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THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REVIEW
Majority Rules
Goliath
Max Blumenthal
When
Pope Francis, during his recent visit to the Holy Land, spontaneously
got out of his jeep in Bethlehem, touched his forehead to the security
wall that separates Jews from Arabs and silently prayed for the
suffering of Palestinian children, the gesture was widely seen as an
expression of his love for humanity. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, however, was reportedly taken aback and asked the pope to
visit a memorial to the Jewish victims of terror attacks.
Netanyahu’s objection reflected his core belief that only Jewish suffering matters. As Max Blumenthal documents in Goliath,
this belief has since the 2009 parliamentary elections led to policies
that have eroded the rights of Palestinians living in Israel and the
occupied territories.http://americamagazine.org/issue/culture/majority-rules
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