Holocaust Guff
The Pope is in the Middle East, trying desparately to tiptoe around everyone.
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau is slightly upset because Benny didn’t mention that six million people died back in the big H:
“There is a clear difference between ‘killed’ and ‘murdered.’ There is a difference between saying millions in the Holocaust and saying six million. The word six was not said,” Lau, himself a Holocaust survivor, told Israel TV. “There was certainly no apology here.”
Of course, Rabbi Lau takes this whole Holocaust thing very seriously. He criticised the last Pope back in 2000:
Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Israel Meir Lau, said he hoped the Pope would make a more specific apology during his pilgrimage to Israel later this month, when he is due to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Lau said he was “a little bit disappointed” that the Pope had made no mention of the Holocaust or the controversial role of Pope Pius XII, who many Jews believe turned a blind eye to the Nazi death camps.
It’s highly amusing just how ridiculous this religious grandstanding from all sides is. One guy apologising for something that happened when he was a child, the other complaining that the apology wasn’t enough. Mister Rabbi, those people are gone. How about you get on with your life.
If I was one of those unfortunate people killed by the Nazis I’d hate to think that arseholes like Rabbi Lau would still be using it to score political points seventy years later. We’re all sorry for the Holocaust, okay? I’M SORRY. Happy now?
I am sorry. Even though I had nothing to do with any of it and even though it’s been almost seventy years and those people are long dead and most of the people who committed the crimes are long dead too. I am very sorry. I am a friend of Israel.
Whoops.
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