is the leader of a bunch of weirdos who have opted out of life to conform to a particularly queer type of asceticism that ensures they actually live on Easy Street by exploiting the naivete of the flock.

We'll said gp. The only country in the Middle East where any religion can be practised freely and where all holy places are protected not distroyed.

I thought the Pope is supposed to be a religious figurehead not a politician. He can say he prays to God that the conflict will end soon but what he should not be doing is calling it increasingly unacceptable makes him sound like a politician rather than a religious leader. The man reminds me of Pesident Peres. The presidency is supposed to be a ceremonial role but the current president sometimes acts like leader of the opposition by criticising the PM in the international media saying things like Bibi was responsible for the breakdown of talks not Abbas. Even Herzog would be treading on thin ice if he said that in the international media but he at least can say it Peres cannot.

... is also unacceptable. Francis needs to set his priorities. The first would be cleaning his own house. He should never have been allowed to come to Israel in the first place. The purpose of his meeting is to commemorate a meeting of Catholics and Orthodox, why can't they meet in Istanbul or Rome?

I doubt he was black but Jesus would almost certainly have had dark Mediterranean skin and he was also fishing everyday in the hot sun so would have also got a little bit of a tan. Its the European Catholic Church which had this idea of him being white and blond haired because they wanted the son of God to be somebody who looked like them because the Romans were the master race with their great empire.

closet anti-semite, like so many of his predecessors. not a word about jews being MURDERED going to a museum, driving their family to a sadder, going for a "job interview" and the list is hundreds of pages long. it must have been peres and livni inviting him, wanting to undermine israel.

by returning everything it stole from the jews and giving up the land its crusaders conquered. Its easy to tell others to make sacrifices.

judaism,chistianity and islam containing incitement,slander,racist slurs and inappropriate language deemed to violate your terms of use so why do you think the holy land was always unholy? ww3 is always about the bad religions:judaism,christianity and islam

Oh well then. OK. Then you had best not accept it. There. Unaccepted. Does that feel better? Not accepting it? With all the respect that may be due to you based on your title and job description, go home to your little corner of Rome and get ready for Shimon the useless's visit. Weak tea. Warm gruel. He WILL "accept" that happily. Maybe you know of a good Italian restaurant in the neighborhood.