Journalist Gideon Levy is the noblest Israeli

Two very admirable things Pope Francis did were to call for peace in Ukraine and Gaza.

Saying Russia was not entirely to blame for the Ukrainian war and calling the Israeli actions genocide were very unpopular in the Western media, unlike most things he said which non-Catholic journalists loved. 

He called up the people in a Catholic church in the Gaza strip each day. 

Thinking about his outspoken condemnation of Israel I feel like quoting Gideon Levy quoting Daniel Blatmann, in an article in the English edition of Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz three days ago.)

'How can one not think about the brave and shocking article by Orit Kamir (Haaretz Hebrew, April 22) about the Israelis standing on the sidelines of this war, which she believes negates their right to complain about the Germans who did so, and agree with every word? Or about the no less shocking article by Daniel Blatman about children of Gaza and children of the Holocaust (Haaretz Hebrew, April 23)? He writes that the day fighting resumed in Gaza will live in infamy in Jewish history. One can only hope that will be the case.

'"I've studied the Holocaust for 40 years," Blatman wrote. "I've read countless testimonies about the most horrific genocide of all, against the Jewish people and other victims. However, the reality in which I would read accounts about mass murder committed by the Jewish state that, in chilling resemblance, remind me of testimonies from the Yad Vashem archives – this I could not have foreseen even in my worst nightmares."

'This is not a comparison to the Holocaust but a terrible warning of where things are heading. Not thinking about it today is to betray the memory of the Holocaust and its victims. Not thinking about Gaza today is to forfeit one's humanity and desecrate the memory of the Holocaust. It is a warning sign against what is yet to come.'