By Selwyn Duke

Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech at Israel’s Yad Veshem Holocaust
Memorial this past Monday, during which he paid tribute to the Jewish
victims of Nazi genocide. His words were not well-received by all,
however, as some Israeli critics expected an apology from Benedict and
felt that he was “restrained” in his remarks. Most notably, speaker of
the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, said, “[I was] hoping to hear an apology
and a request for forgiveness from those who caused our tragedy, and
among them, the Germans and the church. But to my sadness, I did not
hear any such thing." Reuters tells us that the speaker also “referred to Benedict as ‘a German who joined the Hitler Youth and … Hitler's army.’”

The Israeli speaker's remarks are ironic since he is falling victim
(assuming he’s sincere) to a technique that none other than Adolf
Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, spoke of when he
infamously said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.” In fact, Rivlin is in the
grip of at least a couple of big lies, ones that, lamentably, are
widely embraced.

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