Weizman said, adding that Jerusalem is
the "heart of the Jewish people."
The political debate between Israel
and the Palestinians on Jerusalem heat-
ed up this week ahead of the pope's •
visit. Israel declared it would not allow
the Palestinians to try to gain politically
from the visit. This came after
Palestinians on Sunday floated a bal-
loon over Orient House in eastern
Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority's de
facto headquarters, bearing the Vatican
and Israeli flags.
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Palestinian "Torment"
The pope's pilgrimage to sites linked to
the birthplace and life of Jesus were
expected to take him to Bethlehem,
Nazareth and Jerusalem. Many hoped
that his visit to the Yad Vashem
Holocaust Center scheduled for
Thursday would produce words about
the suffering of the Shoah equivalent to
his declarations about Palestinian suffer-
ing.
"Your torment is in the eyes of the
world. And it has gone on too long," he
told his Palestinian audience.
The Palestinian people, he contin-
ued, "have the natural right to a home-
land and the right to live in peace and
tranquility with the other peoples of
this area."
He said that a peace "secured
through negotiation" could fulfill their
homes. Only when there is such a
peace, he said, "will the Holy Land see
the possibility of a bright new future,
no longer dissipated by rivalry and con-
flict, but firmly based on understanding
and cooperation for the good of all."
It was not immediately clear how. the
public rhetoric would translate in his
later private meetings scheduled with
Israeli leaders, the chief rabbis of Israel
and Palestinian Authority President
Yasser Arafat.
Israel has taken unprecedented secu-
rity measures for the visit, including sta-
tioning thousands of police officers and
detaining right-wing Jewish extremists
suspected of distributing anti-pope
posters and planning to disrupt the visit.
The front pages of Israeli newspapers
were dominated Tuesday by the papal
visit. The Israeli daily Ma'ariv summed
the visit up, welcoming the pope in
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