The Pope doesn't write off entire populations. If one lamb is missing, the shepherd goes off to find it.
The Pope doesn't think of populations as "us" or "them." He is concerned with individual souls, wherever they may be. Turning a cold shoulder to the Palis and pretending they don't exist is surely a poor plan for bringing peace to the area.
As an American you may desire the extermination or removal of these people to other Arab lands. But a Pope has a different job.
SD
You misunderstood my comment. I agree that the Pope and everyone should so some sympathy for the Palestinians this week. However, the lost opportunity is that for forty years, they were led by a terrorist and murderer and only in his death and after the deaths of hundreds of thousands of jews and christians are we able to reach out.
That's bull$hit. I was Catholic for six years in the Eighties and Nineties, and I never felt that the Pope was concerned about anything us "poor, dumb rednecks" cared about. All he has done is exalt the cultures of historically Catholic countries while promoting higher criticism and evolution.
An article in my diocese's official publication stated that from now on the Catholic Church would concentrate on "intellectuals" and leave the simpletons to the Fundamentalist churches. This Pope has done or said nothing that contradicts that policy.