Posted on 01/14/2022 6:57:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If Willie Sutton, the bank robber, would instantly have known the answer if asked “Was Archibishop Desmond Tutu anti-Israel or an anti-Semite?” After all, when asked why he robbed banks, Sutton explained, “That’s where the money is.” The iron logic of this bold answer holds the clue to Desmond Tutu’s well-known antipathy to Israel. Why hate Israel rather than any other country? Willie Sutton would say because that’s where the Jews are.
If he’d heard that, Tutu’s beloved grin would melt into a grimace. Tugging at his crimson Episcopal cape, he would pontificate that, “The government of Israel is placed on a pedestal, and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic.” All of which leaves the real question gaping like an untreated wound: Can a person dislike Israel yet like Jews?
It took me a book to answer that, followed by 30 chapters of a manuscript at the publishers elaborating and illustrating an ultra-sensitivity to a nation that dares to exist. It’s not possible, we’ll find, to cut the personality down the middle, to experience a wild disorder when Israel is considered and a calm equanimity when Jews are. Tutu, the rabid anti-Zionist, was no exception.
What makes bureaucrats and moral arbiters, academics and rock idols, clerics and cause groups, heads of state and iconoclasts with pockets deeper than many banks love to grind Israel to bits, roast it over hot coals, drive it into the sea by drops, and go mad over it by default? Tutu, some say, had a ‘blind spot.’ The opposite was true. The cleric’s angry mind-eye fixated on Israel’s deeds.
Tutu’s gripe that Jews wouldn’t allow him to criticize Israel dates back to Wilhelm Marr, the creator of the term anti-Semitism.
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I wonder if the author of this piece has ever written more than a single sentence in the English language.
Commies gotta do what commies gotta do.
RE: I wonder if the author of this piece has ever written more than a single sentence in the English language.
I gather from this that you are an English writing teacher ....?
It’s all inclusive; this guy was a priest and yet despises Israel and Jews? Like I mean, Yeshua was a Jew.
Let’s put it this way. There is little doubt that both Mossad and Shin Beth each had an extensive file on Tutu. Doubt he was ever invited for tea by an Israeli Prime Minister.
Can you say that the greatest part in Israel remains in darkness for their rejection of Christ without being called an Anti-Semite? Can I say that until they convert to Christ, I’m not gonna pretend that Israel can do no wrong? I eagerly await for them to be grafted back in.
WHO?
Never heard of him.
Certain things are mathematically possible, and yet extremely unlikely in the real world.
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