I worry about the Jews and the smouldering anti-Semitism that is always ready to ignite and which we must guard against, even if we feel provoked.  This comment piece from Israel on the Pope's speech at the holocaust memorial was typical of many, begrudging, wanting the Pope to abase himself in some way and accept a personal or corporate responsibility for what happened which he could not, in truth, do.  He wrote:

However, you thought otherwise. You thought that visiting Yad Vashem is enough...


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