Relax, Holy Father. Viva Palestina and George Galloway are doing the job for you
[Stuart Littlewood welcomes Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's belated decision to visit the Gaza Strip – more than what “that expensively frocked individual”, the Pope, is prepared to contemplate – but wonders what steps the archbishop will take when he returns to publicize the plight of the besieged Gazans.]
”When Archbishop Rowan gets home from his historic visit, what will he do? He and 25 of his colleagues sit in the British parliament's House of Lords. They have clout. But in a quick search through theyworkforyou.com I could find no recent record of these ‘super-clerics’ raising questions about Israel's murderous onslaught, the unending persecution of the Christian and Muslim communities and the unlawful restrictions imposed on the Holy Land generally. No criticism of the British government’s inaction either.”
Dignitaries, emissaries, human rights delegations, fact-finding trippers – they come and go, but Gaza's suffering continues and day by day gets worse, thanks to the corrupted leadership of the international community who are the scandal of our age.
But here's a spot of Christmas cheer for the starving, desolated Palestinians imprisoned in the tiny coastal enclave.