JERUSALEM -- Israel said Saturday it was shocked and distressed by a senior Vatican cardinal's likening of Gaza under Israel's military offensive to a concentration camp.
A spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry said the cardinal, whose remarks appeared in an interview Wednesday, adopted the kind of language that Hamas and other Islamic militant groups have used to demonize Israel and equate it with Nazi Germany.
"It was shocking to hear the same kind of terminology from such a high-ranking member of the church," Israeli spokesman Yigal Palmor said Saturday.
Cardinal Renato Martino, a former Vatican envoy to the United Nations and now Pope Benedict XVI's top official on issues of peace and justice, said in the interview that Gaza now resembles a "big concentration camp."
What do you think?
Monday January 12, 2009
Categories: Public Issues
Recently a senior Vatican official compared Gaza to a concentration camp? Two questions: (1) What are the conditions of Palestinians in the Gaza strip? (2) How appropriate is this kind of language?
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The ongoing tragedy... Again, I urge you to read Jimmy Carter's provocative book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." I agree that the Vatican language was inappropriate, but I think the apartheid description may be appropriate. It pains be that a people so abused for centuries have become the abusers. Of course, Hamas is also a large part of the problem, but until Israel withdraws to their UN mandated boundaries and tears down the fences, Hamas or a similar group will have the support of the Palestine people and there will be no end to the tragedy. Israel needs tough love from the people and government who support her-us. Only when she does what she has promised to do, withdraw to the her original boundaries and tear down the fences can many of us support her without serious qualifications.
Doug
Derek @ 28, "Are you saying you should let yourself die rather than respond?"
Yes, I think that's exactly what he's saying. You may not agree, but this shouldn't be an unknown position to you. Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday is next week. You should probably read up on him a bit.
Travis, I would also add Ghandi alongside MLKJr. And what of Christ also?
In answer to your question, I'm wondering what we should call something like 130 square miles of land, surrounded on two sides by Israeli fences/walls/checkpoints, a small area that the Egyptians control, and the sea on the fourth side, an area that no one is allowed to leave, and an area that has been under siege for about 2 years, letting little if anything in (except what is smuggled in or brought in by relief trucks), but if that's not a concentration camp, is it a reservation, or is it the world's largest prison?
#28 Derek:
Yeah, this isn't the popular opinion, but maybe the Israelis should leave. There is lots of land of greater value in the world which no one would mind if they lived there. The reality is that if Israel wanted to move, the world would help them move and they would be better off.
and #32 Bob:
You are right on. Gaza is a prison. Gaza is also a reservation. Gaza is also a ghetto. Gaza is also an interment camp. and yes, gaza is a concentration camp, that this week has been a death camp.
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