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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

When it suits them...and when "you know who" is involved. Adam Holland has the story: Oxfam won't condemn Darfur genocide or Mugabe's famine, but Israel is another story...

...This logic is also how Oxfam justifies their current refusal to criticize nations where their relief efforts might be threatened if they were to be honest about the crimes against humanity those nations commit. So Oxfam does business with the dictators of the Sudan and Zimbabwe, and says nothing of the causes of genocide and famine in those countries. That's just not their reason for being, they say, and to do so would endanger their mission.

But they make an exception of this rule for one nation. What nation could that be?...


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