The crisis in the always delicate relations between the Holy See and Israel calms down again fast reverse of the ambassador to the Vatican, Raphael Schutz, which reduced it to a translation error the harsh response that Israel gave to a statement by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
Two days ago the Pope’s “prime minister” expressed his ““dismayed” (Spanish for “dismay”) “for the carnage” that Israeli repression in Gaza has caused more than 27 thousand Palestinian deaths.
The Israeli ambassador said that the right translation must be considered the phrase of the Pope’s “prime minister” is “unfortunate”.
No one can think that the phrase of Cardinal Parolin, master of diplomacy, was improvised or thrown away.by agreement with Pope Francis.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin Vatican Secretary of State. Photo: Victor Sokolowicz Ambassador Schutz may not have thought about it either, but the Israeli reaction (which emerged first) was to condemn him The intervention of the Vatican Secretary of State was “deplorable”.which was also poorly received in Israel.
A complex relationship
The Vatican and especially Pope Francis They maintain a complex relationship with Israel, with an intense personal exchange of the Argentine pontiff with the rabbis and the highest religious authorities of the country.
Just on Thursday the Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” published it on its front page a letter from a group of rabbis and scholars of Judeo-Christian dialogue in which they wrote to the Pope: «We are consoled by the fact that you it reached Jews all over the worldand in particular to those of Israel, in this moment of great suffering.”
The rabbis point out “also his efforts to actively oppose anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism, which in recent times have taken on dimensions unknown to most of us in the course of our lives.”
The letter is signed by very important rabbissuch as Jehoshua Ahren (Frankfurt/Bern), Yits Greenberg (Jerusalem/New York) and David Meyer (Paris/Rome), along with Karma Ben Johanan (Jerusalem) and Malka Zeigr Simkovich (Chicago).
Palestinian children wait for food in Gaza. Photo: APThe official website of Vatican News also published it Edith Bruck’s positionwho in 1944 was deported by the Nazi government to Auschwitz.
The famous writer and poet has directed harsh criticism against the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the “carnage” suffered by Gaza.
Bruk underlines that the Israeli prime minister’s action “has damaged the Jews of the diaspora because it has reinvigorated anti-Semitism, “which has never disappeared and has now increased”.
The writer adds the belief that “with this policy terrorists will never be eliminated”.
Source: Clarin
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