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Clinton dives into Arab-Israeli peacemaking
Sun Mar 1, 2009 1:20am EST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was on her way to the Middle East and Europe on Sunday, delving into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking for the first time at an international donors conference for Gaza.
The United States is expected to pledge more than $900 million at Monday's one-day conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The funds are aimed at post-conflict recovery in Gaza after Israel's invasion in December.
Washington also wants the money to bolster Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and has stipulated no U.S. funds will go through the militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza while Abbas' Fatah movement runs the West Bank.
"I will be announcing a commitment to a significant aid package, but it will only be spent if we determine that our goals can be furthered rather than undermined or subverted," Clinton told Voice of America in an interview taped on Friday.
Human rights groups and experts say no matter how much money is offered for Gaza, it will make little difference if goods cannot get through Israeli border crossings.
"All the pledges of aid this conference is expected to produce will be worth next to nothing if the donors do not demand that Israel open the borders to commercial goods as well as humanitarian essentials," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.
After the conference in Egypt, where she will also meet European and Arab leaders, Clinton travels to Jerusalem to see Israeli politicians trying to cobble together a new government after February elections.
Palestinians are also trying to form a government.
TOUGH TIME FOR PEACEMAKING
"There is not a lot of pressure that can be applied at a time when there is a government still in formation," said Jon Alterman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
Clinton plans to meet Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish Israeli prime minister-designate who on Saturday abandoned efforts to form a broad coalition government with centrist Tzipi Livni, who has been involved in U.S.-brokered peace talks.
Livni has accused Netanyahu of insufficient commitment to the talks, and her decision not to form a government weakens Clinton's effort to kick-start the peace process her husband, former President Bill Clinton, failed to deliver on.
"This is a sensitive time in Israeli politics as they seek to form a government, but I will take the opportunity to reaffirm the strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship and talk about the best way to move peace forward," said Clinton.
Palestinian factions are taking part in Egyptian-mediated reconciliation talks and Clinton, who will travel to the West Bank, said the United States could only accept Hamas in a unity government if it met three conditions.
Those are to recognize Israel, sign on to previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements and renounce violence -- conditions Hamas has refused to accept. Continued...
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