It had called on the international community to bring pressure to bear on Israel to protect all Muslim and Christian and holy sites and to put an end, once and for all, to attempts to desecrate such sites.

I was in Sri Lanka, for example, three days after the tsunami, and I was standing on the beaches and it was absolutely clear that, in a matter of five minutes, a 30 foot wave could rise up and desecrate a people, a population and lives.