Friday, November 5, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
An open letter to Desmond Tutu - '...SO WHY has there not been peace? The ANC taught us you can't make peace on your own. No matter how deeply the ANC was committed to a peaceful resolution of the South African conflict, until the National Party was prepared to accept that black South Africans had a place in their own country, there could be no peace. And so too, until the Arab/Muslim world accepts that Jews have a right to a state of their own on their ancestral land, there will be no peace...'
Im afraid that Desmond Tutu sees it this way. Until whitey (Jews) reliquishes power to the brown skinned majority, there will be no peace.
I have little more affection for Desmond Tutu than I do for his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter, which is to say next to zero. But I don't imagine it to be a skin color, or racial thing with him (whitey Jews versus brown skinned people), and I think it a serious mistake to thing it that rather than what it is, namely a "Progressive," "anti-colonialist" championing of those struggling for "freedom," that is the Palestinians. That "diagnosis" may not make it any better, and practically speaking may even make it worse, but seeing it as other than it is doesn't help.