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Thu 03 Mar 2007Bishops criticised for Jewish ghetto comparisonGERMANY:The Israeli ambassador to Germany has criticised German bishops for drawing a comparison between the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied WarsawThe bishops made their remarks during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial site in Jerusalem on a tour of Israel and the Palestinian territories.