I see your visit to the Holy Land as a  mission of planting seeds of tolerance and and uprooting the weeds of fanaticism.

I came to visit this country as a friend of the Israelis, just as I am a friend of the Palestinian people.

Your journey to the Holy Land was a profound demonstration of the enduring dialogue between the Jewish people and the hundreds of millions of Christian believers throughout the world.

I have come to stand in silence before this monument, erected to honor the memory of the millions of Jews killed in the horrific tragedy of the Shoah.

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,send your peace upon this Holy Land, upon the Middle East.