This month, there was an “International Conference in Support of the People and Economy of Darfur,” and billions of dollars were raised not just from America and Europe but also from Arab and Muslim states concerned over the war crimes — including mass murders and mass rapes — being perpetrated against the people of Darfur, most of whom are black and Muslim.

You realize, of course, that I made that up? Not the part about the terrible things happening in Darfur, that’s precisely true, but the part about international donors’ meeting on behalf of Darfurians. Scores of donors gathered instead at an “International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Economy for the Reconstruction of Gaza,” in Sharm El-Sheikh, a resort in Egypt where a total of $4.5 billion in pledges was collected.

The people of Gaza have long been receiving more aid per capita than just about any other group in the world — a high multiple of what Darfurians receive — but Gaza is in an especially sorry state these days. The reason: Gazans elected Hamas to rule them, and Hamas has vowed to exterminate Israel and, in pursuit of that goal, routinely fires missiles at Israeli towns.

  

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