Vatican cardinal calls Gaza "big concentration camp"

by SOLARLIFE | January 8, 2009 at 05:16 am
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Vatican, Cardinal Martino says No

to Egoism, hate, poverty, injustice

and Israeli attack on "Gaza concentration camp"

Pope Benedict visit May 2009

The pope is due to visit Holy Land sites in Jordan, Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank in May

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Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace,

Pope Benedict's point man for justice and peace issues on Wednesday issued the Vatican's toughest criticism of Israel since the latest Mideast crisis began, calling Gaza a "big concentration camp".

Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace, made his comments in an interview in the Italian online newspaper Il Sussidiario.net. "Defenceless populations are always the ones who pay. Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp", Martino, whose informal title is Vatican "justice minister", was quoted as saying. Pope Benedict has made several general appeals for an end to the violence in Gaza but has not openly criticised Israel.

The pope is due to visit Holy Land sites in Jordan, Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank in May.

Interview Marino Online-journal Il Sussidiario.


Nell’intervista del Cardinale Martino leggo: «le conseguenze dell’egoismo sono l’odio per l’altro, la povertà e l’ingiustizia. A pagare sono sempre le popolazioni inermi. Guardiamo le condizioni di Gaza: assomiglia sempre più ad un grande campo di concentramento». Forse bisognerebbe andarci piano con i confronti, ma se anche quella parola – campo di concentramento – fosse appropriata bisognerebbe specificare subito chi ne tiene le chiavi, chi sono i carcerieri. Altrimenti si rischia, restando nel vago, di dar credito alla parola d’ordine “Gaza come Auschwitz, ebrei come nuovi nazisti” tanto cara a certi movimenti di estrema sinistra filoislamista. Gaza poteva essere il primo nucleo del nuovo stato palestinese – dopo la fine dell’occupazione– e invece un movimento terrorista, Hamas, se ne è impadronito facendone una piattaforma di lancio per missili verso Israele e una base da cui si prepara il nuovo capitolo dello scontro con l’“entità sionista” da eliminare. Se non si parla chiaro, Eminenza, e non si dicono le cose con il nome e il cognome quell’ingiustizia che Lei giustamente depreca diventerà un nostro peccato.

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Blue Crush

"Pope Benedict condemned the violence by both sides in Gaza, a day after one of his senior aides angered Jews by calling the strip "a big concentration camp."   He urged a return to peace negotiations, saying the military option is not a solution and violence must be firmly condemned."

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SOLARLIFE

Blue Crush ..Pope Benedict condemned the violence in Gaza, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace made Israel responsible for holding Prisoners in a concentration camp "Guardiamo le condizioni di Gaza: assomiglia sempre più ad un grande campo di concentramento" (original text in italian) the article is about Cardinal Martino not the Pope.

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