Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Good point

This is from an Arab News editorial entitled "How Summits Fail to Treat the Root Cause of Mideast Confrontation." The whole thing is interesting, and the following is well said:
[...]Olmert and the international community assume that the release of frozen funds and the flow of financial donations will be instrumental in achieving prosperity in the Palestinian territories, and that the prosperity will have a moderating influence on young Palestinians. This assumes that improvement in living conditions can change perceptions, while in actual fact the opposite is true.

International donations saved the Palestinian people from starvation and made some leaders wealthy, but they do not serve to change the cultures and beliefs of “hotheads”.[...]

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