I’m reduced to a simple, “Aaarrrggghhh.”

Global donors pledge 7.4 bln dlrs for Palestinians.

PARIS (AFP) - International donors pledged 7.4 billion dollars to the Palestinians Monday at a conference described by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the “last hope” to save their government from bankruptcy.

Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad had formally asked donors meeting in Paris for 5.6 billion dollars by 2010 to help fulfil his plan to develop a viable economy for a future state.

“The real winner is the Palestinian state,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told AFP...

And the real loser is everyone else.