Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times | Owen Jones

R.The death of major public figures can raise the most repercussions of hypocrisy. So go to Pope FrancisThe leaders praised by the media that were now complicit in evil from the evils he condemned. “The Pope Francis was the Pope of the poor and the oppressed,” said Kiir Starmer, the Prime Minister who stripped winter fuel payments from many weak retirees before an attack on the disability. Up to 400,000 Britons In poverty. “He promoted … the end of … suffering all over the world,” Joe Biden wroteEnabling the assault on the genocide of Israel on Gaza.

In fact, the fate of Gaza seemed to occupy the last years of the Pope. He has The last Easter addressHe condemned “death and destruction” and resulted in the “dramatic and unfortunate humanitarian situation” – a strong sermon that no Western media is covered. In fact, you will fight to find outstanding coverage of any of his courageous statements on Gaza, such as:This is not a war. This terrorism.“In him The final published article, The Pope repeated his support for a Palestinian state, declaring: “The manufacture of peace requires courage, more than war.”

Starmer noticed the work of Pope Francis with “Christians all over the world face war, famine, persecution and poverty.” However, he did not refer to how the Pope ranging the only Catholic Church of Gaza every day to provide solidarity and prayers – or how he was really afraid of a Christian society facing erasure after he lived in Gaza for more than 1,600 years.

Islamophobia has served a pivotal role in Palestinian life that is stripped of any value or meaning. But this disposal of humanity also goes beyond religion, because there was no little Western anger at the Israeli attack on Gaza St. Portferius ChurchOr the last strike on the Anglican Arab Arab Baptist HospitalOr the slaughter of many Christians, among them the elderly Mother and daughter Those who were shot dead at the hands of an Israeli sniper in the Church of the Holy Family on the eve of Christmas 2023. The church that the Pope rang every day was; Her school was attacked By the Israeli army last July.

Britain was not inactive. The Pope includes “Death and Destruction” that the Pope covers the bombs that rained on Gaza from F-35 aircraft-and become their Britain. Decisive ingredients. In his last book, The Pope indicated“According to some experts, what happens in Gaza has the characteristics of genocide.” However, the UK government refuses to describe one Israeli obscenity as a “war crime” – remember when Foreign Minister David Lami was Decomposition by 10 Just to say that Israel has broken international law.

Public personalities are always recognized in two ways. In cases of such Margaret Tischer, death establishes political divisions, and critics are dealt with as inappropriate and lack of respect if they draw attention to terrible legacies. If the dead respected the characters who were creative from the current situation during their lives, they instead face them to hinder them from their views after his death. This was the fate of Nelson Mandela, who declared the famous: “We know it well well Our freedom is incomplete Without the freedom of the Palestinians, ”again, those who refer to the authentic beliefs of the deceased risks are denounced that they seek to cause a division at the time of sadness.

In a harmful way, there is almost a refreshing thing about the sincerity of the American extremist politician Margori Taylor Green, That is tweetIn reference to the Pope: “Today there were great transformations in the world leaders. Evil is defeated by God.” Something surprisingly offensive to say. But how much does he do not respect him around the essence of the Pope’s beliefs and courageous positions, instead of providing generalized pages?

In fact, this was why the Pope’s role was very important. The West in the grip of the most extreme attacks on freedom of expression since Makarethia in the fifties of the last century, where the genocide of Israel has been extracted, threatened, expelled, expelled from universities, and the police officers assault, suspended, imprisoned, and now until now Facing deportation From countries including Germany And the United States. In this environment, Pope Francis was a remarkable exception to the base – and you could not cancel the Pope. Instead, political and media elites have sought the sprays he recorded in death as is the case in life – another plate of the strategy of eliminating scrutiny and accountability for this crime of historical proportions.

This was the extraordinary Pope who denounced Unbridled capitalism And “and”New colonialism“However, he was full of contradictions More acceptance For people of LGBTQ+ more than his predecessors while he was calling for what he called “gender ideology” as “the most dangerous dangerous” of our time. Rasouf, after all, is not a democratic official: those who are not believers see that their choice is arbitrary and not the will of God. Like any strong personality without a democratic mandate, whether the Pope is sympathetic to justice or is a matter of opportunity. Charitable Pope does not negate the need for the Catholic Church’s criticism, to take two example, treating abuse and opposition to childhood contraceptive during the HIV/AIDS in Africa.

But what matters this. If you think the huge crime occurs in front of our eyes, you should expect anyone with power and influence a situation. Let history record that this Pope took a position against one of the great horrors of our time.

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