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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDesmond Tutu, Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine
http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.610687My plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an exclusive article for Haaretz, calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.
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By Desmond Tutu
Published 21:56 14.08.14
The past weeks have witnessed unprecedented action by members of civil society across the world against the injustice of Israels disproportionately brutal response to the firing of missiles from Palestine.
If you add together all the people who gathered over the past weekend to demand justice in Israel and Palestine in Cape Town, Washington, D.C., New York, New Delhi, London, Dublin and Sydney, and all the other cities this was arguably the largest active outcry by citizens around a single cause ever in the history of the world.
A quarter of a century ago, I participated in some well-attended demonstrations against apartheid. I never imagined wed see demonstrations of that size again, but last Saturdays turnout in Cape Town was as big if not bigger. Participants included young and old, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, agnostics, atheists, blacks, whites, reds and greens ... as one would expect from a vibrant, tolerant, multicultural nation.
I asked the crowd to chant with me: We are opposed to the injustice of the illegal occupation of Palestine. We are opposed to the indiscriminate killing in Gaza. We are opposed to the indignity meted out to Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks. We are opposed to violence perpetrated by all parties. But we are not opposed to Jews.
Earlier in the week, I called for the suspension of Israel from the International Union of Architects, which was meeting in South Africa.
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Desmond Tutu, Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine (Original Post)
G_j
Aug 2014
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malaise
(269,157 posts)1. Great Op Ed but it won't change anything
They intend to steal all of Palestine
earthside
(6,960 posts)2. I stand with Tutu.
Indeed, however, the Netanyahu government and its ideological adherents want an Israel free of indigenous Palestinians.