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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">David,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks for this.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The question about possible Israeli genocide features in the Israeli government’s actions, outreach and motives is important in terms of the world’s (humanity’s) view of these
actions and their motives—and the world’s response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It is clear that Netanyahu and the Israeli government decided long ago that all its/their actions are essentially ‘defensive’ responses of self-protection. For many, outside
the Israeli fold, iIt is simply self-serving belligerence that we have seen for months now.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We must pray and act in light of human actions, human suffering and human needs—beyond self-interest..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">David, thanks for your regular addressing of the issues and actions at this clear and profound level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity-bounces@lists.integralshift.ca> on behalf of David Walsh via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Sunday Community (sundaycommunity@integralshift.ca) <sundaycommunity@integralshift.ca><br>
<b>Cc: </b>David Walsh <david@dwalsh.ca><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Sundaycommunity] POPE’S CALL TO STUDY 'GENOCIDE' IN GAZA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">Israeli Official Criticizes Pope’s Call to Study 'Genocide' in Gaza</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;text-transform:uppercase">By </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://sojo.net/biography/joshua-mcelwee-reuters"><b><span style="text-transform:uppercase">Joshua
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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.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">“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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Israel says accusations of genocide in Gaza are baseless and that it is solely hunting down Hamas militants and other Palestinian armed groups.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">“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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://sojo.net/biography/joshua-mcelwee-reuters"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Joshua McElwee, Reuters</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console",serif;color:#495057">Joshua McElwee is a reporter for Reuters.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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