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The Star
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Vatican has downplay Pope Benedict's Teenage membership of the Hitler Jugend on Tuesday as Israeli disappointment over a lack of emotion in his comments about the Holocaust haunted his visit to the Holy Land.

Guardian Unlimited
pontiff holds mass as part of the visit to the Palestinian territories Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the West Bank city of Bethlehem today as part of a visit that the Palestinians hope will to draw attention to their suffering under Israeli military rule. The high priest of the motorcade drove through an intersection in Israel the West Bank separation wall towering before being greeted by the Palestinian president, ...

Worldnet Daily
JERUSALEM Christians are the "backbone" of American support for the Jewish state and could be crucial for lobbying legislators to support White House policy may be harmful to Israel, according to a Mideast journalist and writer.

Adnkronos
Mideast: Vatican rejects cricitism of Pope Benedict XVI (AKI) - The Vatican has Tuesday strongly rejected criticism of Pope Benedict XVI by Jewish leaders after his speech in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, and denied the pontiff was once a member of Hitler's youth. "The pope has never been in the Hitler Jugend, never never never", Federico Lombardi, Vatican City media ...