The shots of the Israeli tank damaged the only Catholic Church of Gaza, also impacting Italy and Argentina. From the Vatican the voice so far of Pope Leo XIV was heard, demanding Israel explanations and the immediate end of this “barbarism.” And as the priest of the attacked temple is Argentine, the government of Javier Milei, who has always expressed acritical support to the murky Israeli prime minister and his war of land razed in Gaza, had to issue a statement that, although notably soft, shows the severity involved in the three deaths and the dozen injured that includes the priest Gabriel Romanelli. Therefore, in the Foreign Ministry statement, the last paragraph claims “the shelter of civilians and religious and humanitarian facilities”, pointing out that “it constitutes an essential principle of international humanitarian law that must be fully observed.”
Netanyahu does not like to be told about the “civilians’ shelter” and humanitarian organizations, even if they tell them as softly as the Argentine statement. The other Israeli attack impacted politically on the Syrian president. The explosions in the main military buildings located in Damascus, widely exceeded the challenging challenges involved in the previous attacks of Israel to the new Syrian regime. But Ahmed al Sharaa preferred not to collect the glove and appease the situation.
Nobody would have thought that Al Qaeda’s jihadist who fought in Iraq against the Americans and then commanded the Nusra in front of the Syrian civil war, using as a name of Mohamad’s war to the Golani, referring to his goal of throwing Israel from the stages of the goal, would wrinkle before the neighbor’s attacks. But Sharaa does not feel that her army is in a position to face Israeli military power in a war. That is why he eludes the challenges of an increasingly thirsty Netayahu, which are the energizer that keeps a government that only knows how to navigate rivers of blood.
As well as the bloodstream that Hamas perpetrated in agricultural villages in southern Israel gave him an argument to launch a war of extermination in Gaza, the indifference of the Sunni regime that leads the Sharaa before the pogroms of Beduine militias against the Drusos, gave him the argument to attack key points of the Syrian military power in the same day. But former Al Qaeda jihadist again raised white flag.
It is true that the Drusa community asked the Israel government to intervene to defend Syria Drusos, who were being massacred in Sweida by Bedouins with permission from the Sunni regime. Druss communities distributed in Israel, Lebanon and Syria defend each other. But it is possible that Netanyahu is seeing an opportunity for the province of the South Sirius, which beautifully with Jordan and is close to the Golán, becomes an independent state with capital in Sweida and Druso government. Or at least achieve a level of autonomy that allows you to maintain your armed militias and weakens the unity of Syria.
Strengthened by the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime and its military successes against Hezbola and against Iran, Netanyahu shows symptoms of Napoleonic delusions. That is why Sharaa must control violent Sunni extremism that led him to power, not to give more pretexts to the Guerrero Government of Israel and his expansionist thirst.
Two minorities have occupied the center of the conflictive stage of the Middle East, the Christian Arabs of the Gaza Strip, attacked by the Israeli army, and the Druss of Syria, defended by Israel.
Although in the Palestinian diaspora it exceeds fifty percent, Christianity is about eight percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank. The majority are Catholic and the following churches, in the number of members, are the Orthodox Church of the Greek rite and that of the Assyrian rite.
In Palestine, Christianity grew under the British protectorate, but then it was decreasing for having a birth rate less than that of Muslims. The fact is that in the Gaza Strip all Christian churches have a strong link between them and a good relationship with mosques that are not directed by radical magnets.
Father Gabriel Romanelli spoke every night with Pope Francis describing the criminal unprotection of Hamas to civilians, sacrificed under Israeli bombs to stain the image of the Jewish state in blood. He also described the indiscriminate brutality of the attacks of the Israeli army. Without equating them, the descriptions of the Christians of Gaza show the crime of Hamas and Netanyahu.
Much more energetic than the Argentine government, Pope Leo XIV described the war that is devastating Gaza as “barbarism”, claiming “the prohibition of collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of force and the forced displacements of the population.” Messages clearly addressed to Netanyahu.
Those who are grateful to the Israeli premier are the Druzos, that ethnicity whose religious and cultural syncretism endowed it with a diversity as rich as complex. The preaching of a sage Persian, Hamza Bin Alí Bin Hamad, and the myths about Hakim, the sixth Fatimí Caliph, merging with elements of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Zoroastrism, in addition to Platonic, Aristotelian and Pythagorean concepts in the pages of the Sacred Book Epistles of Wisdom, made that community to that community. arising in the eleventh century in the fascination of mystics and scholars, as well as Freemasons, Rosicruces and Templars.
The Druss were well assimilated in Israel. In Syria they were at the time of the Alauita regime, supportive with all the minorities against the majority Sunism, while in Lebanon they had leaders such as Kemal Jumblait, whose son Walid continued with the leadership of the progressive socialist party and the militia that fought against the phalanges maronite in the long and bloody civil war.
Now, the druse militias that attract the attention of the world are the ones that resist the pogroms of Sunni Bedouins for converting Suwayda in what was the Bekaa Valley for the Lebanese Drusos: an impregnable bastion.
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