WWF, Oxfam punished for anti-Saudi act at UN talks
2nd August 2010
The U.N. sanctioned two activist groups Monday after a Saudi Arabian nameplate was vandalized at a recent climate change conference.
Three members of the World Wildlife Fund and Oxfam International were barred from future meetings for taking the Saudi plate at a June meeting, breaking it into pieces and distributing photographs of it in a toilet bowl.
One wonders what the reaction would have been had it been the nameplate of the U.S. or any European country that had been so treated. My suspicion is that the Arabs (with behind the hand participation by the Saudis) would have been the first to nod, wink, and applaud.