Di (amina046) said:

In writings and media appearances, he took a universalist view of religion in a multicultural world - a stance that could get him in hot water with conservatives.

How water with conservatives?

When Israel was destroying Lebanon in 2006, their Ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, declared:

"To those countries who claim that we are using disproportionate force, I have only this to say: You're damn right we are. Because if your cities were shelled the way ours were, if your citizens were terrorized the way ours are, you would use much more force than we are using." https://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=18897

So Israel announced officially that it was either engaged in genocide or, at any rate, was hitting civilians well beyond the level of "necessity".

The specific word he used was "disproportionate" - which is the very definition of war-crimes.

What did the illustrious Jonathan Sacks say about the same policy of carrying out war-crimes?

23 July 2006, Solidarity rally for Israel, Jewish Free School in Kenton, HA3 9TE Speech at Solidarity Rally for Israel, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, London

"We have come together today to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Israel and to say a simple prayer... Israel, you make us proud ... Israel: you are our people and our pride and we stand with you today."

http://www.lsjs.ac.uk/siteimgs/Audio/ChiefRabbiSirJonathanSacks-RallyforIsrael23.doc (London School of Jewish Studies) was at http://www.chiefrabbi.org/sp-index.html - DEAD LINK but now at http://jiw.blogspot.co.uk/2006_07_23_archive.html

Look carefully - he's not defending the actual destruction so much as defending the policy of carrying out war-crimes.

Another prominent Jew described the same events and actions like this:

"Israel has embarked, in its own words, on a war of annihilation against the Lebanese people. Not a day passes when the language they use doesn't escalate.

One day they say for each Hezbollah rocket we will destroy 10 Lebanese homes.

The next day they say we will flatten southern Lebanon.

The next day they say we will cleanse southern Lebanon.

The next day they say we will obliterate and pulverize southern Lebanon. We have to be honest about what they are saying.

This is pure and simple Nazi language. They're talking about - and we shouldn't be afraid to use that analogy. They are waging a war of annihilation against the Lebanese people." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFmxnwQ9Bw (video) - July 29th 2006

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Is there something in particular that you'd like me to add to the article?

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It means the first deaths directly contributed to humans destroying the planet have arrived.

a GIRL with Asthma - what happened to the people who died in the 40's and 50's and 60's with SMOG created by coal usage etc ?

BM

It wasn't legally attributed to the smog.

That's the landmark moment.

smog WAS man made and killed thousands , the sad death of this Young girl is very bad but so were the deaths of thousands during the years that SMOG was on going 

BM

Yes, but it was never the "official" cause of death.

"Respiratory failure" was probably written on the death certificate.

That's the point.

According to Wilki Great Smog of London  1952 in 5 days it killed 4000 people according to Govt estimates according to Modern Estimates it was somewhere between 10 to 12,000 

What they put on the Death Certificate would be irrelevant SMOG was a man made phenomenon and it killed people stone bleeding dead 

BM