Pope Francis launches a heartfelt appeal for an end to the “terrorism” of war, and condemns an Israeli military attack on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic ...
He’s right on this one. We shouldn’t be supporting a government that kills civilians no matter how much they try to justify it with saying there were legitimate targets behind them.
Often the excuse isn’t even “bad guys behind the civilians” it’s “probably bad guys somewhere sort of in the general area, but we didn’t actually check first”.
Oh yeah, then there’s the “old lady trying to drag her dying mother into a church” those are always valid targets, apparently. As is the old lady’s mother before the whole being drug into a church thing.
He’s right on this one. We shouldn’t be supporting a government that kills civilians no matter how much they try to justify it with saying there were legitimate targets behind them.
Often the excuse isn’t even “bad guys behind the civilians” it’s “probably bad guys somewhere sort of in the general area, but we didn’t actually check first”.
Oh yeah, then there’s the “old lady trying to drag her dying mother into a church” those are always valid targets, apparently. As is the old lady’s mother before the whole being drug into a church thing.