I was delighted with yesterday's announcement that the "Quartet" group (The UN, USA, UK and Russia) had set up a trust fund into which money would be paid in order to support the Palestinian people. The international community has been arguing amongst itself about the merits or otherwise of funding the Palestinian Hamas-led government, given Hamas' hardline stance, but there is one general consensus: the rest of the world cannot punish the Palestinian people for their choice of leaders. It has seemed obvious to me for some time that a trust fund such as that now set up - which gives money direct to individual people or to public projects via NGOs - is the only sensible way to stop the Palestinian territories from going bankrupt.
If this move helps the Palestinians to understand that the world is not against them as a whole, just against their terrorist groups (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, et al) then it will do a world of good in the Middle East conflict as a whole.
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Sounds like a sensible idea. About time too really. Money into the right causes can do a great deal of good.
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