I don’t believe this article for a minute. The left in Israel is desperate to have religious Jews seen by the world as “zealots.” Not to mention they want to shackle Netanyahu as much as they can. The left there is as bad as the left here.
I don’t know whether you’re Catholic or Jewish, but I agree with you on that one. Is see this article from the Britsh press as a product of two common sentiments on the left: A hatred of all things Catholic, for the normal socio-political reasons, and an attept to discredit right in Isreal. The Palestinians are the good guy’s when the left is reporting, and any small reason a journalist might find to remind everyone that Joseph Ratzinger was tight with Goering and spent the war hunting down Jews and homosexuals is like opening up the bar to an alchoholic. These are the same people who group what’s happing in Ireland right now with what’s happening in Gaza, just because even coverage of terrorism requires a certain amound of affirmative action. Got to meet the white faces quota somehow.
Isreal has its handful of nutjobs, just like any other country. That’s all this is. The British press actually thinks we still have a KKK problem in this country. And they’re the ones with skinheads running all over the place.