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...Israeli sides, the prospect of bridging the gap between the two 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...
...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...
...settlements be removed if there is a peace agreement that is acceptable to both sides? One can talk about removing settlements, but it becomes more difficult every day. Since the collapse of the Camp David summit in July 2000, some Palestinian and Israeli élites have begun to lose faith in the two-state solution. We see the rise of Hamas, which has a completely different agenda. If you don't have some kind of viable two-state solution, we have a problem on our hands...
...Indeed, the summit was hastily convened after Sarkozy made jingoistic noises last month about pulling French car-making operations out of eastern Europe. The beleaguered eastern members fear 'Old Europe' is on a wayward drift from the E.U.'s core principles of a single market, which could leave 'New Europe' abandoned in the economic vortex...
...international airport last year, the air terminal turned bright yellow. The demonstrators chose shirts of that color because they wanted to show their support for the King, whom they alleged was being disrespected by the then government. (Those PAD rallies forced ASEAN to delay the original date of its summit in December, and reschedule to this week...