Pope Francis Wants the Israel-Terrorist War to Be Proportionate

Pope Francis has condemned the “massacre” of 153 women and children in Gaza, saying the victims were “innocent.”

Following his Angelus prayer on the Feast of All Saints, the pontiff remembered “all the peoples who are suffering because of war,” adding that “war is always a defeat, always!”

War is “ignoble,” he continued, “because it is the triumph of the lie, of falsehood: one seeks the greatest interest for oneself and the greatest damage for the adversary, trampling on human lives, the environment, the infrastructure, everything; and all disguised with lies.”

“The innocent suffer!” he declared. “I think of the 153 women and children massacred in Gaza in recent days.”

On Sunday, Francis picked up on the same theme, citing Article 11 of the Italian Constitution: “Italy rejects war as an instrument of aggression against the freedom of other peoples and as a means for the settlement of international disputes.”

May this principle “be implemented all over the world: may war be banished and issues be addressed through law and negotiations,” he said. “Let weapons be silenced and space be made for dialogue.”

He then went on to pray by name “for tormented Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar, and South Sudan.”

Breitbart Recalls Pope Francis’s Comments Last Month

Last month, the pope called out Israel for what he described as its “domineering tendency” in Lebanon and Gaza, insisting that its response to attacks has been “disproportionate.”

Asked by a journalist whether he thinks Israel “has perhaps gone too far” in the force used in the targeted assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah

Francis replied that he calls the Catholic parish in Gaza daily, and they “tell me the things that happen, including the cruelties that take place there.”

“The defense must always be proportionate to the attack,” he continued. “When there is something disproportionate, a dominating tendency that goes beyond morality is evident.”

“A country that uses force to do these things – I am talking about any country – to do these things in such a ‘superlative’ way, these are immoral actions,” he said.

How do people have proportionate wars and expect to win? Do they let your people get killed until it all evens out? It is horrible to see children killed, and the war needs to end, but tell that to the terrorists, too. If Donald Trump gets into office, he’ll cut off Iran’s funds so they can’t terrorize the world. He did do that last time, and Biden-Harris reversed it. Blame Biden Harris and the terrorists before blaming Israel.

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