Letters Daily Edition

• Published in: The Jerusalem post
• Main Author: Abe Krieger, Delphine Amrhein, Larry Smith, Uri Weissman, Jane Hirsch, Martin Schiffmiller, Michael Rende, Lee Jakeman, G. Zone, Alan Stein, Shachaf Tcherni, Ronny Schnapp, Eric Polly
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 01.08.2005
• Subjects: Blair, Tony; Bush, George; Horovitz, David

Sir, - Re "Israel wants truce with Vatican in verbal war on terror" (July 31): Will Israel in particular and Jews in general stop whining every time the pope says something we don't like, or doesn't say something we think he should say? He is a pope, for God's sake, not a rabbi. Sir, - The Vatican is playing offended. In the whole 1,300-word statement it couldn't find the words to say we condemn the terrorists who killed Jews in Netanya, or explain why only Israel was omitted from the terrorist actions it condemned. There is no reason for Israel to back down from its just complaint. In sharply criticizing Israel for its protest against Pope Benedict's omission of Israel in his statement on world terrorism, the Vatican rationalized the exclusion "for various reasons, among them the fact that the attacks against Israel sometimes were followed by immediate Israeli reactions not always compatible with the rules of international law."