The name of the crime

Pope Leo XIV's inaugural address was for "unarmed peace." This expression received little media attention, almost imperceptible. The news focus shifted to the ascension of a Chilean American to the papal throne. 

The recurring theme in the world today is Gaza. The arguments that Israel is defending itself, that it would be annihilated, or even that it is the only democracy among dictatorships in the Middle East, are not justified. 

Minister Gila Gamliel presents in a video the region rebuilt by artificial intelligence under the Zionist banner. An auspicious place for magnates and with no space whatsoever for Palestinians. The city would be a cluster of skyscrapers by the sea and a building bearing the Trump logo. Would it be the Riviera of the East? The stark reality is that the place is a haceldama (Acts 1:19), a cemetery, a field of blood bought with the money of a suicidal Judas.

Israel attacked the only Catholic church, killing three worshippers and injuring others. One of the victims was Father Gabriel Romanelli, whom the elderly Francis called every evening. In the Palestinian enclave, the parish housed Christians, Muslims, and children with disabilities, noted director Fadel Naem of the Al-Ahli Arab hospital. 

Not only Catholic representation, but other institutions such as mosques, hospitals, and universities are left in ruins to sweep these people from their properties and existences. The media shows children shot in the head, young men in the testicles, pregnant women in the womb, and elderly people bending down with their staffs to pick up some bread. Ualid Rabah, president of FEPAL (Arab Palestinian Federation of Brazil), explains that the intermittent bombing, destruction of churches, mosques, schools, ambulances, and civil infrastructure and registration sites, is so that the invaders can evade any responsibility or condemnation for war crimes and demonstrate their intention to "reach a Palestine without Palestinians." The president of FEPAL declares that "We are living through the first televised Holocaust, the first televised final solution." Columnist Leonardo Sakamoto of UOL, a critical journalist, says that "Israel is starving children to death in Gaza while the world debates the name of the crime."

Brazil has formally joined the ongoing proceedings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the United Nations, initiated by South Africa against the genocide in Palestine, and declares that "...there is no longer room for moral ambiguity or political omission." Israel reacts by saying that Brazil's act of joining the proceedings is a "profound moral failing." Clearly, if there is no specific genocide, the action will not succeed. However, what we see in the media and social networks affronts our sense of humanity. Against any criticism of its lethal actions, Israel repeatedly and always alleges antisemitism, self-defense, and, recently, the moral failing of others, but what is the name of the crime? There is no shortage of evidence!