Here’s some insightful analysis from those nice “business professionals” down at Hamas (and an editorial on the report here). As it explains: “For example, Hamas’ newspaper, Al-Rissalah , which is published in Gaza , printed an anti-Semitic article attacking Pope John Paul II for his sympathetic attitude to the Jews ( April 7, 2005 ). It directed most of its wrath at the fact that the Pope had ‘absolved modern-day Jews from the guilt of having murdered Jesus.’ The author considered the absolution ‘a terrific heresy’ in the Christian faith and noted that modern-day Jews were ‘criminals like their ancestors.’ He also complained about the Pope’s attitude toward the Holocaust: the Pope’s request that the Christians apologize to the Jews and ask forgiveness was ‘a service to the Zionists,’ calling it “Pope John Paul II’s worst crime…’”