THE DAILY BLADE: Pope “Not Contrite Enough” About Holocaust
Wary of outraging Muslims (again) during his pilgrimage to the
[C]ontroversy dogged the pontiff as the Vatican tried to counter Israeli criticism that the German-born pontiff had been insufficiently contrite about his country and his church in a speech he gave Monday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. …
The director of Yad Vashem, Avner Shalev, and the board chairman Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor, both issued rare public rebukes of the pope after his speech, as did parliament speaker Reuven Rivlin.
"He himself comes and speaks to us like a historian, as an observer, as a man who expresses his opinion about things that should never happen, and he was - what can you do? - a part of them," Mr. Rivlin said on Israel Radio on Tuesday.
Yeah, well, it could be worse. Here's what the pontiff had to say about the Armenian Genocide when he visited Turkey in 2006: " ." [No this is not a typo. The white space represents silence. As in crickets chirping.]
And let’s not forget German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s faux pas at Yad Vashem in 2000.
The pope also attended an interfaith conference in
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Upon being informed of the content of the speech the pope, whose own address was interrupted by the Muslim cleric, stopped the conference. …
Tamimi attempted a similar stunt during Pope John Paul II's visit to
Before Pope Benedict beat his hasty retreat, Tamimi also managed to shake the pontiff’s hand.
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