Judaism and the Jewish people have no better friend in the Christian world than the Catholic Church. As His Eminence, the late Cardinal Francis George said, for the Catholic Church, friendship with the Jewish people is doctrinal. The Jewish people pay close attention to what the church writes and says about Judaism, the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
It is equally important to note what is not said about us in a variety of Christian writings and statements. Much has been written about Israel's war with Hamas. Much has not.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragic, this-worldly conflict. It is a clash of two just goods, two peoples establishing a home in the same land, at the same time. Its resolution will come, someday, through painful compromise, with both sides accepting fairly equal amounts of injustice.
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