ROME – Rome’s chief rabbi has said that while armed conflict is always “an offence against human dignity” at times it is necessary to defeat evil with force.
Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni (pictured) made his comments in response to Pope Francis’s repeated pleas for an end to the war in Gaza and his recent day of prayer for peace.
One can pray for peace, he said, “but we need to see what kind of peace it is - if it is a peace in which evil is defeated or a peace that satisfies the aggressors and the violent after they taken and left the defeated wounded and offended”.
