5.23.2002

From today's OpinionJournal Best of the Web, a tale of two IQ challenged mentalities:

Red Cross attacks exile of Palestinians, by Robert Fisk

As twelve of the 13 Palestinian gunmen exiled by Israel left Cyprus for European Union countries yesterday, the International Committee of the Red Cross stated that their "transfer" outside the occupied Palestinian West Bank was illegal under humanitarian law.

Vincent Lusser, a spokes-man for the Middle East department of the ICRC in Geneva, cited Article 49 of Annexe 4 of the Geneva Conventions, telling The Independent: "Transfers outside occupied territory are illegal and that covers the 13 men."
Hey, stupids! Yeah, you, the writer and the foole being quoted: The 13 chose exile because they didn't want to be arrested. The Israelis wanted to -- still want to -- arrest them on a variety of terrorist-related charges. Duh, they chose to go rather than go to jail.

Argh, the minds of some people. And if this doesn't establish -- again -- the double-standard the Red Cross operates under in the Middle East....

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