Francis condemns ‘terrorism’ against Palestinians
Pope Francis has condemned the Israeli occupation and its military as terrorists. In a speech the Holy Father described the terrorism of Israeli forces bombing and shooting civilians in Gaza – including Palestinian Christians:
Israel is a terror state and is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. The UK government is complicit until it publicly condemns the war crimes and ends all material and political support to the apartheid, genocidal state.
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Even the man of god has told them yet on it goes greedie people’s allowing this murdering of another racec
“It’s Terrorism” pure and simple. Thank you, Pope Francis, for showing the bravery and courage to tell a world that argues 2 + 2 = 9 in order to not criticise ethnic cleansing and a supposed-democracy’s state-driven genocide and murder of innocents.
Before he was Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio easily recognised the intensive scale of political repression by the US-endorsed military junta and its “dirty war” in his native Argentina. This ability – and his position of leader of the world’s 1.5 billion Roman Catholics – gives him the courage and bravery to condemn Israel’s disgusting actions today. Thank you Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
In case you’re interested,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War.
Strikes me that Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and David Lammy would have felt very comfortable there.
Thank you for the link.
Its all falling apart… heid
‘Israel (defence force) are terrorists’. says the pontiff.
But it’s not quite that black & white..just ask david lammy.
This is from last December, which is fair enough, except that it leads everyone to believe the pope said it just recently:
Anyway, I was checking out MediaLens earlier – which I haven’t done for quite a while – and came across this excellent article from June 26th:
Did The West Provoke The Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled
Is it possible for an entire ‘mainstream’ media system – every newspaper, website, TV channel – to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following.
In February 2022, Nigel Farage, former and future leader of the Reform UK party, tweeted that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was:
‘A consequence of EU and NATO expansion, which came to a head in 2014. It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick.’
In a recent interview, the BBC reminded Farage of this comment. He responded:
‘Why did I say that? It was obvious to me that the ever-eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man [Putin] a reason to his Russian people to say they’re coming for us again, and to go to war.
‘We’ve provoked this war – of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse.’
The BBC quickly made this a major news story by publishing a front page, top headline piece by BBC journalist Becky Morton who cited, and repeated, high-level sources attacking Farage. Morton wrote:
‘Former Conservative Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who is not standing in the election, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Mr Farage was like a “pub bore we’ve all met at the end of the bar”.’
And:
‘Conservative Home Secretary James Cleverly said Mr Farage was echoing Mr Putin’s “vile justification” for the war and Labour branded him “unfit” for any political office.’
And further on in the article:
In June 2022, Ramzy Baroud interviewed Noam Chomsky:
‘Chomsky told us that it “should be clear that the (Russian) invasion of Ukraine has no (moral) justification.” He compared it to the US invasion of Iraq, seeing it as an example of “supreme international crime.” With this moral question settled, Chomsky believes that the main “background” of this war, a factor that is missing in mainstream media coverage, is “NATO expansion.”
‘”This is not just my opinion,” said Chomsky, “it is the opinion of every high-level US official in the diplomatic services who has any familiarity with Russia and Eastern Europe. This goes back to George Kennan and, in the 1990s, Reagan’s ambassador Jack Matlock, including the current director of the CIA; in fact, just everybody who knows anything has been warning Washington that it is reckless and provocative to ignore Russia’s very clear and explicit red lines. That goes way before (Vladimir) Putin, it has nothing to do with him; (Mikhail) Gorbachev, all said the same thing. Ukraine and Georgia cannot join NATO, this is the geostrategic heartland of Russia.”’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUX3PoGI25c
I am in fact just reminding people that these scumbags who deliberately provoked Russia/Putin into taking military action are wholly responsible for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have been killed and maimed (on both sides), and the millions who have been displaced and their lives turned upsidedown, and the devastation and untold pain of those who have lost a loved one in the conflict.
NB There is in fact a very moving documentary on Iplayer (that was aired a few weeks ago late one night on BBC2) called Hell Jumper, about a young English guy who went out to Ukraine to volunteer….. Don’t let the title put you off (90 mins)
PS The pope has in fact commented on the Ukraine war on several occasions (well at least twice anyway). The following is from an Al Jazeera article posted in June:
Pope Francis has made new remarks on the war in Ukraine, praising “brave” Ukrainians for fighting for survival but also suggesting the situation was not black and white and that the war was “perhaps somehow either provoked or not prevented”.
“This is what moves us: to see such heroism. I would really like to emphasise this point, the heroism of the Ukrainian people. What is before our eyes is a situation of world war, global interests, arms sales and geopolitical appropriation, which is martyring a heroic people,” he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/14/pope-francis-says-war-in-ukraine-perhaps-in-some-way-provoked
I haven’t checked how widely this was covered by the MSM (in the UK and US and other Nato countries), but I suspect that any MS media outlts that DID cover it, didn’t include the above passage, and ESPECIALLY the last six words – ie ‘…. which is martyring a heroic people’. And what he is saying, in effect, is that it COULD have been prevented in the first place if the US/Nato had addressed Russia’s security concerns.