{"id":16825,"date":"2012-07-05T18:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T22:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16825"},"modified":"2012-07-05T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T22:42:37","slug":"desmond-tutu-likens-israels-treatment-of-palestinians-to-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/desmond-tutu-likens-israels-treatment-of-palestinians-to-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Tutu likens Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians to the holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 or is a rabid Anglican leftist. Tutu is probably both.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/other\/news-items\/article\/in-london-tutu-honored-for-support-of-palestinians-10942.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who is engaged in a controversial campaign urging divestment from Israel, in London on\u00a0July 4\u00a0 was honored for supporting travel to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, identified in the New Testament as the birthplace of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Tutu, who is Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa and became known for his fight against his nation&#8217;s apartheid system of racial discrimination, at a London meeting was awarded an honorary &#8220;Bethlehem Passport&#8221; by the charity Open Bethlehem, of which he is a patron.<\/p>\n<p>The London-based charity&#8217;s founder, Leila Sansour, commented that Tutu remains &#8220;an inspiration to millions in your dedication to the principles of peace, reconciliation and freedom. We remember your certainty that &#8216;we will all be free&#8217; 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tutu said that he was &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, however, that Jews &#8220;are inflicting the same suffering they experienced on others&#8221; in terms of creating armed checkpoints through which Palestinians must pass and security operations against Palestinian areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 or is a rabid Anglican leftist. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/desmond-tutu-likens-israels-treatment-of-palestinians-to-the-holocaust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2101],"class_list":["post-16825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-anglican-priests","tag-desmond-tutu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}