Israel revealed its true colors after ugly Palm Sunday screw-up

Mihaela Chircă

Holy Week in the Holy Land began with online hysteria. After Catholic Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and three prelates were wrongly denied access to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre at a police barrier, internet outrage spiraled into an international incident. But what could have been a diplomatic catastrophe showed the opposite: Israel apologized, kept its word — and demonstrated what makes it America’s model ally. Israeli police set events in motion by erecting a wooden barrier

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