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Tutu blasts Israel, parallels actions with apartheid
By SHELIA M. POOLE
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer
W.A. Bridges Jr. / AJC
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with his wife, Leah, and daughter, Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe (right), spoke at an Atlanta luncheon Friday for Africa's Children Fund Inc.
South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu lashed out at the Israeli government Friday, comparing the lives of Palestinians in the occupied territories to those of blacks under apartheid.
"It is so clear when you see the roadblocks where young Israeli soldiers and police act with the same kind of arrogance that we used to experience as blacks when we were stopped by white South African police officers," Tutu said in an interview.
"You were really at their mercy. Would you be allowed to go forward or would you be turned back?"
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was in Atlanta to attend a luncheon for Africa's Children Fund Inc., which his daughter, Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe, chairs.
Tutu, 70, one of apartheid's most vocal and well-known opponents, has returned to South Africa after several years in the United States, including a stint as a visiting professor at Emory University.
He said Israeli Jews "seem to have forgotten their horrible experience in Nazi Germany, where their property was confiscated, they were stripped of their possessions and many forced into concentration camps, where 6 million Jews were killed.
"They were treated as less than citizens in their own country," said Tutu, who was accompanied by his wife, Leah. Like Palestinians today, blacks in South Africa and Jews in Nazi Germany, there was "constant humiliation," he said.
Peace is negotiable
Tutu said he condemned the use of suicide bombers and found it "reprehensible" that young Palestinians were being recruited for these acts and taught to hate Jews.
But at the same time, "I condemn equally and vehemently the terrorism of an army that can go into Arab settlements and behave in the fashion that they do -- when they can stop ambulances and when they can stop medical personnel. I don't think it speaks well for the Israeli government."
Still, he thinks peace is possible between Israelis and Palestinians, if both sides resume negotiations.
"You don't negotiate with your friends," he said. "You negotiate with your enemies."
He said Israel has a right to guaranteed boundaries and Palestinians should have their own state.
Tutu blasts Israel, parallels actions with apartheid
By SHELIA M. POOLE
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer
W.A. Bridges Jr. / AJC
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with his wife, Leah, and daughter, Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe (right), spoke at an Atlanta luncheon Friday for Africa's Children Fund Inc.
South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu lashed out at the Israeli government Friday, comparing the lives of Palestinians in the occupied territories to those of blacks under apartheid.
"It is so clear when you see the roadblocks where young Israeli soldiers and police act with the same kind of arrogance that we used to experience as blacks when we were stopped by white South African police officers," Tutu said in an interview.
"You were really at their mercy. Would you be allowed to go forward or would you be turned back?"
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was in Atlanta to attend a luncheon for Africa's Children Fund Inc., which his daughter, Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe, chairs.
Tutu, 70, one of apartheid's most vocal and well-known opponents, has returned to South Africa after several years in the United States, including a stint as a visiting professor at Emory University.
He said Israeli Jews "seem to have forgotten their horrible experience in Nazi Germany, where their property was confiscated, they were stripped of their possessions and many forced into concentration camps, where 6 million Jews were killed.
"They were treated as less than citizens in their own country," said Tutu, who was accompanied by his wife, Leah. Like Palestinians today, blacks in South Africa and Jews in Nazi Germany, there was "constant humiliation," he said.
Peace is negotiable
Tutu said he condemned the use of suicide bombers and found it "reprehensible" that young Palestinians were being recruited for these acts and taught to hate Jews.
But at the same time, "I condemn equally and vehemently the terrorism of an army that can go into Arab settlements and behave in the fashion that they do -- when they can stop ambulances and when they can stop medical personnel. I don't think it speaks well for the Israeli government."
Still, he thinks peace is possible between Israelis and Palestinians, if both sides resume negotiations.
"You don't negotiate with your friends," he said. "You negotiate with your enemies."
He said Israel has a right to guaranteed boundaries and Palestinians should have their own state.
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