Welcome remarks by President Peres to Pope Benedict XVI at Ben-Gurion Airport - “ I see your visit here, to the Holy Land, as an important spiritual mission of the highest order: a mission of peace. A mission of planting seeds of tolerance and and uprooting the weeds of fanaticism. I appreciate your stances and your actions to bring down the level of violence and hatred in the world. I am certain that this will be a continuation of the dialogue between Judaism and Christianity in the spirit of the Prophets. “

CRIF, May 7 - Richard Prasquier, tells us that one of his father’s friends was fond of reading an anti-Semitic newspaper. He would not go through the Jewish press where Jews stood as powerless victims of anti-Semitism and misery. He would feel depressed. On the opposite, in an anti-Semitic newspaper, he could read that Jews rule the whole world whether it be finance, industry, politics and news. That made him feel great.