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Ex-senior diplomats denounce government for snubbing pope’s funeral
The absence of a senior government representative at Pope Francis’s funeral was a “serious diplomatic mistake,” a group of former Israeli ambassadors and senior diplomats says.
The Forum on Foreign Relations notes that heads of state, many of them not Catholic, attended the funeral to pay their last respects.
Israel’s absence gives the government a “poor rating” among the rest of the world, the forum says.
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