The only possibly explanation for someone seeing a similarity between having to pass through a security checkpoint and being gassed and incinerated in an oven is that the person is suffering from dementia – or is a rabid Anglican leftist. Tutu is probably both.
From here:
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who is engaged in a controversial campaign urging divestment from Israel, in London on July 4 was honored for supporting travel to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, identified in the New Testament as the birthplace of Jesus.
Tutu, who is Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa and became known for his fight against his nation’s apartheid system of racial discrimination, at a London meeting was awarded an honorary “Bethlehem Passport” by the charity Open Bethlehem, of which he is a patron.
The London-based charity’s founder, Leila Sansour, commented that Tutu remains “an inspiration to millions in your dedication to the principles of peace, reconciliation and freedom. We remember your certainty that ‘we will all be free’ as we struggle for a Palestinian state, but we also remember that this state is only worth the struggle if it remains open, democratic and teaches respect for human rights.”
Tutu said that he was “very sorry you have had to endure all this suffering. It almost seems endless but it will end. At home for so many years it looked like the apartheid system would never end. But it did. The Jews thought the Holocaust would never end but it did. They did eventually come into their own land once again.”
He added, however, that Jews “are inflicting the same suffering they experienced on others” in terms of creating armed checkpoints through which Palestinians must pass and security operations against Palestinian areas.
…unless there has been a substitution or he’s been assimilated by the Borg.
Desmond Tutu used to be pretty reliable: unfortunately he seems to have gone off the rails since he retired.
Did the Jews in Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler have rocket launchers, AK47s and RPGs?
Nice of him though to admit the Jews came into their own land again. Too bad he doesn’t impress on the Palestinians that Israel has that right to exist.
Don’t forget,the progress to the holocaust started with ghettos, checkpoints and second class treatment. I’ve got little time for the people “running” Palestine, they have not yet missed the opportunity to miss an opportunity. The ordinary Abdul in the street, and his family, are the ones being given the bad time as a result.
The difference is that the Jews were never a threat to anyone, including the Nazis. Through propaganda the Jews were portrayed as the cause of all of Germany’s ills. After all, the Nazis needed to have someone to blame, and it most certainly could not be other “Germans”.
The ghettos and checkpoints, both in Nazi Germany and present day Israel, exist for a reason. Unfortunately people like Tutu don’t realize that the reasons are different. For the Nazis it was to facilitate the mass murder of a group of people. For Israel it is to protect the lives of innocent people. That is a really big difference!