<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Normally, when only asking a question draws a critical, angry or fearful response, you know you’ve touched a sore spot. </span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Let’s pray that a closer examination will lead to the truth… and help bring about a lasting & just peace in the region. Healing, however, will take a while</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">!</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks for this David. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dean. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-::-::-::-</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 7, 2025, at 11:49 PM, David Walsh via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr">
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<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><b>Israeli Official Criticizes Pope’s Call to Study 'Genocide' in Gaza</b></span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><b>By</b></span><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><b> </b></span><a href="https://sojo.net/biography/joshua-mcelwee-reuters"><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><b>Joshua
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</span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">An Israeli government minister criticized Pope Francis on Friday for suggesting th</span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">e 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>
<div><a href="https://sojo.net/biography/joshua-mcelwee-reuters"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span 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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