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05/13/2009: "Pope displeases chief rabbi."

But Israel's former Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau said the Pontiff did not go far enough and should have been more explicit in his condemnation:

"John Paul II spoke about millions of Jews, were 'murdered' in the Holocaust. He didn't use the word 'murdered' he used the word 'killed'. It's not the same. He didn't say who killed them. John Paul II spoke about the 'Nazis'. In this speech the word 'Nazis' doesn't exist."

Last night, a Palestinian Muslim cleric gave a fiery anti-Israeli speech in the Pope's presence further annoying both the Vatican and Israelis.

[ Catholics are not Jews. It's a different religion. How can these Jews expect the Pope to do everything exactly how the chief Rabbi wants it, right down to the most trivial detail?! ]

http://www.euronews.net/2009/05/12/pope-leaves-jewish-audience-cold-after-speech/