Leibish Teitelbaum is the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist victim of the Mumbai terror attack who had his coffin returned to Israel draped with the Israeli flag - against the wishes of his family and in opposition to his own sincerely held beliefs. Edith Stein was a Carmelite nun who was taken from her convent and murdered by the Nazis only because she was Jewish (the other members of her order were left unmolested) In 1998, she was canonized by John Paul II who nakedly used her memory to claim victimhood for the Church in the Holocaust.
What do the two have in common? Only this: Both Stein and Teitelbaum had their memories usurped for political purposes. How are the two unalike? In many ways, of course, but the one I wish to recognize here is this: The Church used Stein to tell a lie. The Holocaust was not a war on Catholics and the survival of the other nuns in her convent makes plain the Church's deception. Israel, on the other hand, used Leibish Teitelbaum to tell the truth: Israelis, often, are innocent victims of horrible atrocities.
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