Pontiff ‘would be happy to visit Holy Land,’ says Vatican
Topic: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth has brought Israel and Gaza to the edge of destruction: it seems inevitable; but it’s just not practical politics
Posted on Friday, 23 November 2012
Reconciliation actually works – that’s what the allies discovered in Germany: but can it be done without unconditional surrender?
The freeing of Gilad Shalit shows Israel’s humanity – and Hamas’s blood-chilling cruelty
Posted on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
His kidnapping five years ago has done the Palestinian cause no favours
It’s hardly anti-Semitic to say that Palestinians have been treated unjustly
Posted on Monday, 1 November 2010
Middle East bishops had a right to speak up for Palestinians at the Synod
Pope: we can never give up on peace
Posted on Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Pope Benedict XVI closes Middle East Synod by urging bishops never to resign themselves ‘to the absence of peace’
Pope meets Israeli president
Posted on Friday, 3 September 2010
The two men expressed hope that the renewal of talks in Washington would lead to ‘lasting peace’
Time to stop the Christian exodus from the Middle East, says Vatican
Posted on Friday, 11 June 2010
The plight of Christians in the Middle East is threatened by an “extremist current” of “political Islam” and is being ignored by the world, the Pope has said ahead of a new Vatican report
Not only was Gerald Scarfe’s cartoon not anti-Semitic; hysterically saying it was makes any rational criticism of it impossible
To accuse Scarfe of a ‘blood libel’ is unpardonably over the top: accusations of that seriousness should be more carefully made