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The good, the bad and the ugly of USAID’s Middle East funding
Some of the agency’s funding went to programs encouraging Israeli and Palestinian coexistence, while other grants went to pro-Hamas organizations
When Project Rozana received a multimillion-dollar grant from USAID in 2022 to support its work training Israeli and Palestinian nurses side by side, the NGO’s leaders called it a chance to “move people forward positively from fear and distrust...