The Vatican said it hopes the pope’s silence in the face of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel comments made by Syrian President Bashar Assad and other Syrian officials during the pope’s visit to Syria this week would not damage Vatican relations with the Jewish state. “We were guests in that country, and the position of the Holy See regarding anti-Semitism has been expressed thousands of times in very clear language,” a Vatican spokesman said.
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