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Icons of Propaganda - Sabeel and Desmond Tutu
by Christine Williams
• March 29, 2015 at 5:00 am
The
troublesome truth is that there is no apartheid in Israel. Israel allows
Arabs and Muslims full human and civil rights in all areas of life, including
as full members of Israel's Parliament, the Knesset.
To brand
Israel as an apartheid state when none of these restrictions exist is not
only defamatory propaganda but, according to the black South African Reverend
Kenneth Meshoe, trivializes the real suffering of blacks under apartheid.
While
Tutu et al discuss Israel the "oppressor," Israel's surrounding
enemies seek to obliterate it in accordance with their genocidal charter.
Given the silence of Tutu et al on that subject, apparently an agenda of
genocide is not seen by them as an injustice.
Tutu also
disregards the countless Christians being slaughtered in Muslim states; that
black slaves are still being held in Muslim states such as Mauritania; the
forcible taking of "infidel" slaves by Boko Haram and ISIS; the
racist genocide in Darfur and the 10 million Muslims slaughtered by other
Muslims since 1948.
Critics
of Sabeel suggest that it actually seems to be a political organization
promoting anti-Israel propaganda while driving Church policy toward
destroying Israel through BDS.
Why are
Desmond Tutu, Sabeel and the anti-Semitic Churches that support BDS so
tolerant of the persecution of Christians, global Islamist terrorism, the
perpetual threat of Israel's obliteration and the fact that Muslims have
driven Christians out of Bethlehem, the very place of Jesus's birth?
These
calumnies and misrepresentations have nothing to do with peace and even less
to do with justice. They are even more unacceptable coming from church groups
or a man of the cloth.
A virulent global campaign by a powerful Christian lobby is trying to
influence the Church and use it to delegitimize Israel. The lobbying group is
the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, with Nobel Prize Laureate
and retired Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu as its patron.
Tutu not only agreed to serve as Sabeel's patron but also to
"assist the Palestinian Christian organization in its outreach and
development work with Christian Churches around the world."
On its website, Sabeel refers to Israel in terms such as
"oppressor," "occupier," "immoral", a violator
of Palestinian human rights and its founder, Naim Ateek, refers to Israel's
"crucifixion" of Palestinians:
"It only takes people of insight to see the hundreds of thousands
of crosses throughout the land, Palestinian men, women, and children being
crucified.... The Israeli government crucifixion system is operating
daily."
Turkey: Is the
AKP's "Spell" Reversing?
by Burak Bekdil
• March 29, 2015 at 3:00 am
It looks
as if the AKP's biggest enemy is the AKP.
When Turkey's Islamists came together under the roof of the Justice and
Development Party (AKP) in 2001 and reflagged themselves as conservative
democrats, they did not know they would have to get quickly organized for
early parliamentary elections in slightly over a year.
They did so, and successfully. But they probably could not imagine that
in 14 years time they would have won seven elections -- three parliamentary,
three local and one presidential -- in addition to two referendum victories,
and are heading for a 10th win on June 7, in less than three months' time.
At the moment, the AKP remains challenged only by a relatively weak
opposition, made up from social democrats, nationalists and Kurds. A recent
opinion poll, released in March by Gezici Research Company, put AKP's
popularity at (a lowest among all polls so far) 39.3%, with the social
democrats at 29.6%, nationalists at 17.7% and Kurds at 11%.
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