He dad Francis believes it is necessary to investigate whether Israel is committing acts of genocide in Gaza, as he explains in “Hope Never Disappoints,” his new book, previewing some of the first passages of which was published this Sunday in the Italian newspaper ‘La Timbre’. “According to some experts, What is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of genocide. It should be studied carefully to determine whether it corresponds to the technical definition formulated by jurists and international organizations,” underlines Francisco in his work.
“I think above all of those who are leaving Gaza in the midst of the famine which is hitting their Palestinian brothers in the face of the difficulty of transporting food and aid to their territory,” adds the dad. From his point of view, in the Middle East there are “the open doors of nations like Jordan or Lebanon, which continue to be a salvation for millions of people fleeing conflicts in the region.” The book, “Hope never disappoints”, It was edited by journalist Hernán Reyes Alcaide and will be published next Tuesday in Italy, Spain and Latin America, and later in other countries.
The work is being published ahead of the Jubilee celebration which begins on December 24 this year and will last until 2025, when some 30 million Catholic faithful are expected to make a pilgrimage to Rome. In work, the dad reflects on geopolitics, family, climate, education, global social and economic reality or migration. For the pontiff, there is “a globalization of indifference” which must be responded to “through the globalization of charity and cooperation”, particularly in questions such as the current phenomenon of migration.
“Faced with this challenge, no country can stand alone and no one can consider tackling the problem in isolation through more restrictive and repressive laws, sometimes approved under the pressure of fear or in search of electoral advantages,” affirms the dadwhich urges that “the conditions of immigrants be humanized.”
According to him dad“the countries of origin of the largest migratory flows in a new virtuous circle of economic growth and peace that includes the entire planet”. “For migration to be a truly free decision, it is necessary to do everything possible to guarantee the equal participation of everyone in the common good, respect for fundamental rights and access to integral human development,” he believes. . In this sense, “only if this basic platform is guaranteed in all nations of the world can we say that those who migrate do so freely and can we think of a truly global solution to the problem.”
“To achieve this scenario, we must take a fundamental first step to put an end to unequal trade conditions between different countries in the world,” says Francisco. According to the complaint, there exists “a reality which consists solely of a transaction between subsidiaries which plunder the territories of poor countries and they send their products and their income” to developed countries. “We think, for example, of sectors linked to the exploitation of underground natural resources.
These are the open veins of these territories”, affirms the dadin reference to Eduardo Galeano, author of the work “The Open Veins of Latin America”. He dad He also reiterates his call to welcome migrants. “By asking that the doors be opened to them, I also urge to promote their integral development, to give them the opportunity to realize themselves as people in all the dimensions that make up the humanity planned by the Creator,” underlines Francisco.
