Condoleezza Rice heeft natuurlijk gelijk, maar in totaal is er voor meer dan 7 miljard aan hulp aan de Palestijnen toegezegd door allerlei landen.
Wat de Palestijnen harder nodig hebben dan geld is iemand die ze ertoe kan bewegen naar de toekomst te kijken in plaats van het verleden, ophouden zich als de enige slachtoffers van het Midden-Oosten conflict te zien, en kansen te grijpen in plaats van op obstakels te wijzen en die als excuus te gebruiken. Wat ook dringend gewenst is, is een vriend die ze wijst op hun eigen aandeel in het conflict, op de onmogelijkheid van de 'terugkeer' van vijf miljoen vluchtelingen en hun nakomelingen, en op de schadelijkheid en perversiteit van het neerzetten van plegers van aanslagen als martelaren en ze als helden te vereren. Helaas verwacht ik een dergelijke kritische houding niet van enig Arabisch land....
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Rice says Arab states give insufficient aid to Palestinians
Agence France-Presse - 02 May, 2008
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Arab states are taking too long and not giving enough to the Palestinian cause, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters upon landing in London Thursday.
"I think that states that have resources ought to be looking not for how little they can do but how much they can do," the top US diplomat said, the day before a series of meetings in the British capital on the stalled Middle East peace process and aid to the Palestinian territories.
She did not specify which countries could do more, but a senior State Department official, who asked not to be named, said she was referring to Kuwait, Qatar and Libya.
Rice will attend a meeting of foreign ministers and representatives of the Mideast Quartet -- the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union -- Friday morning, which will be followed by talks on aid to the Palestinian territories.
In the afternoon, she will meet her counterparts from Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China to discuss Iran.
Rice is also scheduled to discuss Kosovo with her European counterparts, and to hold bilateral talks with British Foreign Minister David Milliband and with Quartet envoy Tony Blair.
After the meetings in London, she is due to set off for Israel and the West Bank, her 15th visit there since US President George W. Bush announced his intention to relaunch the Middle East peace process in July 2006.
Bush, who hosted a conference that formally restarted Middle East peace negotiations in November last year after a seven-year freeze, is to visit Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt from May 13 to 18.
www.gulfinthemedia.com/index.php?id=399215&news_type=Top&lang=en
Arab states are taking too long and not giving enough to the Palestinian cause, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters upon landing in London Thursday.
"I think that states that have resources ought to be looking not for how little they can do but how much they can do," the top US diplomat said, the day before a series of meetings in the British capital on the stalled Middle East peace process and aid to the Palestinian territories.
She did not specify which countries could do more, but a senior State Department official, who asked not to be named, said she was referring to Kuwait, Qatar and Libya.
Rice will attend a meeting of foreign ministers and representatives of the Mideast Quartet -- the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union -- Friday morning, which will be followed by talks on aid to the Palestinian territories.
In the afternoon, she will meet her counterparts from Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China to discuss Iran.
Rice is also scheduled to discuss Kosovo with her European counterparts, and to hold bilateral talks with British Foreign Minister David Milliband and with Quartet envoy Tony Blair.
After the meetings in London, she is due to set off for Israel and the West Bank, her 15th visit there since US President George W. Bush announced his intention to relaunch the Middle East peace process in July 2006.
Bush, who hosted a conference that formally restarted Middle East peace negotiations in November last year after a seven-year freeze, is to visit Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt from May 13 to 18.
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