I just think the Pope should come out unequivacally for Good over Evil when it most counts.
What he may have said yesterday is not today.
And have you read what the Pope has said? "I appeal to the authorities on both sides to take courageous decisions in favor of peace and bring an end to a conflict with negative repercussions on the entire Middle East, which is already tormented by too many conflicts and so in need of peace and reconciliation," the pontiff said.
"I feel the need to once again say that hate and violence are not solutions to problems. I also encourage the efforts of those working for a truce and to promote negotiations," he said.
Let me guess, you haven't read this anywhere -- the media certainly doesn't want to publish things like this do they..."hate and violence" -- who were the ones who started this firing? Hamas? Who tried diplomacy first? The Israelis. Who continued to fire rockets even after the cease-fire? Hamas
Hate and violence as we see here is from Hamas, not from Israel
did you, onedoug, read about this? No. And yet everyone is demanding "why has he not said anything", yet when he does, there is silence. why?
And have you read what the Pope has said? "I appeal to the authorities on both sides to take courageous decisions in favor of peace and bring an end to a conflict with negative repercussions on the entire Middle East, which is already tormented by too many conflicts and so in need of peace and reconciliation," the pontiff said.
"I feel the need to once again say that hate and violence are not solutions to problems. I also encourage the efforts of those working for a truce and to promote negotiations," he said.
also, onedoug, note that you said "the Pope has some splaining to do" -- what explaining? firstly this CArdinal didn't even say what this false, lying article says he says, secondly what he did say was in a different context and not about Israel but about conflict in the ME for centuries as a whole as a comment on a book
thirdly, should the pope respond to every lie posted by Arutz and other Main stream media?
This is the MSM which doesn't report “The recent barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza into Southern Israel represents a continuing pattern of morally unjustifiable uses of indiscriminate force against civilians,” - Bishop Richard Pates, Chairman of the USCCB Justice-and-Peace Committee
And have you read what the Pope has said? "I appeal to the authorities on both sides to take courageous decisions in favor of peace and bring an end to a conflict with negative repercussions on the entire Middle East, which is already tormented by too many conflicts and so in need of peace and reconciliation," the pontiff said.
"I feel the need to once again say that hate and violence are not solutions to problems. I also encourage the efforts of those working for a truce and to promote negotiations," he said.
also, onedoug, note that you said "the Pope has some splaining to do" -- what explaining? firstly this CArdinal didn't even say what this false, lying article says he says, secondly what he did say was in a different context and not about Israel but about conflict in the ME for centuries as a whole as a comment on a book
thirdly, should the pope respond to every lie posted by Arutz and other Main stream media?
This is the MSM which doesn't report “The recent barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza into Southern Israel represents a continuing pattern of morally unjustifiable uses of indiscriminate force against civilians,” - Bishop Richard Pates, Chairman of the USCCB Justice-and-Peace Committee