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"What the Palestinians most wanted was for him to talk from the special stage they erected right in front of the wall that Israel built but Israel prevented that saying it is way too provocative." Thus NBC's Martin Fletcher covered the stagecraft of Pope Benedict XVI's pilgrimage to Bethlehem to say mass in Manger Square, the reputed birthplace of Jesus Christ. The Palestinians got their photo-op anyway, at least on NBC and CBS, as the 18-foot-high wall loomed over the Popemobile. "Israel calls it a security barrier and Palestinians call it an apartheid land grab," was how NBC's Fletcher narrated the images. On CBS, Richard Roth called it "the barrier around Bethlehem that Israel says has stopped suicide bombers and saved lives; Palestinians say, makes their home a prison."
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