It's Very Simple, Tutu - - Updated

Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has been named to head a United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, where at least 18 civilians were killed earlier this month, UN officials said Wednesday.

The South African anti-Apartheid campaigner and former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town will travel to the Palestinian territory to "assess the situation of victims, address the needs of survivors and make recommendations on ways and means to protect Palestinian civilians against further Israeli assaults," according to the president of the UN Human Rights Council, Luis Alfonso De Alba.

There is a very simple 100% guaranteed way to protect Palestinian civilians against further Israeli "assaults."

Stop killing Israelis.

It takes neither a rocket scientist nor a Nobel laureate to figure it out.

UPDATE:

Yid With Lid has links to many bloggers who are discussing le Tutu and his new job as meddler in affairs that he has nothing to do with. Come to think of it, Nobel laureates are perfect for such tasks.  First, they visit and stick their noses here and there, then they make a speech or two.  Then, they preen and display their tail feathers.

The Nobel Laureate struts and spreads his feathers

Comments

[alan aka avrum ben avrum]

Dear Rubicon 3,

It never ceases to "amaze" me that the so-called "tzaddikim" of the gentile world haven't the "sechel" enough to understand how completely inverted their view of the world truly is! (I guess it does not matter much that many Jews actively supported the many varied efforts to bring the aparthied regime to its well-deserved downfall! The same goes for "ex-hero" nelson mandela! the day he shook hands with arafat, my heart sank!)

Though much of what I have to say in this comment is largely rhetorical, there remains a part of me that still cannot fathom how men like Tutu can so readily and eagerly participate in the on-going demonization of "artzeinu kadosha" and by extension the whole of the Jewish people. I wonder just how much money Tutu received from the rasha arafat?

It is both truly sickening and sad that in the post-Holocaust world how very much alive and well is Jew hatred, and that this imposter of a holy man is nothing more than a ridiculous and farcical lackey in the world wide effort to resustitate the final solution, God Forbid!

I am ...

Very Sincerely yours,

Alan D. Busch

[DRaftervoi]

Ah, you haven't figured it out yet, Al. Death is only a bad thing when it scores a certain kind of political point; last week French Mirage jets bombed rebel positions in C.A.R., providing air support for government troops who are burning rebel villages. The French support Bozize, who seized the government in the coup in 2003. Heard much about it, from either the right or the left? No? That's because bombs are not equal. American bombs aren't more explosive than French bombs, but they're more interesting. It's the same with conflict: Israeli reaction to nationalist rebels is far more interesting than, say, Sri Lankan reaction. Oh, you can argue that Yassir Arafat is easier to say than Velupillai Prabhakaran, but other than that, what explains the political fascination with one, and not the other?

[AndyJ]

We will always have personal interests; either in supoport of what we love-desire-aspire or in opposition to what we loathe-detest-fear.

There are no "better" people. Church leaders and Nobel winners are are politicians in side games. They are bit players in the fight for national power. Henry VIII demonstrated that they, too, can be sent packing. The UN can cease to exist. The league of nations frittered away its potential.

We fluff up the issues with words, paint pictures, argue into contortions that pass for wisdom and diplomacy. Ultimately, we wind up back at the choice of death and enslavement. Does this enslave or kill?

There are some for whom death is preferable to slavery. We have been told to "convert or die".

The UN has lost it's honor. It can no longer be considered an "honest" broker for peace, enforcer of rights or protector of the poor.

[Gail]

"There are no "better" people."

Some people control their selfish instincts better than others do.

My opinion: A person who chops off another person's head on camera and posts the video on the internet for the victim's loved ones to see is a lesser person than one who feels that such a premeditated and violent murder is evil and would never consider doing such a thing.

[DRaftervoi]

Oh, pshaw, AndyJ. While Henry8 certainly was no fan of works like De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, he never expelled any Nobel Prizewinners from JollyOlde - that should have been two sentences, not one. I DOCK YOU ONE POINT FOR STYLISTIC SLOPPINESS, and sentence you to listening to "Herman's Hermits Greatests Hits" as your penance.

But to the heart of the matter: the argument can cut both ways: secular leaders are but bit players in the grand religious struggles that play out over the centuries; the Ayatollah Khomenei demonstrated that they, too, can be sent packing, even in the late 20th Century.