Feeding West Bank While Starving Gaza a Bad Recipe

Published July 4, 2007

Let's hope that we don't make the same mistake in Palestine as we did in Iraq. In Iraq, the West sought to topple Saddam Hussein's regime through sanctions and finally through military means. Our policies ultimately valued defeating Iraq's political leaders over protecting the Iraqi people from poverty and social strife.

Today, the international community is keen to support Fatah and President Abbas...