| War in Congo Kills 45,000 People Each Month
The study of 14,000 households across Congo between January 2006 and April 2007 found that nearly half of all the deaths were of children under the age of five, who make up only 19% of the population. "The majority of deaths have been due to infectious diseases, malnutrition and neonatal- and pregnancy-related conditions. Increased rates of disease are likely related to the social and economic disturbances caused by conflict, including disruption of health services, poor food security, deterioration of infrastructure and population displacement. Children … are particularly susceptible to these easily preventable and treatable conditions," the IRC survey says. Congo has endured two foreign invasions and protracted civil war since the aftermath of Rwanda's genocide spilled across the border in 1994 with an influx of more than a million Rwandan Hutu refugees.
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Former Ambassador to U.N. Advocates for Israel
Resolution 1701, which called for an end to the violence and destruction in southern Lebanon in the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, was not in Israel's best interests. He writes that the resolution, which was hailed by the former Assistant Secretary of State David Welch as "very important for U.S. foreign policy in the region and for the credibility of U.N. peacekeeping," created a situation in which "it became increasingly clear that there was not going to be another resolution to disarm Hezbollah, that the arms embargo was not being enforced, and that Hezbollah was rearming." In his book, Bolton's asserts that U.S. policy toward Israel must respect that "because of its location, Israel experiences the security threat almost daily, facing Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorist groups, not to mention being within range of Iranian missiles." He sums up the situation by noting that "Hamas has seized control of the Gaza Strip, fracturing the Palestinian Authority, leaving the 'former terrorists' of Fatah in control of the West Bank; Hezbollah close to overthrowing Lebanon's democratic government; and Syria increasingly under Iran's control." He does not share President Bush's optimism in the aftermath of November's Annapolis conference that a Middle East peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office.
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