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I dont know why this topic angers me,Im a catholic and have never stepped foot in Israel. That's exactly the point. Here in the West, where we base our lives on the Judeo-Christian morality, we take sides of issues and not people. We try to do what is right and stay away from what is wrong. You have no trouble at all disagreeing with a Christian, just like I, a Jew, would not hesitate a moment siding with a Christian if some other Jew committed a wrong against him. What is wrong is wrong regardless who does that, correct? So, thank you for being a good person, a good Christian, and for feeling strongly about what's right and what's wrong. We need more people like that in this country.

Im a catholic and have never stepped foot in Israel. I am asking myself the same thing regarding... the Gypsies. I have learned only recently, over the last few years, the full extent of the persecution, to which the world subjected these people. Just like Jews, they were expelled from Spain in 1492, just like Jews, they were literally exterminated by the Nazis. In Romania they were legally enslaved for centuries --- until about 1880. Unlike Jews, many of them are not educated and lack spokespeople, so we know little about the atrocities purpetrated against them. My heart literally aches when I read new, or recall previously read, specific accounts...

And sometimes I ask myself the same question: I am not a Gypsy; I never has a Roma (Gypsy) friend; the last time I came into contact with one --- in Seville, Spain --- she tried to make me part with my money. So why do I feel so deeply?

And the only answer that comes to mind, "because what was done to them for centuries was terribly wrong."

I am not trying to put words in your mouth, but this is how I undertand your posts, too: unlike many of our present-day fellow countrymen, you are bothered by evil. Thank you and G-d bless.

Have a wonderful and peaceful Easter Holiday.