A quote from the editorial of La Civiltà Cattolica, October 2006

[...] [T]o combat terrorism effectively [we must] avoid political and military gestures that could appear as actions meant to combat, humiliate, and deride the Islamic peoples. In particular, a fair solution must be sought for the volatile Israeli-Palestinian question, which, according to the viewpoint shared by the entire Islamic world, is a serious wound, because the West has appropriated and given to the Jews an Islamic territory that is ‘sacred’ to Allah and belongs to Muslims ‘by divine law’ until the end of time. It is true that some of the Palestinian authorities and people are willing to accept the existence of the state of Israel, but it can also be recalled that the statute of Hamas, from August 18, 1988, says in article 15: ‘[...] In the face of the usurpation of Palestine on the part of the Jews, we must raise the banner of jihad’.