Honking at the Pope

A statement was released on Sunday by the Generation to Generation Bearers of the Holocaust and Heroism Legacy organization, calling on Israeli drivers to honk their horns on Monday at 6 p.m. in protest of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Yad Vashem. The statement read, "With a short honk, Israeli citizens across the country will express their disgust for the visit of the pope who encourages Holocaust deniers and displays of anti-Semitism." I know if I had been there, I might have damn near worn my car's horn out honking out my derision for this backward-thinking waste of time currently holding the title of pope.
The funky-hatted one, formerly of both the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht, visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of his visit to various sites in the middle east. The Legacy Organization wanted the horn-honking protest because they've got their collective shorts in a knot over one or two sticklers, like Benny lifting the excommunication from the Holocaust denier, Bishop Richard Williamson; Benny concluding the canonization of Hitler's Pope; and Benny's decreeing in 2007 that the rather anti-Semitic Good Friday prayer must be used in all celebrations of the Liturgy of Good Friday. This prayer, for those who may not be aware, has long been a bone of contention between Jews and the RC church. During its history, it has gone through various wordings, some of them more outright insulting and defamatory, but all of them asking the almighty to make the Jews aware of the error of their ways in not accepting Jesus as their saviour. It does seem a little contradictory to claim you respect the people you pray will be converted AWAY from their faith and into yours.
During his visit to the Holocaust Memorial, Benedict apparently spoke at length about the importance of remembering the victims of the Holocaust, as though he actually cared. He ended his speech, however, with an admonition to "all people of goodwill (to) remain vigilant in rooting out from the heart of man anything that could lead to tragedies such as this!" which one does he really want; Catholicism to continue mouthing the Good Friday invocation of almighty influence in effectively bringing to an end the practise of Judaism; or the peaceful tolerance of each for the other? You can't have both, Benny.