Pope calls for Palestinian state

In Easter speech, Pope Benedictus defends Israel's right to exist, calls for establishment of truly independent Palestinian state

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3240346,00.html

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"Pope Benedictus, in his first Easter message, called on Sunday for an "honorable solution" to the nuclear standoff with Iran, a truly independent Palestinian state, and global cooperation to combat terrorism.

The German Pope, speaking on his 79th birthday, made his appeal for world peace in his Easter "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message to some 100,000 people as he concluded the first Easter season of his pontificate."

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"In another part of the speech, the Pope defended Israel's right to exist, in what appeared to be an indirect criticism of statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state should be eliminated.

But he also called firmly for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

"May the international community, which re-affirms Israel's just right to exist in peace, assist the Palestinian people to overcome the precarious conditions in which they live and to build their future, moving towards the constitution of a state that is truly their own," He said in the part of his address dedicated to peace in the Middle East."

Don't forget when he was Cardinal Ratsomething he put the word out from the vatican to "swift-boat" Kerry on the abortion issue and those moron archbishops started their "don't give Kerry communion" BS. Benny is a sleazoid.

a former member of the Order of Saint Francis (a former ordained Roman Catholic priest) - fairly pro-Palestinian, the Holy Father called for a two state solution and recognized Israel's right to exist. The New York Times confirms Bernie Ward's interpretation.



Edited to correct link to New York Times