Misleading Claims
say, as did Pope Benedict XVI during his recent trip to the Middle East, "in a world where borders are increasingly open to trade, travel, mobility of people, cultural exchanges, it is tragic to see that still being erected walls "is, in my humble view, extremely misleading: much better, and certainly more appropriate and relevant to the truth, would say, if anything, that "it is tragic that we are forced to erect the walls' instead of saying that "it is tragic that they are erected."
Allow me to remind Benedict XVI, in fact, that Israel was forced to build that wall to protect its citizens from criminal attacks that have killed or maimed for ever, an impressive number. And next to the tragedy of division and disruption that the "Wall" undoubtedly means for the Palestinians, it was therefore appropriate and proper that he did not neglect to mention, as it did, including the causes, by no means free and insignificant, that led to the construction.
ENZO PEDROCCHI
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