#Pope_Francis calls for two-state solution, stops at Israeli apartheid wall
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A handout picture released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis praying at #Israel's separation barrier on May 25, 2014 after he made an unscheduled stop at the security wall drawing attention to the towering eight-meter high concrete wall topped by a guard tower. (Photo: AFP / Osservatore Romano)
Pope Francis made an unscheduled stop at Israel’s towering West Bank apartheid wall in Bethlehem Sunday after calling for an end to the “increasingly unacceptable” Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The pope has said his three-day visit to the Middle East, which began in Jordan Saturday, has “purely religious” motives, but Palestinians hoped he would show support for statehood, weeks after the collapse of US-brokered peace talks with the Israelis. Francis was to (...)