Pope to Israelis: 'Tear down this wall!'

by John L. Allen Jr.

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On his lone day in the Palestinian Territories, Pope Benedict delivered the papal equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 “tear down this wall!” speech in Berlin. Standing in a Palestinian refugee camp located in the shadow of Israel’s towering security wall, Benedict forcefully criticized such barriers between peoples. Read the story.

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