From the rubble: the bleak reality of Gaza's reconstruction

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  The temporary has a way of becoming permanent in the Middle East.

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  The Israeli occupation of the West Bank has endured for half a century.

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  The Palestinian Authority, PA, was meant to be a five-year interim body.

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  It turned 30 last year.

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  A month after the ceasefire took hold in Gaza,

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  its two million inhabitants are starting to wonder if their despair will be permanent too.

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  Nothing has been done to rebuild a territory flattened by two years of war.

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  Arab states have drafted a reconstruction plan, but it is unlikely to start unless Hamas,

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  a Palestinian militant group, agrees to disarm.

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  It refuses.

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  With Hamas intransigent, some American and Israeli officials have begun promoting an alternative.

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  They hoped to rebuild on the other side of the yellow line,

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  the boundary between the half of Gaza controlled by Hamas and the half occupied by Israel.

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  But almost no Palestinians live there, and Arab states oppose the scheme.

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  Gazans are in dire need of homes, jobs and services, yet no workable plans exist to provide them.

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