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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Withholding aid when the new government takes over seemed politically inevitable - even if someone thought it was the best policy, aiding a government run by Hamas just wouldn't have political support. For humanitarian reasons and to try to keep a lid on in general, you can re-route some portion of the humanitarian component through relief organizations and the UN (unless you're Bush and have a visceral dislike of all things UN), but sending any through Hamas is crazy. That said, the failure to use relief organizations and the UN to keep a lid on it has had a toll.
On the other hand, withholding tax revenues owed to the government strikes me as a simple treaty/international law violation.
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Aren't the other EU nations also withholding funding? Why is this just an America thing?
