Chris Doss
The Russia Journal
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> arabicnews
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> Vatican launches war against Israeli crimes
> Palestine-Vatican, Politics, 4/15/2002
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> The Vatican launched a semi-official warfare against Israel terming its
> re-occupation of Palestinian territories as genocide against the
Palestinian
> people, due to which the international community must intervene.
>
> This is, of course, an unprecedented accusation leveled by the Vatican to
> Israel whose Politica1 significance prompts other western parties to
oppose
> Israeli policies.
>
> In its official Gazette, the Vatican stressed that the genocide against
the
> Palestinians has got nothing to do with allegations by Israel that its war
> is against terrorism.
>
> It added that this war aimed at preventing Palestinians from realizing
their
> dream of establishing their independent state. It stressed that the
current
> war against Palestinians lacked all forms of international legitimacy.
>
> Commenting on this war, the Vatican says that the current war, waged by
> Israel in collaboration with the Americans against Muslim Palestinian
> people, is not "religiously blessed".
>
> Rather it is condemned by all Catholic Church archbishops in the world.
The
> Vatican urged all Catholics in the world to unify ranks to condemn the
> religiously unlawful war against Palestinians.
>
> Getting out to the diplomatic chess board, the Vatican recalled the
American
> and Israeli ambassadors informing them that Pope John Paul II rejected
> calling the current war against Palestinians as anti-terrorism war.
>
> The Pope urged Israel to withdraw immediately from the occupied
territories
> and urged the Americans to stop their support to Israel, through public
> recall of the two ambassadors, the Vatican said that all Christians in the
> World particularly the Catholics support the Palestinian people.
>
> Thus, it expressed its readiness to establish an international alliance
with
> Islamic leadership to face up the Israeli-American alliance after the
> Europeans had rejected to join them in them aggression against the
> Palestinian people or Iraqi people in the future.