Cairo — Feeling the guilt over the Holocaust during World War II, the West is turning a blind eye to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians and Arabs, leaving them to pay the price of the Holocaust, Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu said.
"Who pays the penance?” Tutu, a South African Archbishop, told Haaretz on Friday, August 28.
“The penance is being paid by the Arabs, by the Palestinians."
The Holocaust refers to "systematic state-sponsored killing of Jewish men, women, and children and others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II."
The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million.
But the figure has been questioned by many European historians and intellectuals, chiefly French author Roger Garaudy.
"I once met a German ambassador who said Germany is guilty of two wrongs. One was what they did to the Jews. And now the suffering of the Palestinians," Tutu said.
Israeli troops killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and wounded thousands in 22 days of deadly attacks in Gaza in January.
Israel also tightened a crippling siege on the strip, home to 1.6 million Palestinians, since Hamas was voted to power in 2006, badly affecting the livelihood in the enclave.
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