The Roman Catholic Bishops participating in this are, I am presuming, NOT naive, and therefor I find a grave moral relativism and moral hypocrisy in the particular position noted above. It is morally relativistic and hypocritical because it pretends that there are are not life threatening causes, as opposed to mere “political” intransigence, which justify the security measures that the Israelis MUST make, in their own defense.
If Israel's neighbors were merely a political opposition that was using peaceful political means, in their differences with the Israelis, the conditions the Bishops are complaining about would not be erected by the Israelis. The Bishops are not stupid. They know that to be the case. They know the foundation of the conditions they are complaining about are caused by the violence that Israel MUST protect its citizens against. Knowing that that violence is not going to disappear just because the Israelis drop their guard, while complaining about the conditions that having that guard imposes, makes the Bishops sound NOT like counselors of morals and faith but political counselors on a political agenda.
Why does the Roman Catholic Church keep allowing a voice, and sometimes a megaphone, for European antisemitism from within the ranks of its own leaders?
They think that if Israel would go away that the Muslims would treat them more gently. This is foolish give the plain facts of history than whenever Muslim power revives, the lot of Christians gets worse, and the growth of the Church is suppressed.