TP O’Mahony: Pope Leo's words on Gaza have gone unheeded in the Knesset and the White House

In 2024 there were 61 'state-based conflicts' in the world, the most since 1946, according to the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. And that was before the Israel-Iran conflict. We may well ask: why are there so many wars?

Fri, 25 Jul, 2025 - 00:48

TP O’Mahony

With Gaza haunted by the spectre of mass starvation, Pope Leo XIV’s call for respect for humanitarian law has gone unheeded in the two places on Earth where it requires compliance if peace in the Middle East is ever to be achieved - the White House in Washington DC and the Knesset in Jerusalem.

The phrase “the globalisation of indifference” has for too long accurately described the inaction of the international community to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, and its collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

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