this will make Israel safer, right?

"The World Bank estimates that it [the Palestinian economy] will shrink in 2006 by 27%.

By 2008, it projects that 74% of Palestinians will be below the poverty line and 47% will be without a job."

Clearly someone needs to step up, be it the Arab League or others, lest an already poor and oppressed people are plunged even further into the depths of misery.

[Israel, Palestine, Hamas]