Amid the plethora of public utterances on the wrongs and rights of Israel’s military action in Gaza, those of several key Vatican officials and spokesmen, including Pope Francis, along with the comments of their neighbour, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Riccardo di Segni, have featured prominently in the Catholic Herald. Finding myself invited to supplement this distinguished company and continue their dialogue is a sobering privilege.
My first instinct is not to rush to present judgement, but to seek some kind of foundation grounded both in personal memories of wartime and in wider historical awareness.
