[Sundaycommunity] POPE’S CALL TO STUDY 'GENOCIDE' IN GAZA

[Tina Neves]

Thank you David
Good that the Pope too, said this....

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM David Walsh via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

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> <https://sojo.net/>
> *Israeli Official Criticizes Pope’s Call to Study 'Genocide' in Gaza*
> *By* *Joshua McElwee, Reuters*
> <https://sojo.net/biography/joshua-mcelwee-reuters>
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> An Israeli government minister criticized Pope Francis on Friday for
> suggesting the international community should study whether
> Israel’s military offensive in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the
> Palestinian people.
> In an open letter published by Italian newspaper *Il Foglio*, Minister of
> Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said the pope’s remarks — made in excerpts
> published last month from a forthcoming book month — amounted to a
> “trivialisation” of the term genocide.
> “As a people who lost six million of its sons and daughters in the
> Holocaust, we are particularly sensitive to the trivialisation of the term
> ‘genocide’ - a trivialisation that comes dangerously close to Holocaust
> denial,” Chikli wrote.
> Chikli, who ended the letter by calling Francis “a dear friend of the
> Jewish people,” asked the pope “to clarify your position regarding the new
> accusation of genocide against the Jewish state.”
> The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the
> letter.
> Israel says accusations of genocide in Gaza are baseless and that it is
> solely hunting down Hamas militants and other Palestinian armed groups.
> The pope, as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is
> usually careful about taking sides in conflicts, but has recently been more
> outspoken about Israel’s military campaign against Palestinian militant
> group Hamas. In the book excerpts published by Italian daily *La Stampa*,
> the pontiff said some international experts said that “what is happening in
> Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide.”
> “We should investigate carefully to assess whether this fits into the
> technical definition (of genocide) formulated by international jurists and
> organisations,” the pope said.
> Authorities in the Gaza Strip say more than 45,000 Palestinians have been
> killed and more than 107,000 injured in Israel’s offensive, and most of the
> enclave’s more than 2 million people are homeless or displaced.
> *Joshua McElwee, Reuters*
> <https://sojo.net/biography/joshua-mcelwee-reuters>
> Joshua McElwee is a reporter for Reuters.
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