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Don't be so ungrateful! We must be thankful if they allow us - so we all hope - eventually to mend what they have so viciously destroyed. Pity we can't bring all those children back to life, even with their permission!Originally Posted by proudArab
International donors meeting in Egypt are expected to pledge billions of dollars to rebuild the Gaza Strip
Opening the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, urged donors to give generously, but said aid would not compensate for the 1,300 Palestinian lives lost during the war.
"I reach to you with an appeal from the heart to declare tangible pledges," he said.
Up to 75 countries and international organisations are being asked to fund a $2.8bn reconstruction plan designed by Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, who wants a large part of the money to be channelled through the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA).
Before the donor conference, the US state department announced that Washington would contribute $300m to meet "urgent" humanitarian needs in Gaza.
US pledge
Hillary Clinton, on her first visit to the Middle East since becoming the US secretary of state, said that US aid to the Palestinians, which will include another $600m for the PA, would be part of a broader effort to achieve peace in the region.
"Only by acting now can we turn this crisis into an opportunity to move us closer to our shared goals," Clinton said in prepared remarks for the conference in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
However, she also confirmed that US funds would not be channelled through the Hamas government in Gaza.
"We have worked with the Palestinian Authority to install safeguards that will ensure our funding is only used where and for whom it is intended and does not end up in the wrong hands," she said.
"We will work with our Palestinian partners, President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad to address critical humanitarian, budgetary, security and infrastructure needs."
Saree Makdisi, the author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, told Al Jazeera that "it sure looks like more of the same" US policy and that there was no difference between Clinton's stance and that of Condoleezza Rice, her predecessor.
"The most surprising thing isn't that there's no difference, it's that there's no difference in spite of the fact that the [incoming] Israeli government has taken an even more belligerent stand" against the Palestinians and on honouring international law, he said
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This is not the first time Gaza is being rebuild, but the thing is, if the US listened to what people all over the world were saying about stopping the brutal attack, the US alone would have saved 900 million dollars! As long as an Arab baby is dying the US government will be ready to rebuild, and someone will always be ready to destroy AGAIN!
for your information, Arab are very generous and they kindly treat people and they feel the pain of others, nursing showed me how much I cared and taught me how to deal with this, not to get too emotionally involved with patients for example, but if I'm not a person who feels the pain of others the career will not change me, the change comes from within the person, I hate it that some idiots commit bombings such as those that occurred in London and I said more than once that I'm against it, this was my opinion even before becoming a nurse, you can't judge the people based on the actions of criminals, judging people is not the solution, because I can do the judging too, how would you react if I said that British seems to be none sensitive people who are selfish and self centered and cheap based on what you are saying? ( i am not saying that this is the case, I am asking an "if" question)
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