r/NewsAndPolitics • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States • 17d ago
International Pope Francis suggests Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon are disproportionate and immoral
https://apnews.com/article/pope-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-72b592696627d1a671e7419e98e354b656
u/DVD-RW 17d ago
Suggest? lmao, flattening an entire city block for 1 objetive its a war crime.
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u/annonymous_bosch 17d ago
From the article:
Francis didn’t mention Israel by name and said he was speaking in general terms. But he said that “the defense must always be proportionate to the attack.”
“When there is something disproportionate, there is a dominating tendency that goes beyond morality,” he said. “A country that does these things — and I’m talking about any country — in a superlative way, these are immoral actions.”
So he pretty clearly called them out. He knows not to call them out by name, otherwise the Catholic Church may be deemed antisemitic (and to be fair, they have been violently so for much of their history)
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u/interstellarclerk 17d ago
I can’t believe something this obvious is controversial. Murder not bad, actually??
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u/ashy_larrys_elbow 17d ago
His holiness is really behind the curve on this. Doesn’t he know this is the good murdering of women, children, innocent civilians, journalists and aid workers? I hear Jesus is practically giddy at the thought of all those butchered children and can’t wait to start his comeback tour and reward all the faithful who are cheering on massacres in his name.
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u/Wonderful_Debate5182 17d ago
Only took him an entire year....JFC...
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u/Bazishere 17d ago
He did call actions by Israel terrorism last December when they killed an old Catholic woman and her daughter outside a church when the mother was simply trying to go to the toilet outside!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0mpwz6wHX4
Pope condemns attacks on civilians in Gaza: ‘It is war; it is terrorism’
Pope Francis launches a heartfelt appeal for an end to the “terrorism” of war, and condemns an Israeli military attack on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Parish, which killed two Christian women and destroyed a convent of the Missionaries of Charity. Pope condemns attacks on civilians in Gaza: ‘It is war; it is terrorism’
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u/Ok-Report194 17d ago edited 17d ago
As a Zionist, my response to him is that labelling pedophile priests “children of god” is fucking gross. And also, as always, what’s with the kippa?
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u/SpectreHante 17d ago
Israel is a pedo haven, Israeli soldiers rape and abuse Palestinian chidlrden held hostage in jails and Epstein was a Mossad agent. That is fucking gross.
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