Hours after historic visit to Jerusalem holocaust museum, group of German bishops tour Palestinian Authority, say Israel behaving like Nazis

Not only did they liken Ramallah to the Warsaw Ghetto, this bunch of cowards lacked the courage to make such an immoral comparison while they were among the Jews. They waited until they were among a people who had inherited the hatred of the Nazis from their Palestinian Nazi leader during WWII, friend of Hitler Haj Amin al-Husseini.

During their time in Israel the bishops uniformly made moderate and balanced statements, but once in the PA they provided German reporters accompanying them with a plethora of harsh proclamations against Israel.

While crossing one of the checkpoints into East Jerusalem the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, told reporters: "This is something that is done to animals, not people." Meisner, a resident of eastern Germany, said that the fence reminded him of the Berlin Wall and that in his lifetime he did not believe he would see such a thing again. As the Berlin Wall was brought down so will this wall be brought down, he said, adding that the fence served no purpose.

No, of course, saving the lives of innocent Jews from genocidal terrorists – that’s ‘no purpose’ in the eyes of Meisner. “Why bother?” he must be thinking, “They’re only untermenschen.”

The delegation's visit to Ramallah took place several hours after their visit to Yad Vashem and several of the bishops chose to equate the situation in the Palestinian Authority with the Holocaust.

So the people of Ramallah are being deliberately starved to death, and those who survive will be carted off to gas chambers? And the Jews in 1930’s Germany used to carry out suicide bombings against the Nazis? Just how ignorant are these bishops?

Where else can you read the claim that there are Palestinian concentration camps? On anti-Semitic websites like Jew Watch of course.

And who was it who declared that “hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.”? It’s been attributed to various Fathers of the Church; St John Chrysostom is one popular choice but there are others:

Even Saint John Eudes tells us: 'The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops'. This is a take on Saint Athanasius' original statement: "The floor of hell is covered with the skulls of bishops."

Here are some more:

There is an oft-quoted remark, one I have never been able to track down, variously attributed to St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, St. John of the Cross, St. Athanasius, and, who knows, probably even Attila the Hun, to the effect that the floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.

The idea seems to have occurred to a lot of people. I imagine the Highways Department of the Fiery Lower Regions are looking forward to the eventual arrival of the German Bishops, to assist them with some road re-surfacing.