There is a better way forward in creating peace, rather than pondering the morality of violence.
Many Christians believe Israel's war against Hamas is a 'just war' and that the state of Israel must exercise a right to self-defense in response to the atrocious attacks of October 7. Leaders encourage this thinking and support a binary choice of us-or-them, good-versus-evil, barbarians and monsters against the civilized and free. But such exercises in justifying violence entertain the wrong questions at the wrong time.
The Holy See has repeatedly questioned the merits of the war in Gaza. In a statement released on June 30, the Justice and Peace Commission of the Holy Land strongly condemned attempts to excuse the conflict in the name of just war theory, saying 'our theological tradition must not be used in order to justify this violence.
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