It is crass of the German Bishops (report March 7th) to compare Israel to the Nazis when they are facing a resurgence of that movement in their own country. Comparing the Israel wall to one that surrounded Berlin ignores the reasons for each. Berlin was trying to stop their citizens escaping to freedom, Israel's wall is trying,with success, to stop suicide bombers spreading carnage among its citizens. The Bishops would be advisedto use their influence to try and stop the sinister ethnic cleansing of Christians in the West Bank, with mosques in Bethlehem now over 90, compared with 5 in 1967, yet Christian presence in Israel has risen by 270% since the inception of the Jewish State.
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Bishop of the southern city of Eichstaett, Gregor Maria Hanke, was quoted by German media Monday as deploring the conditions imposed on Palestinians in the occupied territories, after a visit to the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem at the end of a one-week tour of the Holy Land with 26 other German Roman Catholic bishops.
"In the morning we saw photographs from the inhumane Warsaw ghetto, in the evening we drove through the ghetto in Ramallah," he said. "It is infuriating."
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