Friday, February 7, 2025

Trump’s Gaza proposal is gravely immoral

Today my critique of Trump’s Gaza proposal appears at the National Catholic Register.  Friends, whether you agree or disagree, I urge you to allow your opinions on this grave matter to be molded only by dispassionate reason and moral principle rather than anger and partisanship.

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM

    Is it possible to work with Arab nations to get people in Gaza to willingly move?

    The what do you do about the small minority who refuse to leave? Can you force them out? Rights to land are not absolute. If the majority were able to be moved willingly, and only a few radicals were preventing the land from being rebuilt, it would seem possible to force them out morally as long as there is appropriate compensation.

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  2. Miguel CervantesFebruary 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM

    Great article. It seems that the most extreme narratives on the Palestine question (now espoused by Trump and endorsed by many of the most important figures in the U.S.) assume that Palestinians are just "Arabs" who can very well go off and integrate into any other Arab-speaking nation. This is rubbish. The Palestinians are descended from the original inhabitants of Palestine (always very mixed ethnically - during the O.T. too), just like the modern Egyptians, Moroccans, Algerians, Sudanese, Omanis and Iraqis. Their racial, cultural and linguistic differences dwarf those between Italians, Spanish and French (let alone the much lesser differences between Canadians, Irish and Australians). Could one suggest that Italy cease to exist and the population march off to France forever because they share a Latin linguistic origin and Catholic culture? What a joke. It's willful ignorance to insist otherwise.

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  3. CosmicCatFebruary 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM

    It's worth pointing out that not all Palestinians are charismatic men who lead the charge. In fact, many Palestinians are Christian.

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