The director of Israel’s Holocaust memorial has said he was “appalled and surprised” by comments three Roman Catholic bishops from Germany made that compared conditions in the West Bank to the Holocaust. “The remarks illustrate a woeful ignorance of history and a distorted sense of perspective. Israel’s actions do not bear any resemblance to the Nazis,” Avner Shalev, director of the Yad Vashem memorial, wrote in a letter Tuesday to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, head of the German Bishops Conference. Full Story