quote:A United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip that was to be led by Desmond Tutu is in doubt because Israel has yet to give the Nobel laureate permission to enter the territory, officials said on Friday.
Tutu was to begin leading a six-member team this weekend in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun to investigate the killings of 19 civilians in an Israeli artillery barrage last month.
But Israel has yet to grant the South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town the necessary travel clearance, said three different officials close to the talks between the global body and the Jewish state. [...]
Now, what could Tutu possibly find in these territories that he might recognize!?!?
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B.L. Zeebub LLD
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posted 10 December 2006 08:45 PM
For a country so grandiose in their self-righteousness, the pangs of conscience do sneak through now and again. Unfortunately, they aren't prepared to confront them just yet.
The trouble with a guy like Tutu heading up the mission is that they can't throw the usual crap about the UN being "antisemitic" at him.
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posted 10 December 2006 06:32 PM
