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...camps looks more remote than it has in eight years. Looking for a way into the problem, the U.S. and the international community are starting with delivering help to Gaza. On Monday, Clinton will attend an Arab-sponsored summit at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that aims to organize and fund the reconstruction of the devastated Palestinian enclave. The enormous suffering of civilians during the war makes the humanitarian mission a worthy end in itself. But as a diplomatic undertaking, it is fraught with contradictions. (See pictures of Gaza digging...
...Ignoring those contradictions might be acceptable in furtherance of the simple moral goal of helping thousands of people in need - or more cynically, in pursuit of the p.r. win that might come from being seen to do so. But much of the money pledged at Sharm el-Sheikh may never go to helping Palestinians in Gaza. At a conference in Paris in late 2007, the international community started a pledge drive that eventually totaled $7.7 billion in proposed aid to the Palestinians. By September 2008, only $1.4 billion had gone to the Palestinian Authority, according to French diplomat Pierre Duquesne...
...USAID says it committed $600 million after the Paris donors' conference, including $300 million in budget support to the Palestinian Authority and $184.7 million in refugee assistance. Other countries, especially the Arab donors, did not follow through on their pledges. With $6 billion in undelivered pledges, the Sharm el-Sheikh summit may simply repurpose the same money pledged a year ago in Paris. And it seems perfectly possible, barring dramatic changes in the Middle East political equation, that a year from now, another summit will propose more humanitarian goals, boldly repurposing unused Paris and Sharm el-Sheikh money...
...dead bodies that have been recovered, 33 cannot be identified. Together with arson and looting of officers' houses, there are also unconfirmed reports of rape and murder of officers' family members, with at least one wife, that of the BDR commanding officer, confirmed killed. While Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was widely hailed for her steady handling of the crisis, some critics are arguing that if she had sent in troops to storm the compound at once many of these killings and atrocities could have been averted. (See pictures of Bangladesh and Pakistan's forgotten...
...Hamas isn't invited to the Gaza aid conference set for the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday, but its control of the territory is an inescapable fact for those attending, including Secretary of State Clinton. Although the U.S. insists that reconstruction money for Gaza be directed through the Palestinian Authority in order to bypass Hamas, that distinction may soon become moot. Egypt, which has aided U.S. and Israeli attempts to isolate Hamas - a close ally of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood - is currently hosting reconciliations talks between Hamas and Fatah in Cairo. Egypt's hostility...