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type="cite"><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span
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style="font-size:12pt;">“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.</span></font></span></font></blockquote>
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Criticizes Pope’s Call to Study 'Genocide' in Gaza</b></span></span></font></div>
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McElwee, Reuters</b></span></a></span></font></div>
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style="font-size:12pt;">An Israeli government minister
criticized Pope Francis on Friday for suggesting th</span></font><font
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international community
should study whether Israel’s military offensive in
Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.</span></font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">In an open letter
published by Italian newspaper <i>Il Foglio</i>,
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.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">“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.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">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.”</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The Vatican did not
immediately respond to a request for comment on the
letter.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Israel says
accusations of genocide in Gaza are baseless and that it
is solely hunting down Hamas militants and other
Palestinian armed groups.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">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 <i>La Stampa</i>, the pontiff said some
international experts said that “what is happening in
Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide.”</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">“We should
investigate carefully to assess whether this fits into
the technical definition (of genocide) formulated by
international jurists and organisations,” the
pope said.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">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.</span></font></div>
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style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Joshua McElwee, Reuters</b></span></font></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Lucida Console"
size="3" color="#495057"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Joshua
McElwee is a reporter for Reuters.</span></font></div>
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