When commentators compare the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, they choose their words badly. Whatever one might think of it, Israel’s invasion cannot be equated with the organised slaughter of more than six million men, women and children, most of them Jewish. Indeed, no event can, not even the Rwandan genocides, nor the Khmer Rouge’s disastrous ‘collectivisation’ drive in the 1970s.
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Pope Francis commented that the situation in the Catholic Church in the United States is “not easy,” where “there is a very strong reactionary attitude” that “is organized and shapes the way people belong, even emotionally.”