Tutu is a campaigner against all forms of injustice and oppression in the
world. He is an inspiration to all peoples trying to break free from
sujugation.

BMK

>Tutu said Israeli checkpoints were humiliating Palestinians
>
>"Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all
>powerful, but in the end they bit the dust," he said.
>Speaking at a conference called Ending the Oppression in Boston, Archbishop
>Tutu told delegates Jewish people had been at the forefront of the struggle
>against apartheid in South Africa.
>He asked: "Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their
>humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home
>demolitions, in their own history so soon?
>"Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious
>traditions?"
>The archbishop said that while he condemned suicide bombings by Palestinian
>militants against Israel, Israeli military action would not bring security
>to the Jewish state.
>Israel must "strive for peace based on justice, based on withdrawal from
>all the occupied territories, and the establishment of a viable Palestinian
>state on those territories side by side with Israel, both with secure
>borders," he said.

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