Palestinians paying price for West's Holocaust guilt: Tutu
Palestinians are paying the price of the West's guilt over the Holocaust through its failure to pressure Israel to reach a just and lasting peace, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu said Thursday.
""I think the West, quite rightly, is feeling contrite, penitent for its awful connivance with the Holocaust,"" the massacre of Europe's Jews by German Nazis in World War II, Tutu told journalists.
""Now when you are contrite, when you are penitent, you are then ready to make amends, and we call that penance. The West is penitent, the penance is being paid by the Palestinians,"" said the South African archbishop who was famed for his anti-apartheid activism.
""I just hope that ordinary citizens in the West will wake up and say, 'we refuse to be part of this',"" Tutu added after presenting a report on the Israeli shelling of the Palestinian village of Beit Hanoun to the UN Human Rights Council.
Tutu had been mandated by the rights council to investigate the shelling in November 2006 which killed 19 civilians.
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""I think the West, quite rightly, is feeling contrite, penitent for its awful connivance with the Holocaust,"" the massacre of Europe's Jews by German Nazis in World War II, Tutu told journalists.
""Now when you are contrite, when you are penitent, you are then ready to make amends, and we call that penance. The West is penitent, the penance is being paid by the Palestinians,"" said the South African archbishop who was famed for his anti-apartheid activism.
""I just hope that ordinary citizens in the West will wake up and say, 'we refuse to be part of this',"" Tutu added after presenting a report on the Israeli shelling of the Palestinian village of Beit Hanoun to the UN Human Rights Council.
Tutu had been mandated by the rights council to investigate the shelling in November 2006 which killed 19 civilians.