Gaza Comments Criticized
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:18 AM
A Palestinian woman surveys her damaged house after an Israeli airstrike Jan. 1 in Gaza. (CNS/Reuters)
Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, today lamented the plight of those living in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
“Defenseless populations are always the ones who pay,” Cardinal Martino said in comments made to the Italian website Il Sussidiario, BBC reported. “Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration... READ MORE
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The Vatican and Gaza
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, January 05, 2009 1:26 PM
Palestinian man processes in Bethlehem Jan. 4 for peace in Gaza. (CNS)
Since 2007, Hamas has increased its rocket attacks on Israel and built new ones that threaten around 860,000 Israeli civilians.
Furthermore, the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip has driven the territory’s Christian community into greater hardship, causing them to emigrate in even larger numbers.
Yet these facts are rarely discussed in Church commentaries about the strife... READ MORE
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Is Israel Overreacting in Gaza?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:10 PM
Protesters stomp on U.S flag during Dec. 29 anti-Israeli protest. (CNS/Reuters)
Catholic commentator Pat Buchanan unequivocally supports the existence of Israel and the right of the Jewish state to defend itself.
But Buchanan also thinks the intensity of the military response by Israel in the Gaza Strip to rocket attacks launched by Gaza’s ruling Hamas faction is neither justified nor prudent.
“About Israel’s right and duty to defend its border towns, there is no... READ MORE
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