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Sunday, May 25, 2014
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
Netanyahu: Our hand’s outstretched for peace to anyone
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes Pope Francis, and praises recent good relations between the Holy See and the Jewish people. He says that when Pope Francis lights the torch at Yad Vashem on Monday, it will be an additional expression that anti-Semitism is a crime against humanity and the divine.
“In the heart of the Middle East, the turbulent and violent Middle East… Israel is an island of tolerance,” Netanyahu says, lauding the country’s tolerance for all faiths.
Netanyahu says he is “committed to maintaining the status quo at the holy sites of Muslims, Christians and Jews.”
“Our hand is outstretched for peace to anyone who will take it,” Netanyahu says.
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