Friday, October 23, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
NGO Idiocy Watch: Amnesty International: The Palestinian Leadership is equivalent to infants, the insane, or drunkards - '...In other words, Amnesty is saying, that when they entered into Oslo (1993-95), Yassir Arafat and the PLO were incapable of taking their own interests into account and lacked the ability to negotiate and enter into a deal to their own benefit (whether they actually stuck to the deal once entered into is another question). Under contract law, an agreement can be invalidated for a lack of capacity on the basis of infancy, mental illness, or drunkenness. Amnesty must think that the Palestinians involved in negotiating and agreeing to Oslo were children, insane, or wasted if it is advancing such an illogical and silly argument. If I was a Palestinian, I am not sure I would want this paternalistic organization advocating on my behalf.' [Amnesty International is at it again. Water, water, everywhere, but not a brain cell in sight.]
