As a catholic I´m surprised at this rather undifferentiated papal statement. West Bank is ancient jewish area ! Israel decides how to deal with Palestinians here. Possibly it would be good "Realpolitik" to allow a palestinan state, but it is NOT their homeland. Palestinians forefathers are from the Gaza area (Philistees) or from arabic tribes which invaded the area shortly after Muhammad. Remember, the catholic church is much more diverse than just this pope and his view.........

Or De-Man(demon) I should say.Let him invite the Arabs to live in the enclosed city of the vatican.This poop should mind his own business & should be on his knees asking not only the Jews but the whole world to forgive the murder & torture & massacres the catholic church carried out on the rest of the world. Shame on him, he certainly isnt a man of G-D.

Have you ever heard how rich is the Vatican ? How much money they invest to help the poor worldwide ? How do they apply transparency, accountability in their day to day life ? What Vatican hasamassed in its vaults concerning Judeo Christian conflicts since the first Pope ?

And we too hope to demolish this one . But this depends on those who live on the other side . Let them stop endangering our lives . Let them stop to try to blow us up in our shops , restaurants , buses and other shopping malls .

What about locked faults?

on issues such as pedophile priests and the lives they have ruined before he pronounces on anything else.

The Pope doesn't want to alienate all Muslims. He wants to convert them. He wants free movement for his missionaries in Muslim countries. What better way to suck up than to fawn all over Palestinians?

The pope still has the dream of crusades and Spanish equations and ww2, the pope believe in Jesses that he was Jews but still he is refusing to accept the reality I have no doubt that the pope for many times did read the bible but he is running away from the reality because of his persistence and his hate against the Jews, It is the reality that land has been belong to Jews and for ever will be for the Jews by the way pope should learn from evangelicals. Am Israel chai

They understood the best way to prevent criminality is the Israeli solution. Rabbis didn't want to call the new flu "suine flu",now ,all over the world ,they are changing that name because they understood the rightness of the solution. Thousands of rural communities flock aroud the world copying Israeli kibutzim solution. The norteast of Brasil became to flourish because of the ISRAELI method of irrigation. Everybody criticizes Israeli Jews but everybody ultimately copy their solutions. Humiliating for copiers ,isn't it?

like it was 'dumb' to join a youth movement that advocates purity of the races. or its 'dumb' to make incendiary statements and inappropriate comments about what you can't comprehend. or its 'dumb' to direct those comments towards the citizens of a host nation who've collectively suffered grave losses as a result of the actions carried out by the adult conspirators of that same youth movement

I especially enjoyed his concert in Bethlehem under the title of Candelight Songs For Lovers.He performed a great version of the Elvis song "Suspicious Minds" which would have truly put Elvis to shame.The crowd went insane with cheers when the Papa began to sing "Yesterday..all my troubles seemed so far away".The Vatican has truly produced a star.

a 10 meter high wall encircling the Vatican, separating families, forcing citizens to take long bus rides to get around it, or stand for many hours in ques to get inside. All those children who cannot get to their schools on time, the pregnant women who have to go all the way around it to get to the hospital... So, Mr. Pope, how many suicide attacks have you suffered lately? Do all those hostile Italians surrounding you on all sides prevent you from sleeping at night? Any plans to take down the wall in the near future and let go of all those yellow and red Swiss guards? What are you afraid of? Someone might come and steal all the money that Vatican has stolen over the centuries? What a hypocrite!

Pope is right - right on his Nazi butt.

The Pope may think he is the representative of G-d on earth but in the Holy Land of Israel he is,unfortunately,just another "wannabe".He aint no Daddy here as the saying goes.As for Messiahs and prophets,they are a dime -a -dozen here.

