The popular Catholic and political commentator, Michael Knowles, said the Israeli attack on the only Catholic church in Gaza was just too much.
“Israel is losing me”. That’s what the popular political podcaster for the Daily Wire, Michael Knowles said Monday in a post Catholics for Catholics posted on X, the social media platform.
Knowles, who is also a committed Catholic, said he was bothered by the attack Israeli forces did on a Catholic church in Gaza. Pope Leo XIV called for an end to the war between Israel and Gaza, speaking of his profound pain about the strike on the sole Catholic Church in that country.
On Thursday, three people died and others were injured when the church of the Holy Family was attacked by a blast that killed three people, including the church’s janitor. The parish pastor, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, was also wounded during the attack, drawing condemnation by the international community, including President Trump, according to the White House Press Secretary.
Israel called the blast an “accident,” but Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, said he did not believe that Israeli attack was not intentional.
“Was it an accident? I don’t see any evidence that it was an accident. Can you provide me some proof that it was an accident?” Knowles said during his live podcast at Daily Wire on Friday July 18th. “You struck the church. Churches are pretty obvious targets. They are pretty obvious sites. The cross. Can you explain to me how this was an accident?” he added.
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The popular opinion against the government of the modern State of Israel has been increasing, Knowles said. Even big-time supporters like Mike Huckabee, the current U.S. Ambassador to that country has been publicly denouncing that all is not well between Christians and the government of Israel.
“I’ve been broadly supportive of the state of Israel not as an ideological matter but as a matter of prudence. And you are losing me. You are losing me.” Knowles said. “When you strike churches, the only church in Gaza, even if accidentally, but its fishy if not accidentally, you are losing me. If you are losing Mike Huckabee, the Israeli government is really screwing up, it’s really not playing its cards right.”
Knowles said he agrees with Pope Leo in that the war between Israel and Gaza has to come to an end. He implied that the war seems to have no end in sight.
Pope Leo calls for an end to ‘barbarity’ in Gaza: “I call once again for an immediate end to the barbarity of war”
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“The war needs to come to an end. There needs to be political consequences for this action. And the war needs to come to an end. How long is the war going to go on?” Knowles asked. “I know what the answer is. The answer is until the hostages come home. Ok. How about if we redouble our efforts to get the hostages if that’s the impediment to peace?”
Be it the destruction of Hamas, Syria under a democratic government or the release of the Israeli and American hostages, the excuses for not ending the war have got to stop, Knowles said.
“Because the war cannot just go on indefinitely. A just war cannot go on indefinitely. When you start striking churches, accidently or otherwise, when you start interfering with American interests, not allowing the reporting of Ambassador Huckabee, when you start interfering with American groups going to the state of Israel, now we got a problem,” Knowles said. “America is the only friend Israel has on planet earth. I do not get what the Israeli government is doing here but I suspect there will be political consequences for it. As there should be.”
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