'Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has called Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip an "abomination".
He strongly condemned what he called international "silence and complicity" on the blockade, which he compared to the actions of Burma's leaders.
Speaking at the end of a two day mission to the area, the former archbishop said the humanitarian situation there could not be justified.'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7425082.stm
Apart from being in the news cycle at the moment, please name one way in which the situation in Gaza is like the situation in Burma?
Lets see... nope, can't think of one, except that Bishop Tutu seems to know as little about the situation in Burma as he does the Gaza one.
In Burma, a cabal of military leaders rule a homogenous nation by fiat, using the military to ensure their continued dominance. They are assisted in this by most of their neighbors governments, especially the Indians who want the natural gas off Burmas shores. The UN has done absolutely nothing of consequence to bring the ruling Generals to book, and most of the big nations just ignore what goes on in Burma.
In EVERY SINGLE RESPECT, Gaza is different. Gaza is ruled by a terrorist group whose first actions as a government was to declare war on Fatah, the only other significant political grouping. Once they had killed enough Fatah operatives most of the others ran away to the West Bank. No country in the world condemned these murderous actions. Hamas are assisted in their murderous ways by Syria and Iran. Gaza is independent from Israel, and runs its own affairs using EU and American taxpayers money to do so. It has kept up low-level warfare with Israel through its whole independent existence. The UN constantly intervenes on the Palestinians behalf- in fact they even have their very own UN department. All the surrounding Arab nations keep up a barrage of hate-propaganda directed towards Israel, the country which gave Gaza its independence.
So how good is that parallel holding up Desmond? Stick to what you know (whatever that is).
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