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A day after rebuffing the conference, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived on her first visit to the Middle East, where she admonished Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah for posing threats to Israel and praised the Jewish state and its "moderate" allies. She remarked in a joint statement with Israeli President Shimon Peres on 3 March: "It is important that the United States always underscore our unshakeable, durable, fundamental relationship and support for the State of Israel. I will be going from here to Yad Vashem to pay respects to the lost souls, to remember those who the Holocaust took, to lay a wreath, and to say a prayer." 



Needless to say, Clinton refused to visit Gaza, where 1.5 million people are trapped in one large concentration camp, denied access to food, medicine, and political and human rights. Does the world have the right to ask why? 



* The writer is editor of PalestineChronicle.com.