well, use it for my livelihood, and that image is not manipulated.

It's Pope Benedict wearing a keffiyeh. At least he didn't wear it as a headdress like Yassir Arafat.

[HeavensGate27]

The scarf was given to Papa as a gift during his welcoming reception by the Kingdom of Jordan. It symbolizes Arabic culture and would be similar to an American giving him a baseball cap when he came to America. Timothy McVeigh wore a baseball cap and therefore some would be pleased to insinuate that those who wear such might be a terrorist.

If the Israeli gifted him with a star of David or menorah, some would use the photo to imply that he might be a crypto Jew.

[Pyro7480]

Ah ok. I thought someone was lame enough to substitute the Pope’s stole for the scarf.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

You can identify most Photoshopped pictures, simply by tilting your laptop’s screen or any LCD monitor, whereby the aberrations will be visible wherever edits have been made.