The Pope by sewing seeds of hate with his one sided remarks and dismissal of the holocaust, hopes to hasten Armageddon and hence the second coming of Christ. This man only wants to further Catholicism's evil agenda. They lost Jerusalem to the Muslims and then the Jews. They want it back. If he really was a man of peace he would have asked the Arab states to recognize Israel's right to exist as well as for a Palestinian state. Beware false prophets

Upon a lofty mountain ascend,o herald of zion,raise your voice with strength,o herald of JESUSALEN,raise(your voice),fear not,say to the cities of judah,behold your G´d!,behold the lord G´d shall come with a strong(hand),and his arm rules for him,behold his reward is with him,and his recompense is before him,like a sheperd(who)tends his flock,with his arm he gathers lambs,and in his bosom he carries(them),the nursing ones he leads,who measured water with his gait,and measured the heavens with his span,and measured by thirds the dust of the earth,and weighed mountains with a scale and hills with a balance?who meted the spirit of the lord,and his advisers who informs him?,with whom did he take counsel give him to understand,and teach him in the way of justice,and teach him knowledge,and the way of understanding did let him know?

Pope does not represent 'Christianity'. The Catholic Church lost all credibity long ago. The faith is in the 'Believers' where ever they may be. No 'worldly' institution speaks for the Lord.

He would fight for arabs to go back to their forefathers lands:ARABIA! #10 is right on! And if he really was a man of peace he would stop wearing that ridiculous kipah and would stop imitating and distorting Jewish faith like a mad monkey!

Having stated that hostilities were the cause of the walls construction, he did not say that it served no purpose. He did not say that he was in favor of seeing innocent Israelis die at the hands of suicide bombers. He did not say that Israelis alone had to change their ways. He tried to plant a seed in the hardened hearts of belligerants on both sides by suggesting that until people on "both" sides of the barrier broke down the walls around their hearts the wall could not come down. He was trying to give hope where there are so many selling fear and hatred. I am not so old that I ever lived through a pogrom, an Inquisition nor shoah but I wonder if one percent of the population continually spits venom upon their neighbours and their emisarres of peace...how long will the majority remain tolerant. For every fifty swine indifferent to his pearls of wisdom there will be one in whom the word grows. Therein lies the chance for peace.

Actually, genetic studies have revealed that a large percentage of Palestinians are more Jewish by ancestry than many Jews... the reason? conversion.. shalom

Please do not confuse Christians with the false religion of Catholicism.. insane men have have always hid behind the Cross .. You might still be stuck in Law Of Moses.. but as Paul says.. its incomplete...there is a new Covenant... my beloved... Baruch HaShem

The Pope is an expert on Walls. It was his predecessors that for the past 2,000 years walled the Jews of Rome in the Rome Ghetto within eyesight of the Vatican. The Jews of Rome never posed a threat, however the Palestinians do.

not keep them from commenting on current events. The Catholic church has paid horrific settlements to people who "claim" to have been abused decades ago who never told anybody or went to the police. Some priests confess to being guilty and go to jail. Others are falsely accused and forgive their accusers after years of trials and litigation. If the priests who were aquitted such as Father Eric Swearingen of Fresno did not ask the Lord to forgive the perjurors but instead asked the Lord to avenge the perjuries, the most horrific judgments of America would follow. The Catholic church has not done that. When King Saul mistreated the Gibeonites and they asked the Lord to avenge them, the Lord sent a drought. King David knew a drought was a judgment from the Lord, so he asked the Prophet what the Lord was upset about. He was told the Gibeonites were asking for revenge from the Lord. So David went to the Gibeonites and did what they asked to appease them (slaying King Saul's sons and grandsons except for Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son who ate at David's table.) If the wrongly accused Roman Catholic priests asked God to avenge them, He would. Many lives would be ruined from economic disasters as a result of even a drought.

"Land of your forefathers!?" For most Palestinians that would be Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. It was these Arabs who immigrated to the Land of Israel to piggyback on Jewish prosperity and are now called "Palestinians."

They prevent foreigners to enter the City of Vatican except San Peter's church and the museums (full of Jewish manuscripts stollen during centuries..).. A real shame, no ???

This guy is the biggest disgrace to all that is holy under G-d's heaven.

Go back to the vatican and play in your silly costume.

when we bomb your first chil in the street, just give your second child to terrorists as an answer. Wall safe life and protect people but jew lifes seem not to be so important for the pope...