Looks like Desmond Tutu won't be making a visit to Israel after all. Upset that Israel refused to roll out the red carpet for the Archbishop, Tutu packed off in a huff, taking his six-person band of merry UN pranksters with him. Too bad for the people who think the peace effort could use another biased report on Israel from the UN Human Rights Council, a body so blatantly anti-Israel that it makes one long for the old, discredited UN Commission on Human Rights. In only six months of existence, the UNHRC has managed to condemn Israel eight times, compared to none for any other state in the world.
It was clearly going for number nine when it picked outspoken Israel critic Tutu to head its mission to Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip where, after days of heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinians attempting to fire Kassam rockets at Israeli civilians, an Israeli shell flew off course and killed 19 innocent Palestinians.